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N.C. Man Told to Remove Hanging Motorcycle
Yahoo! News | AP ^ | 4/11/05

Posted on 04/11/2005 2:53:53 PM PDT by LibWhacker

RALEIGH, N.C. - Harley-Davidson enthusiast Richard Woodworth has an unusual piece of art in his back yard, and it's causing him quite a headache with the city of Raleigh. It's the gnarled metal of a wrecked motorcycle hanging in a tree.

In February, a city inspector walked on Woodworth's wooded property and decided the dangling metal fell under Raleigh's code definition of a nuisance motor vehicle. But even though Woodworth lives a mile outside the city limits and has posted no-trespassing signs, he falls under some city code enforcement.

For Woodworth, that meant receiving a city inspections letter telling him to pay a $100 administrative inspection fee and demanding that he remove the bicycle.

His community was scooped up into the city's extraterritorial jurisdiction, known as ETJ, about 20 years ago.

"I don't like the city coming here and telling me what to do with my property," Woodworth said. "I knew for a fact that I did not live in the city. I did not know I lived in the ETJ. They've got more to do than hassle me."

For now, Woodworth is considering whether to put up a fence around his art or remove the bike's motor so it is no longer considered a motor vehicle.

"Just because it looks funny doesn't mean we ought to be telling people how to run their lives and what they ought to do on their own property," Regan said. "Just because it's hanging doesn't mean it's going to fall."


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: govwatch; hanging; harleydavidson; motorcycle; propertyrights; suzuki
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Love the way Yahoo! and/or the AP have put this under "strange news." Yep, it sure is strange that property owners believe that they -- and not the COMMUNE-ists -- are the real owners.
1 posted on 04/11/2005 2:53:54 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: martin_fierro

Hooligan Ping!


2 posted on 04/11/2005 3:00:56 PM PDT by pt17
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To: LibWhacker
What if it fell and conked someone on the head like a coconut?
3 posted on 04/11/2005 3:04:05 PM PDT by Imaverygooddriver (ALL YOU BASE ARE BELONG TO US)
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To: pt17

A Red-Neck Frenchie.


4 posted on 04/11/2005 3:04:36 PM PDT by auggy (http://home.bellsouth.net/p/PWP-DownhomeKY /// Check out My USA Photo album & Fat Files)
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To: LibWhacker

He should build a catapult and fling the bike into town.


5 posted on 04/11/2005 3:05:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (I'm apathetic but really don't care.)
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To: Imaverygooddriver
What if it fell and conked someone on the head like a coconut?

I'd say that would be just punishment for trespassing on someone's property that was clearly signed as such.

6 posted on 04/11/2005 3:06:50 PM PDT by Bloody Sam Roberts (Remember that great love and great achievements involve great risk)
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To: LibWhacker

Heh... that would tick me off too I don't blame the guy. I lived outside city limits or any jurisdiction for over 20 years. 4 years ago I moved into a town. Dang. I'm moving out again too. I can't believe how many stupid regulations all the city folk have to put up with!


7 posted on 04/11/2005 3:07:09 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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To: Imaverygooddriver

. . . then that would demonstrate that they had been trespassing! [Yet another term, like "private property", that the left does not understand or respect.]


8 posted on 04/11/2005 3:07:23 PM PDT by the_Watchman
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To: Imaverygooddriver
What if it fell and conked someone on the head like a coconut?

Then that someone might just get shot for trespassing.

9 posted on 04/11/2005 3:08:03 PM PDT by Wneighbor
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To: LibWhacker

Paging Carl Drega....


10 posted on 04/11/2005 3:08:26 PM PDT by Doomonyou (Molon Labe! FMCDH!)
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To: LibWhacker
a city inspector walked on Woodworth's wooded property

Somebody with waaaaaaay too much time on his hands.

11 posted on 04/11/2005 3:10:00 PM PDT by Tom Bombadil
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To: Imaverygooddriver

Exactly! That's why nosy little COMMUNE-ists shouldn't be snooping around in my trees: They might fall out and conk me on the head like a coconut!


12 posted on 04/11/2005 3:10:29 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Imaverygooddriver

You forgot your (sarcasm) tag.


13 posted on 04/11/2005 3:11:43 PM PDT by zoyd (I'm with the government. We're going to make you like your neighbor.)
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To: Wneighbor
I can't believe how many stupid regulations all the city folk have to put up with!

I know, I had to get rid of all those painted white tires that I had carefully turned inside-out. Darn they were purdy.

14 posted on 04/11/2005 3:11:57 PM PDT by leadpenny
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To: Wneighbor

I think we should all move out of town and hang motorcycles in our trees -- just to mock the nosy bums! Ring the damn town with trees full of beat-up old motorcycles, lol!


15 posted on 04/11/2005 3:13:39 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker

This is the first I’ve heard of “extraterritorial jurisdiction”.


16 posted on 04/11/2005 3:15:36 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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To: R. Scott

Has a UN-ish ring to it, doesn't it?


17 posted on 04/11/2005 3:22:35 PM PDT by abigailsmybaby
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To: LibWhacker

2 counts against him:owning a dreaded internal combustion engine and not wearing a helmet around his place just to be safe.
I'll bet he smokes, too.


18 posted on 04/11/2005 3:25:42 PM PDT by Rakkasan1 (The MRS wanted to go to an expensive place to eat so I took her to the gas station.)
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To: Rakkasan1

No Trespassing!

Survivors will be prosecuted.........


19 posted on 04/11/2005 3:26:52 PM PDT by umgud
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To: Maynard G. Krebbs

Yep.


20 posted on 04/11/2005 3:28:17 PM PDT by R. Scott (Humanity i love you because when you're hard up you pawn your Intelligence to buy a drink.)
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