[stillafreemind]

It was a unanimous decision.

[Grunthor]

So it is perfectly ok that they destroy public property?

[ConorMacNessa]

Not to sound dense, but if he's a Mennonite, what's he doing on a tractor? Wouldn't a horse-drawn vehicle be more appropriate?



Etiam non princeps sed usque ad genua, Principis Pacis!

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[6SJ7]

Mark Walk, Mitchell County attorney, is not backing down with this ruling. He said that citations will continue to be given. In a Globe Gazette article, Walk said that the ruling only reversed the fine. He didn't seem concerned about future challenges going to higher courts. The county uses a detective to troll roads in an attempt to find people violating the ordinance. So far it has cost $2,400 for this detective. Walk is not done with the Mennonites or their steel wheels. He is thinking about an appeal of the case and sees it all winding up back in the Supreme Court.

We've got hot and cold running illegal aliens and this DA doubles down on the hunt for the dreaded Mennonites running a tractor over a paved road to go between fields.

[Cicero]

Farmers drive their tractors on the roads all the time, out in the country. How else can they get from one field to another? Unless it’s a really, really big or unusual tractor, I wouldn’t say it did the road much damage. In any case, they live there, pay taxes, and are citizens of the town. They are probably what keeps the town going. So, their reasonable needs should be accomodated.

We have tractors driving on our local roads here in Vermont, from time to time. No problem. The big cause of road damage is frost heaves. If anyone objected, it would probably be some flatlander, as they call newcomers, who moved in and immediately wanted to “improve” things.

I’m a flatlander myself, since I wasn’t born here. But I think the original citizens have a basic right to do things their way. And they usually have a lot more common sense than the newcomers.

[panaxanax]

Did everyone miss the description i.e., “steel cleats”?

These ‘steel-cleated’ wheels are like dozer tracks. They will tear hell out of pavement, which is why dozer operators lay tires down across the road when they have to move them.

Guilty. Pay the fine, but no jail for the kid.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

Every one of them should be recalled.