Posted on 10/29/2013 9:39:21 AM PDT by Eagle Bomba
"No officers were injured during the shooting," Samples said, but "we did have one officer receive a minor injury, not related to the gunfire."
Though police were guarded with details surrounding the case, eyewitnesses claim the shootout was prompted by a code enforcement operation involving an old, rusted and inoperable van owned by Pryor.
Witnesses say a Statesboro Code Compliance officer reported to Pryor's home to seize the van, which has sat idle in the yard for several years.
"He has had the van forever. They have been asking for years for him to move it. He signed some papers, went back into the house, and then all of a sudden everything happened," Roberts said. "The van had a lot of sentimental value for him. He wanted to get it fixed." A tow truck, with the van loaded, was still on the scene hours after the shooting.
The city's Code Compliance department, under the umbrella of Planning and Development, is responsible for "ensuring that the city's physical environment is maintained through the enforcement of codes related to building and property maintenance, sanitation, zoning, etc.," according to the city of Statesboro website. "Code compliance staff is responsible for investigating complaints which may often be categorized as ‘nuisances' including: vacant and dilapidated buildings, overgrown vegetation, front yard parking, abandoned vehicles, litter, etc. The activities of code compliance staff are intended to improve the community's standard of living and enhance property values throughout the city."
Samples said he could neither confirm nor deny the witness accounts, or release the names and job statuses of officers involved in the shooting.
(Excerpt) Read more at statesboroherald.com ...
Maybe that was his savings account. Around here they will give you up to $200 per ton for those things and haul away at no cost.
If I line them up single file they can do the Thorazine shuffle
In a libertarian world that may in fact be true.
Here in realville, we have zoning ordinances. I didn't vote for them, they were in place before I was born and most municipalities have ordinances about abandoned vehicles, yes even in the countryside.
So if your neighbor decided that he wanted to open a slaughterhouse next door to you, you're OK with that ?
BS, you'd be the first one screaming at the town board meeting.
/johnny
I saw some video of the neighborhood and his neighbors from another news story. Poor, black, suburban/rural. Another solution should have been reached. From the looks of it though I don’t think the neighbors could have bought it. And as per the article, it had sentimental value to him so it’s unlikely he would have parted with it easily. As demonstrated by the gunfire. Haha.
Not in this case.
Houston doesn't have any zoning ordinances. The only place more capitalistic was Hong Kong.
Fixed it for you.
Your exactly right. The old buzzard made a very bad and dangerous decision and was killed because of his own stupidity.
The lesson is, if you are going to open fire on a group of code enforcers and cops trying to seize your property on your land, don’t miss. Success is defined by taking at least two of the statist bastards with you.
That appears to be a late 70’s early 80’s Ford LTD in the driveway behind the gate. The van must have been in the back yard.
Look to the left of the gate. The van is mostly hidden by the shrubs/vegetation.
I have lived in plenty of rural areas and all of them had some sort of zoning ordinances. Either on building codes or on taxes. Your property was either residential, commercial or agricultural, then further subdivisions of R1 (single family) and R2 (multiple residences) and R3 (mobile homes).
C1 is your standard gas station or small store C2 is for light manufacruring and more dense retail like a strip mall, and is goes on from there. If those don’t qualify as zoning ordinances then you are further out to lunch than your handle implies. Most ordinances are driven by insurance underwriters, while a few are driven by nimby types. I don’t advocate these, I accept them as the reality and adjust my choice of location for a home based on thise facts. It not just ordinances. There are deed restrictions and covenants written into many properties these days and you must read the fine print before you sign the title transfer.
This guy decided that that POS van was worth more than his life and that is a shame, but, I would be willing to bet that the ordinance about abandoned cars has been on the books longer than he has lived there. Some towns enforce those codes more vigorously than others but this was the wrong hill to make a stand on.
>> Stop the hate.
Stop telling people what to think and speak about.
The ‘hate’ accusation is for the lazy and the liars.
Nonsense....Houston has as many ordinances as I have ever seen anywhere.
They are here: http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=10123
While it might make you feel better to talk out your arse, your mouth ought to know better than to say $h!t like that. Your statement is a lie.
I defy either of you to show me an incorporated town anywhere in the U.S. that does not have at least one ordinance on the books.
commievill my arse... REALVILLE. And in the real world, incorporated towns have zoning ordinances. I don't have to like them, and if I oppose them then I can go to the town board meetings and complain, and or run for that same town board to get them repealed.
Just say it like this, “I don’t advocate for Socialism, I just accept it as reality.”
Then go sit in a corner.
The car wasn’t abandoned, was behind a fence, nearly completely hidden by bushes, and his property was the nicest on his stretch of road.
Kinda makes your statement seem like a desperate attempt at justifying taking someone else’s property by force...
You aren’t doing that... Are you?
Only on days that end in “y”.
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