Sheriff's order destroys home

[Syxx_Killer]

http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/597604.html

I feel bad for the family but every bad decision that could have been made in moving the trailer was made. I can't believe such a large family could live in a trailer. There'd be no room for anyone.

[DeepIron]

On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006," maintains that anybody who thinks it's a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can't exactly complain when things go wrong.

Yeah, "dick" is right... I hope someone will step forward, help these people and litigate his worthless ass into oblivion... :shifty:

[AVGWarhawk]

Barton, a grandma at 35 with gold streaks :o What the....a grandma at 35. Started dem daughters young an'cha Barton? I find it odd no one lent a hand to help move it off the road.

[DeepIron]

I'm nonplussed. I was made a grampa at 34 (I'm 51 now)... My step-daughter got pregnant at 16 and my grandson Cory, turns 18 next March... :smug:

[MothBalls]

On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006," maintains that anybody who thinks it's a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can't exactly complain when things go wrong.

Yeah, "dick" is right... I hope someone will step forward, help these people and litigate his worthless ass into oblivion... :shifty:

Read the whole story. The Sheriff is not the bad guy here. If anything, he did all he could to help.

This story reinforces the point made during the first 5 minutes of the movie Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/). (I thought the movie sucked, but the part where they explained the damage being done to the gene pool by stupid people made a lot of sense).

It's a shame what happened, but it was the result of her bad decisions, not the Sheriff's.

[DeepIron]

On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006," maintains that anybody who thinks it's a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can't exactly complain when things go wrong.
Yeah, "dick" is right... I hope someone will step forward, help these people and litigate his worthless ass into oblivion... :shifty:
Read the whole story. The Sheriff is not the bad guy here. If anything, he did all he could to help.

This story reinforces the point made during the first 5 minutes of the movie Idiocracy (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387808/). (I thought the movie sucked, but the part where they explained the damage being done to the gene pool by stupid people made a lot of sense).

It's a shame what happened, but it was the result of her bad decisions, not the Sheriff's.Err... I did read the whole story... And there were certainly other options availble. PLUS, I personally didn't care for the sheriff's wiseass remarks...

So, do you think that someone who paid "a farmer with a tractor" $200.00 had the resources to have made the move another way? Do you think that having two bulldozers push the building off the road was in any way an "intelligent" decision?

I drive a semi for a living and I have seen trailer houses and large trailers broken down and blocking roads before, some secondary roads, some major highways. I've NEVER seen the police or sheriff order in a couple of 'dozers the way this backwater jerk did...

But, asked what he would have done differently, Garrett said, "I'd have knocked it over sooner."Yeah... real intelligence at work here.

Without money, Barton said, she's relying on friends to dismantle and move the trash. At least two of the men working Tuesday said they took off time from their jobs on horse farms to help and are working with hammers, a sledge hammer and a chain saw. The Red Cross paid for a hotel room for a few days, but now Barton is on her own. The family, a mishmash of real kin and unofficially adopted kids, teens and young adults, are crammed into a smaller trailer while Barton tries to sort through it all.Yep... That's what I call real problem solving... :nope:

[bookworm_020]

http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/597604.html

I feel bad for the family but every bad decision that could have been made in moving the trailer was made. I can't believe such a large family could live in a trailer. There'd be no room for anyone.

There now in a "smaller tralier":o getting them in must be like a game of tetris!

[AVGWarhawk]

I'm nonplussed. I was made a grampa at 34 (I'm 51 now)... My step-daughter got pregnant at 16 and my grandson Cory, turns 18 next March... :smug:

Dang...you did not waste any time did ya?

[Letum]

At least he didn't use explosives.

[DeepIron]

I'm nonplussed. I was made a grampa at 34 (I'm 51 now)... My step-daughter got pregnant at 16 and my grandson Cory, turns 18 next March... :smug:
Dang...you did not waste any time did ya?Heck... that girl has put me through the wringer for 20 years.. ever since I married her mom... :lol:

[Digital_Trucker]

I'm nonplussed. I was made a grampa at 34 (I'm 51 now)... My step-daughter got pregnant at 16 and my grandson Cory, turns 18 next March... :smug:

Damn, I thought I was doing bad becoming a Grandpa at 39. I guess I shoulda started a little sooner:D.

[Tango589]

Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.

I'm still slightly unsure as to the relevance of this particular nugget of information...:D

[Letum]

Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.
I'm still slightly unsure as to the relevance of this particular nugget of information...:D

you are right. That is just surreal. :doh:

[DeepIron]

Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.
I'm still slightly unsure as to the relevance of this particular nugget of information...:D
you are right. That is just surreal. :doh:Nah... C'mon y'all... That there's NEWS 'round heah! Right up thar with stealin' cheery pies off'n winder sills...

[AVGWarhawk]

I'm nonplussed. I was made a grampa at 34 (I'm 51 now)... My step-daughter got pregnant at 16 and my grandson Cory, turns 18 next March... :smug:
Dang...you did not waste any time did ya?Heck... that girl has put me through the wringer for 20 years.. ever since I married her mom... :lol:

I got two of my own DI. :o 10 and 13.

[bookworm_020]

Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.
I'm still slightly unsure as to the relevance of this particular nugget of information...:D

Just some padding so she can get up to the word count required!:D

[Tango589]

Jim Gaunce, an amiable great-grandfather, watched most of it unfold from his rocker in a sunny living room with windows so spotless birds frequently thud into the glass while trying to fly through.
I'm still slightly unsure as to the relevance of this particular nugget of information...:D

Just some padding so she can get up to the word count required!:D

That would explain it!:know:

[Hylander_1314]

Heck, I'm 45, and my son's 23, and I'm still not a grampa! :x My daughter is only 16 so it will still be some time yet, but I'm lookin' for a new fishin' buddy since my babysister passed away last January.

[Syxx_Killer]

I originally found this topic on another forum I frequent. On that forum, someone signed up to say that they set up a forum to discuss local topics and such including this one. You need to register to be able to use the forum, but some members at the forum I frequent posted some quotes. They are enlightening to say the least. I have even less sympathy for this woman and her family than I did before. :x

http://www.grooveshark.com/

Here are the quotes:

This is just another story distorted by the media.As far as i can tell no one has bothered to tell that this family is taken care of by working family's thru wic,and food stamps.Nobody has mentioned that she owns another mobile home.Nobody has mentioned that she has a rebel flag flying at her two storyhouse on north broadway,i would be happy for the lexington paper or cnn to come do an interview there.Nobody mentioned the fact that they had 9 hours to get their belongings out of the home before anything happened.Nobody has said anything about the food thrown out on the ground and wasted because she knew that the state would re-fill her food stamp card {which they did},and their wic card.As i see it this woman thought the laws didn't effect her as they do everyone else.She got exactly what she paid for.It is so sad that people will donate to her just because of a few tears shed on national tv.She would like everyone to believe all those poor pitiful kids are hers when in fact most of them belong to her sister who is going to jail and can no longer take care of them.Really a nice family,so everyone get out those hard earned dollars and make sure this woman never has to work for anything, as for me she gets not one more cent than the state already takes from my pay-check.
Thank you Boozy! How else could this have been solved? For all of you who think that there is a better solution, let's hear it! He could not order 68 be rebuilt around her trailer!! I think that he did what he thought was right when he had tried everything that could be tried. He did not have to even try! He could have arrested them all and ordered the trailer moved in ten minutes, but no he waited NINE HOURS in freezing rain!!! Do you think that if something like this had happened in Lexington on New Circle they would have waited nine hours and not arrested her? No they would have arrested her and Pancake on the scene and pushed it out of traffic, destroying it or not! She should be thanking him for letting her remove her things before they tried anything!
This is from an alleged eyewitness:

The 35 year old convicted felon grandmother and her 20 somthing boyfriend have been living in the Headquarters trailer park for so time. She was managing the park, for pay? I am not sure. Both of them are not employed or at least they havn't been for some time. The poor helpless woman has opened her home's to help aid people like convicted drug dealers hiding from the law, persons under indicment for welfare fraud etc. Now that we have established the background for this story allow me to enlighten you to facts..
1. Mrs. Barton contacted, a professional trailer moving company to move here trailer. They told her it would cost them 600.00 dollars. But they would have to inspect the home and the home would have to be empty. Mrs. Barton and her sister in law or what ever who is currently out on bond for welfare fraud for using her food stamp card to buy drugs put the axles under the 20 something trailer herself. At 2:30 pm she contacted a licensed tow truck operator and asked for him to move the trailer. He told her he would do it for 300.00 dollars but it was to late to move it before dark and would be glad to do it the following day in the daylight. She then contacted Pancake and he agreed to do it for 200.00 dollars and the events begin. A fugitive wanted by law enforcement agreed to help her get the trailer ready. at or around 4:00pm the farm tractor was hooked to the trailer and over the hill they went. The intelligent owner locked the door on the home so her lizards, snakes, raccoon, dogs and cats wouldn't jump ship. she left all here stuff inside the trailer (which added weight) and away the happy couple go. The farm tractor with the trailer in tow and pancake at the wheel head towards US 68 via headquarters road. less than 500 yards from the start of this saga a friend stops them and informs them that the tires are wobbling and look loose. The owners of this mint condition 20 something trailer gave the order to thier chosen captain the expert pancake to drive on. The circus the turn left onto US.68 and the first tire falls off, then driving on the next three tires fall off and the driver attempts to pull the now crippled home over to the side of the road. The now tireless mansion on wheels has slid sideways and the body has sliped from the rotted frame. The once beautiful 5000.00 dollar mansion on wheels, became a bull dozer. The able captain in his attempt to get the home off the roadway has turned it in to a earth moving machine that buried it self breaking the expertly installed axles and blocking US 68 in one of the most dangerous sections of the highway. With darkness upon them and the rain falling the group of wirey unemployed pill popping moving crew the owner included begain to determine who should hide before law enforcement arrived. Deputy Sheriff Ben Buckler gets the call but is in Cynthiana at the Harrison Memorial Hospital with his youngest son who was being seen by a Doctor. Sheriff Dick Garrett takes the call and arrives on scene. Sheriff Garrett knowing the dangers approaching with the darkness and traffic, contacted Deputy Buckler and had him respond. Deputy Buckler arrived and so did the rain. The sheriff contacted Roberts wrecker service and told the owner that it would be best to remove the items from the home. While waiting for the wrecker service the owner just walked around smoking cigarettes and complaining. She was told again by Deputy Buckler that she needed to remove the articles from the home in case the trailer fell apart. The wrecker arrived and the attemps began, the wrecker operator stated, the frame was rotten and the body was detached every time he tried to pull it it was pulling apart. Sheriff Garrett contacted another person to bring a portable welder and they attempted to reinforce the frame and that failed, they used air bags to try and lift up the home and place to wheels on and that failed becuase it pushed the frame through the floor. At that time the wrecker driver informed the Sheriff that he could not remove the home. Sheriff Garrett informed the owners and told the to remove the items. I watched as the family and friends removed every thing from the home including the numrous pets and all the food 5 trucks and one cattle trailer provided by Pancake Myers were used. When the last truck load was loaded the Sheriff asked Mr. Gaunce if he had everything he wanted and needed out of the home. He responded, I guess so and the tractor began to try and push the home out of the roadway. Again failure and the home had to be removed. As for the total loss that is bull **** she got he stuff and she has another trailer in her name were she claims residence and it was not the one stuck in the road. (you know that you must report all income in the home right ?) More to Come!!!!!
Why couldn't (or didn't) the Sheriff.... CALL ANOTHER TOWING SERVICE SINCE THE FIRST ONE HAD 2 FLATS. Isn't THAT the bottom line when it comes to an unexpected accidental situation-remove all parties from immediate harm 1stTiki2 - the big heavy duty wreckers WERE called to the scene from Lexington. They tried to move it, but the tongue of the trailer separated from the trailer. Other things were tried, including inflating giant air bags underneath the trailer - the trailer was so rusted out that the bags simply split the floor of the trailer when they were inflated. This trailer was in no condition to be moved in the first place. When it first started going down the road, there were pieces falling off it...those moving it would simply stop and toss them off onto the side of the road. That should have been a clue right there.
There is a lot more that happened than was reported in the article (as usual for the media, they only include what makes a good story). But the sheriff and the county did everything possible to move it, but it was simply falling apart more and more.
The family was given lots of time to move their belongings out, including the dog, cat, lizard, snake and more that they LEFT IN THE TRAILER while it was being moved...they filled three truckloads with their personal belongings before the trailer was pushed aside, and the sheriff repeatedly asked them if they had everything they wanted before it was pushed off the road.
It's sad the media doesn't report all the facts....