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...

[AVGWarhawk]

Barton, a grandma at 35 with gold streaks

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...

[MothBalls]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

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

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. (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]

Originally Posted by MothBalls

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. (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...

[bookworm_020]

Originally Posted by 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.

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

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by 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...

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

[Letum]

At least he didn't use explosives.

[DeepIron]

Originally Posted by AVGWarhawk

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...

[Digital_Trucker]

Originally Posted by 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...

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

[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...

[Letum]

Originally Posted by Tango589

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

you are right. That is just surreal.

[DeepIron]

Originally Posted by Letum

you are right. That is just surreal.

Nah... C'mon y'all... That there's NEWS 'round heah! Right up thar with stealin' cheery pies off'n winder sills...

[AVGWarhawk]

Originally Posted by DeepIron

Heck... that girl has put me through the wringer for 20 years.. ever since I married her mom...

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