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Sheriff orders trailer home destroyed after it blocks traffic
Frances Barton, who paid $5,000 for the single-wide and was hoping to move to a little piece of land she was buying on a $250-a-month land contract, is sick about it. She spent more than an hour Tuesday standing and crying next to a 10-foot-high pile of wooden walls and pink insulation, sometimes cradling her daughter's doll. (Kentucky.com)November 19, 2008 | Permalink
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Nice! I JUST read this a few minutes ago, when my brother posted it on facebook. I ran right over here to see if you would catch it. :)
Yes, I'm from KY, the current story's State of Shame. Please be kind... not all of us are dirty cherry pie stealers.
Posted by: Fortissima | Nov 19, 2008 2:05:32 PM
"On the other hand, Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006,"
Oh I WISHHHHHHHHHH!
(this message brought to you courtesy of No. 14, but not no.17 who think she should just invest in latex futures)
Posted by: nellagain | Nov 19, 2008 2:09:56 PM
Hmmm...
Well, the Sheriff sounds like a complete power tripping ass. He says he's sorry it happened, but the truth is the whole thing probably gave him a chubby.
But - he is right in one respect. The family was incredibly foolish in all this. I'm just not sure if the punishment fits the crime. People are incredibly stupid - not everyone gets their home destroyed as punishment.
Oh and there's a special place in hell for the hauler.
Posted by: elchampino | Nov 19, 2008 2:15:16 PM
Chris "Pancake" Meyers told her, she said, that he had more than 13 years' experience in hauling things and that he had the proper permits and insurance for the move.
That really isn't a very masculine nickname. I wonder what was wrong with 'Chris' that he went with 'Pancake' instead.
Posted by: Reno | Nov 19, 2008 2:33:25 PM
McCain voters, everyone of them. Trust me on that.
Posted by: Hugh G. Sass | Nov 19, 2008 2:40:07 PM
Well, that was an interesting story.
What I don't get is that the sheriff said he was sorry it had happened but at the same time says he would've knocked it over sooner AND he's not offering to help clean up the mess.
Everybody in this story sounds a little nuts to me. There was going to be 12 folks living in that home? What-the-hell?
Oh, and Reno, I know a fat guy who is proud of his nickname, "dough-boy."
Posted by: twerp | Nov 19, 2008 2:43:23 PM
How can four adults and eight kids live in one trailer?!
Also, "The family, a mishmash of real kin and unofficially adopted kids, teens and young adults..." How can someone have unofficially adopted kids? Where did these kids come from?!
Posted by: Dave | Nov 19, 2008 2:56:22 PM
lest you think this only happens in Kentucky, there was a very similar story in Los Angeles on the coast highway not too long ago. Because the freeway was being worked on while they were moving the thing, they had to take a detour and it was abandoned cause it wouldn't fit at a certain point. It was causing huge traffic problems and I think some vagrants were living there for a while...
The city had it moved and sent the family a HUGE check for the cost.
Posted by: | Nov 19, 2008 3:13:15 PM
nellagain;
Had no idea that #14 had such a driven and colorful past. Was Hawaii and DD delight a before or after anomaly?
Posted by: thomas | Nov 19, 2008 3:21:48 PM
Reno;
Have any nicknames you'd like to forget, dear lady?
Dare to share!
Posted by: thomas | Nov 19, 2008 3:24:28 PM
Whoa... did anyone else catch this??
"Barton, a grandma at 35..."
She and her daughter were likely mothers before age 20 - how much hope is there for the grandchildren?? I envision a similar scene for the next generation.
Posted by: SkyGrrl | Nov 19, 2008 3:35:29 PM
Wow, gotta side with the Sheriff on this one. If these people were any smarter, there wouldn't be 12 of them living in a single trailer home I suppose.
Posted by: Sean | Nov 19, 2008 3:46:15 PM
Last week, I made a crack about trailers, and someone took umbrage--it's stories like this that cause me to make them--this really has it all--grandmother at 35, someone whose nickname is Pancake, 12 people crammed in a single-wide. I could go on, but I won't. I rest my case.
Posted by: troschne | Nov 19, 2008 3:58:01 PM
Thomas, a certain someone used to call me Babycakes, which I really didn't care for but was apparently intended as a compliment. I like all my other nicknames!
Posted by: Reno | Nov 19, 2008 4:05:56 PM
"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."
Was this reporter being paid by the word?
Posted by: msgelter | Nov 19, 2008 4:29:43 PM
This whole thing reads like a really bad comedy movie script from about the "Smokey and the Bandit" era. I can't think of one more raidneck, baccy-chawin', white trash trailer folk joke to squeeze in to that story.
Posted by: NitroPress | Nov 19, 2008 4:33:00 PM
Yay, a contribution from me makes it. I'm sure I wasn't the only one though...
Posted by: Moose | Nov 19, 2008 4:34:05 PM
What's the difference between the trailer trash and sheriff in this story and the "highbrows" who comment at the OS&RR? The people in this story have pathetic lives, the commenters are just pathetic. At least the former have a life, the rest of you should get one. Unless in some twisted way you fanasize that spending your life reading about and critisizing others is a life....OMG, I've become one of you!!!
Seriously, there has to be something more productive to do. On that note, when I find the comments more disgusting than the stories posted at this site, it's time for me to quit lurking and move on.
I'm posting anonymously so you can salvage your self-"respect" by complaining about my posting anonymously rather than addressing the point. Have fun.
Posted by: | Nov 19, 2008 6:48:38 PM
When I worked as a wrestler down in Tuscaloosa,I used to go by the name Buzz "Twinkie" Carbondale ... it doesn't really have any significance - other than the BTC tie in.
And another thing,35 year old grandmothers were a dime a dozen there too and just about every Deputy Sheriff was a wiry chainsmoker (when he wasn't a fat drunk,that is).
See,everywhere you go it's pretty much the same,with some exceptions.
Posted by: the man in the trout mask | Nov 19, 2008 6:58:22 PM
I'm posting anonymously so you can salvage your self-"respect" by complaining about my posting anonymously rather than addressing the point. Have fun.
No, you're posting anonymously because you're a coward, and we're better off once the door hits you in the ass.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Take the other anon trash with you, please.
Thx.
Posted by: wWolf | Nov 19, 2008 7:12:53 PM
I wonder if that anonymous poster took the survey?
Posted by: many | Nov 19, 2008 7:22:04 PM
Yeah, right, posting anon to preserve our self-respect. Sure.
Look, we might get a little judgmental here, but go reread that story - there's not one sentence that couldn't have come from a really bad "Dukes of Hazzard" episode, or worse. There's less judgment than observation in that - observation that the guy who wrote the story couldn't let a clee-shay go past.
Posted by: NitroPress | Nov 19, 2008 7:28:04 PM
Try living in rural Southern Oregon. There was an article in the Medford Tribune about a 38 year old great grand father!
Posted by: nellbearfoot | Nov 19, 2008 7:28:43 PM
Umbrage. ~snickers~
Posted by: | Nov 19, 2008 8:46:07 PM
^ That were me.
Posted by: Toothless Wino | Nov 19, 2008 8:48:00 PM
