City folks may need to stay in the city.

[dswancutt]

Back in the 70's a fella bought bunch of land out in the boonies and built a nice race track. Then some developer folks bought some of this cheap land and started building houses. Folks who bought the houses next to a race track started complaining, put mufflers on them loud things, too much noise coming and going after races, dust, and entirely too many people drinking beer watchin racin and having a good time. It's gotta stop.

They pitched in for an attorney and after a few years the track owner went broke. I was by there a few years back, all they have is 40 year old homes with an abandoned race track for a yard ornament.

All I know is if I did not want to live next to a race track I wouldn't buy there.

And I lived in the big city for the last 20 years of my career. Hated it, loud cars, neighbors loudly crowing about something, one guy had 4 large dogs penned up, the barnyard smelt better. Cats, cats and more cats, come do their business in my wife's flower gardens and dig stuff up.

The home next to us was foreclosed, 7 years old, a woman bought it to flip it, the bubble had burst and she was stuck with renting it. She could find the deadbeats. The next to last one had 4 or more cats. She let them run loose, city code said no pets are to run loose. Folks called on her garden ruining cats, the dog pound guy showed up, he was 5'5" by 5'5". He tried to bend over to pick something up and couldn't bend over. He feigned stupidity on how to catch a cat. Maybe he was not faking it. My wife said we're going to the farm store. Bought a large havahart, she asked what to bait it with, I said a 50 cent can of cat food partially opened. He was in the cage in the AM. She called he who can't bend over to come get it. He couldn't bend over to pick up the cage. Wife picked it up and offloaded public cat enemy #1 in the pound truck cage. She said he was beaming, like perhaps when he actually showed up with an outlaw cat his boss might be impressed.

My wife said the lady came running out yelling is that my cat. She looked in the cage and said give him to me, the dog/cat deputy said nope you have to pay the fine and then pick him up, he doesn't have a rabies tag, we do that and charge you too. She never said a thing to my wife.

She picked the cat up and kept them inside.

Shame we legally couldn't trap her and hand her over to the cat sheriff.

The exact same thing happened in the town of Rolla Mo where I grew up. They put up a race track at the fairgrounds, neighbors complained and it was abandoned.

 

[HOUSTON RICK]

Posted by Yogi:

Aloha,

When the Wife retires in 2018, we may move to Texas Hill Country.

We would love to have a neighbor with a shooting range as long as we can shoot on it too.

I'm hoping to have enough acres to have my own rifle range.

So if anyone wants us for neighbors let us know where.

"Ditto" and you can have roosters, when I am retired too, I will not care!

 

[kaaskop49]

A few years ago here in Corpus--the city council decided to make a law against Horses being inside city limits--but nothing said about pigs, turkeys,chickens and such. I guess they had one too many complaints of the horses leaving stuff on the street as they were being ridden down? I knew a lady who still rode a horse to work--but now she cant due to the new law. She kept her horse in her backyard--never had a complaint from any neighbors. Now she is forced to keep it at some stables located several miles away.

Just like some misguided, know-it-all folks want to do to our guns: have them kept locked up several miles away. For starters. While Clark County cannot be considered rural, there has been a mad dash of late to fill in every isolated open enclave with more and more houses. Build while the buildin's good. But the 'buildin' is not good as the water supply hovers near perilous and more homes only make it worse.

The area our range sits on in the NW valley is coveted by large-scale developers and we have to be constantly alert to their attempts to obtain it 'by hook or by crook...' to build more houses. And in many cases, we're seeing the same urban approach/philosophy to deal with existing conditions that are not really problems except in the eyes of "newbies:: pass feel-good restrictive legislation.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

 

[riverrat38]

I don't know much about pig farming, but I grew up with commercial fisherman.

Best,
Rick

 

[Frank46]

Used to shoot at a long island range with a few friends. Showed up one day and was told that they were closed until further notice. When I first started going there no houses. Dirt roads with just enough room to pass someone coming in the opposite direction. Brookhaven was the name. Few years later they re opened on a military property. All sorts of deflectors to catch stray bullets and felt like you were shooting in a box. Moved to Louisiana and have about 4.5 acres. Critters all over the place rabbits, snakes,armadillos, possums,owls you name it. Been here 20 years and wouldn't move at all. Frank

 

[Donn]

After the "Incursion" into Cambodia in the spring of 1970, it got quiet in the northern Me Kong Delta-real quiet. In fact, we all got real edgy-worse than usual, and sleep wouldn't come without the comforting sound of outgoing 105's, scattered small arms, and those wonderful aircraft melodies. It sounds funny to some, I'm sure, but it is amazing what becomes the "normal."

Ain't that the truth. I've seen guys sleep like babies thru outgoing arty and distant B-52 strikes that caused their racks to skitter across the floor like water bugs. The same guys were wide awake and on the deck before the first incoming round impacted.

 

[Rogue Wizard]

Yep,... been there. I own a horse facility with a barn, arena and tool-shed. The house is 160 yrs old so it's been here when nothing else was around. They built a "Gated community" on the other side of the ridge. The private drive is about a 1/2 mile down the road. A couple of years ago, a BMW pulls up and out comes this city babe hotter than heck. She is yelling that my dogs have taken her foo foo poodle ( leather jacket and all). I told her I have two dogs and they stay on my property (dobermans). She then "instructs me" that I need to shoot those dogs and find her poodle. My inner self was thinking I need to tell her to get her lil arse back in the car and get off my property... but I played along. I asked her if the "dogs" were kinda small and looked a little like a German Shepard,... only brown. She lights back up and says yes and that I need to go shoot them and get her foo-foo back. My response was ,... "lady, you don't TELL me to do anything. You ask,...politely. Second,... those aren't dogs... those are coy-wolves and they are wild. Your foo-foo is their breakfast by now. You need to go buy another dog,... AND, when you let it out.... put it in a fenced run or keep a rifle nearby so you defend your foo-foo. Oh,... and welcome to the country. "

 

[Skeet 028]

My response was ,... "lady, you don't TELL me to do anything. You ask,...politely. Second,... those aren't dogs... those are coy-wolves and they are wild. Your foo-foo is their breakfast by now. You need to go buy another dog,... AND, when you let it out.... put it in a fenced run or keep a rifle nearby so you defend your foo-foo. Oh,... and welcome to the country. "

Love that.really love that.

As stated I lived on the Eastern Shore of Md. on a small farm. Some city folk moved in across the road. One day I was shootin some grackles..defending my sweet corn so to speak. After a bit they quit flying in. Put the shotgun up against the barn..went to get the tractor to mow ditches. Cop pulls up in the yard..Said Hi I'm trooper so and so..Said pleased to metcha..what can I do for you?? He kinda looked embarrassed and said..well they had a report of gun fire in the area..Had I heard any?? I said..yeah..I heard gunfire! He looked at me with this incredulous look on his face and asked if I knew where it was.. Pointed to the 20 or so dead grackles and he said...oh ****..I knew who had called the Po-Leece so I told him..I thought it was legal for me to shoot at home but to go tell the city lady that it is ok for me to shoot on my own place..and that I didn't call the Po-Leece when they were setting off fireworks 3 nights before at 0200 hours...and to let her know fireworks were not legal (in Md) to use. That evening she and her husband were up at the house apologizing all over themselves..I think that trooper enjoyed that part of it.

 

[LittleCooner]

For the last 20 years I have made the quote many times "We will one day regulate ourselves out of existence as a society" I stand by that comment, as we always pass regulations to "stop something that we as a society have been doing for years". Freedom is disappearing in our Society. I guess this borders on the rules of politics so if my post needs removing, no real indented violation of the rules was planed with this post, just an old country boy who stills lives out here with the wildlife and farm animals who has several of these stories he could share, but my favorite is one similar to the OP where the Atlanta transplants were finally told by all local government officials they needed to move back to Atlanta when they wanted to change everything to be like the big city they moved away from for the "new freedom". People are funny.

 

[kozmic]

The guy down the street from our old place had roosters. I can't think of a better way to greet the morning than a rooster crowing.

Well, except maybe rolling over and bumping into a warm, receptive body next to you followed by that same someone making you breakfast.

Faulkner, your knack for story tellin' is some of the finest around my friend!

 

[the ringo kid]

Just like some misguided, know-it-all folks want to do to our guns: have them kept locked up several miles away. For starters. While Clark County cannot be considered rural, there has been a mad dash of late to fill in every isolated open enclave with more and more houses. Build while the buildin's good. But the 'buildin' is not good as the water supply hovers near perilous and more homes only make it worse.

The area our range sits on in the NW valley is coveted by large-scale developers and we have to be constantly alert to their attempts to obtain it 'by hook or by crook...' to build more houses. And in many cases, we're seeing the same urban approach/philosophy to deal with existing conditions that are not really problems except in the eyes of "newbies:: pass feel-good restrictive legislation.

Kaaskop49
Shield #5103

Aint that the truth? That reminds me of another. My brother was about to get married in Dec of ninety nine. He then lived ways outside of Austin--a small community whose name I cant think of offhand?but they are known countrywide as a great place for BBQ and chickenfried steak.Anyway, he had several acres of land--and his nearest neighbor was about halfmile away.The wedding reception was being held there adn whilein the midst of it--we heard automatic fire coming through the trees,and he said it was his neighbor playing with his machine gun again.I was grinning like a big baboon--as I thought the sounds were perfect during the reception.Only one person thought it was disgusting but--she was the only one there who wasnt a conservative.

 

[finesse_r]

Aloha,

When the Wife retires in 2018, we may move to Texas Hill Country.

We would love to have a neighbor with a shooting range as long as we can shoot on it too.

I'm hoping to have enough acres to have my own rifle range.

So if anyone wants us for neighbors let us know where.

There are some real nice places up in Kansas and Ohio and real estate in Detroit is real cheap lately.

 

[gregintenn]

They don't even have to be Yankees anymore. Just people who've always lived in large cities.

Dave Allen used to tell a story about a woman from London visiting the West Country of England and asking a farmer why a cow in his field didn't have horns. "Well," the farmer answered, "some cows 'ave their 'orns removed. Some lose their 'orns accidentally. Some cows are born without 'orns. The reason that cow doesn't 'ave 'orns is, it's a bloody 'orse."

Around here, if they come in from elsewhere and act funny, they're Yankees.

 

[badge]

Here in my little slice of Heaven they call them Cidiots. It is very appropriate.

 

[RSanch111]

Sometimes we get stories about people from the country moving to the city.......getting a job at a factory until the war's over and then never going home! We call them, "Highwaymen"...."Scorpions"...."Outlaws...."

 

[DeathGrip]

My Dad used to say, "The world would be a great place if it weren't for people".

 

[Faulkner]

I've often said if it wasn't for all the people I have to deal with I'd have the best job in the world!

 

[Squarebutt]

Our neighbors are kinda loud, too. East of us is an Air Reserve base with a flock of C-5s. They practice touch and go a couple times a week, and fly out to haul troops and freight at all hours. A few miles to the west is an Air National Guard base with F-15s that patrol the east coast. Two of them went fast and low over the house about 10 last night.
I'll never complain. May God bless them all.

 

[DeathGrip]

Our neighbors are kinda loud, too. East of us is an Air Reserve base with a flock of C-5s. They practice touch and go a couple times a week, and fly out to haul troops and freight at all hours. A few miles to the west is an Air National Guard base with F-15s that patrol the east coast. Two of them went fast and low over the house about 10 last night.
I'll never complain. May God bless them all.

I'm a light sleeper and that stuff don't bother me a bit. I kinda dig it.

My Grandpa had a house at the beginning of the runway at Opalocka Airport. I say the beginning of because usually the winds are off of the east coast. So usually we got the landings coming over. Not a lot of big stuff back then so it was usually pretty quiet.

One day the winds were coming from the west and a couple of P 51's took off right over the house. I knew about the black and gold one but to my delight the other was the Miss America. What a beautiful sight and sound. They came around a few times.

 

[Faulkner]

Faulkner, you just gotta write a book!!!

My wife tells the me the same thing. I started keeping a journal about 6 years ago, seems there is always some new adventure around the corner.