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| 2006-12-02 |
| Posted by:xbalanke |
| #9 Ya know, these type stories are happening more and more, and I always chuckle. Mostly it's due to urban sprawl (new subdivisions going up right next to the farm that's been there for 100+ years). That it happened to some headbangers is just a plus. One final true story a guy from Florida told me (he works at the FL Dept. of Environmental Protection, DEP, a State counterpart to EPA, where I work). He was at a public meeting for a proposed dairy, in North Florida, and the dairy had applied for a wastewater permit to DEP. Granted, everyone that was protesting the dairy was there for these same reasons (mostly zoning or lack thereof, which EPA/DEP don't get into at all, that's a local issue). At the end of the meeting, one lady stood up (who lived nearby) and literally said, "Why do we need a dairy here? I can just go to the grocery store to get my milk!" The DEP guy said, "Lady, where do you think the store gets the milk?" At that, the mindset of "city folk" was truly exposed. They have NO clue where their milk (or drinking water, or sewage, or gas, or power, etc.) comes from. They just know they can get it at the store/flip on a switch and it works! He told me that all the farmers in the room busted out laughing at the DEP guy's response. |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-02 16:11 |
| #8 K. I. A. Too bad if those initials prove prophetic. |
| Posted by: Nimble Spemble 2006-12-02 16:07 |
| #7 The bottom line of this story is that the asshats just picked the wrong place to buy and the wrong guy to fuck with. That this would / will be true in so many places and with so many folks in the South is purdy funny, IMO. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-02 16:02 |
| #6 Or chickens, .com. The ammonia in their waste alone is enough to knock a grown man over. The new chicken houses have huge fans (for cooling the birds). Just put the end of the houses with the fans near the moskkk. There's a fairly new set of chicken houses (I think 4 houses, each hold about 25,000-30,000 birds) going up I-75 north out of Atlanta (near Cartersville area). They're about 200-300 feet off the right of way, but have the fans blowing toward the interstate. You can smell it for about 10-15 secs. after passing by, even if you're going 80+mph (and, the farm is on the southbound side of I-75). And, ed, not only the waste pond, but the mortality pits for burying hogs that die on the farm. Nothing like seeing a full-size bulldozer have to go in and remove a 260 lb. hog from the house, lol! Another true story, a guy I work with went to inspect some hog farms up in Tennessee. About mid-week they had a storm roll through, and the next day, he went out to one of the hog farms. Lightning had struck the power to the cooling units to 1 hog house, and a cable had broken to raise/lower the cooling "curtains" on the side of the house. Mid-summer, and they had to dispose of about 600 BIG pigs! My coworker came up and they were extremely busy digging a burial pit (imagine how big that would be)! |
| Posted by: BA 2006-12-02 15:53 |
| #5 ROTFLMAO! My neighbors are probably thinking I'm nuts. Again. We need more of this kind of genius! |
| Posted by: gorb 2006-12-02 15:44 |
| #4 He should consider raising turkeys, too. Crazy loud, incredible smell, the perfect neighbors. |
| Posted by: .com 2006-12-02 15:29 |
| #3 I know which corner of the property the new waste pond is going. |
| Posted by: ed 2006-12-02 15:22 |
| #2 More from the Houston Chronicle. There's a few details not mentioned in the other story. The mosque spokeman says that "attendance at the largest services will probably not exceed 30 worshippers", but apparently the mosque complex serves 150-200 families. And of those, you're only going to get 30 worshippers at a time? My boyfriend thinks this is a typo for "300", but 300 people is not a trivial number. By the way, Houston (and environs) is famous for its lack of zoning laws, which is why the government can't stop them from building a mosque, and it can't stop a guy from putting in a few pigs, either. About a mile from me there's a high-rise office complex, and a mile in the other direction there are cows. (Office complex has been there for years, during which there used to be a lot more cows.) There's a pop-up on the Chronicle web site that shows the proposed site. It's right next to George [H.W.] Bush Park. |
| Posted by: Angie Schultz 2006-12-02 14:53 |
| #1 Baker has long roots here. His family named the road and when the new neighbors moved in, he tells us, they asked him to move out. "Basically that I should package up my family and my business and find a place elsewhere," said Baker. "That's ridiculous, they just bought the place one week prior and he's telling me I should think about leaving." Well, it's because you have to respect their sensitivies (pigs and all are haram), and... they don't have to respect yours (you're just a kufr). Simple, but brilliant. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2006-12-02 11:56 |