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Old August 23rd, 2008, 04:19 PM   #23 (permalink)
2blu442
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Shutting down our hobby

I feel there's two issues being shared here. One, as many of you said people are looking to take advantage of others, and our society will not only allow but facilitates that. Back in my Dad's generation, WWII and after, if someone behaved badly the local citizens would have a talk with him! The next is how the bone yards and personal collections are going away. One local yard was getting a steady supply of Packards that they would remove the trim from and crush. They told me the state would not let them re-sell a whole car once it entered the yard. Later another car guy told me it was part of a collection a 90 year old man had. The county decided he shouldn't have all those old cars on his land, 75-100 I believe, so they stepped in to "clean up" his mess for him. They wern't leaking oil into a creek, or hurting anybody. If the neighbors didn't want to see a field full of cars they shouldn't have bought homes next door to him! He was there for decades with his collection I work in Forestry for the Federal Government but sometimes our Government is way out of control! What happened to "We the People" John
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