Funny sign on farm

[Dingo3]

 

[Gambles]

Just like people who buy land near an airport and complain of the noise…that sign will not stop the lawsuits.

 

[Absent Minded Farmer]

I could have used that for my old apartment.

Mike

 

[sms]

Near us they built a development of multi-million dollar homes in the woods on a lake. So happens that lake was built long ago as a hydroelectric reservoir. Dry summer and suddenly the lake front homes were far from the water. Yes, they sued to maintain water levels.

 

[Steve in VA]

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I can atest to a fella that bought business space near a railroad and then went on a mission to have them stop blowing the horn as they approached the road crossing in town.

 

[trackrat]

When I was young we raised cotton the local gin had been there a long time then blew the burrs and such into a pile in the off season someone bought property next to the burr pile and built a big house on it , Guess what when we started ginning they sued the gin to stop blowing burrs next to their house THEY WON B.S.

 

[Charlie M]

Probably some wives that would like to put the sign in their house concerning their husbands.

 

[JD Dave]

Priceless! I have to post that sign.

 

[jon f mn]

Not far from me in the suburbs of Minneapolis they had developed a bunch of land that surrounded a farm. The farmer wanted to develop his land himself but the big money folks blocked him so they could do it, some say money went to county board members. The farmer, who had been retired, decided to raise hogs, lots of hogs. And he also decided to save money by feeding them garbage and restaurant waste. The houses sued many times, but as a farm they lost. I think it took close to 10 years but eventually the county let him developed it himself.

 

[TomA in CA]

We have " Right to Farm" laws in many areas.

 

[bmaverick]

Hey, where can I order 5 of those!

 

[Timmycornpicker]

The farm next to us was developed into a cul-de-sac housing development in the mid-90s. One of the houses is currently for sale and the realtor is using the cul-de-sac's location between two preserved farms as a selling point. I'm just waiting for someone from that big city east of here to buy it and then tell us what they want and don't want us to do on our preserved farmland. The township does have a "right-to-farm" ordinance.

 

[Tony in SD]

When i was looking for my first house to buy, the agent to us to a house next to a large hog confinement. When I asked about the smell, they said it wasnt a problem. But I knew better. I bought a different house. Years later I drove by that house and all I could smell was the hogs.

If you are stupid enough to move into an industrial area, you should also have to live with what ever that Industry does.

 

[petertay]

Sign on a farm lane near us says, BEWARE OF WIFE.

 

[Ray,IN]

I can atest to a fella that bought business space near a railroad and then went on a mission to have them stop blowing the horn as they approached the road crossing in town.

Long ago I knew a couple that lived next to a RR track. Some years after purchase, he said he sat up in bed and asked his wife, "what was that"? Then he realized the train had not passed his house at the usual time. He called the sheriff; they discovered the train had derailed several miles prior to his house.

 

[DWF]

There is a small town in Northern Mn that has a busy railroad running through it. Quite a few years ago a new school was built not to far from the tracks. Never had a problem for 40 or 50 years. 15 years or so ago people got all upset that the RR was dangerous for the school. They wanted to have the RR move the tracks. RR won out and tracks stayed. A few years later due to dwindeling population the school closed and merged with another small town.
DWF

 

[Texasmark]

Just like people who buy land near an airport and complain of the noise…that sign will not stop the lawsuits.

What I find scary is the sharp angle jets have to take during takeoff to reduce the noise footprint on the neighborhoods developers build adjacent to airports.

 

[sms]

Not far from me in the suburbs of Minneapolis they had developed a bunch of land that surrounded a farm. The farmer wanted to develop his land himself but the big money folks blocked him so they could do it, some say money went to county board members. The farmer, who had been retired, decided to raise hogs, lots of hogs. And he also decided to save money by feeding them garbage and restaurant waste. The houses sued many times, but as a farm they lost. I think it took close to 10 years but eventually the county let him developed it himself.

Similar story that happened years ago in s Stowe VT. As the ski town grew and became ritzy it surrounded a long time farm, the farmer wanted to do something on his farm but was denied a permit. Yup, he decided to raise hogs and was grandfathered so nothing they could do. This is the same town that made McDonald's build a colonial style building with no arches to house their business.

 

[504]

I am waiting, several new duplexes have been built next to the fence of a long time industrial building. I can’t imagine why zoning allowed them to build. But you know sooner or later somebodys going to complain about the truck traffic and noise

 

[RedMF40]

There’s an interesting property a few miles from my place on the same road. The house had stood vacant for maybe 20-30 years. Possibly longer. A storm tree or two had crashed into the roof and let the weather in for years. The lot was littered with car tires and junk vehicles and assorted trash. It was clearly a distressed property. I thought when it went up for sale that a buyer would tear down the house and build new. I was wrong.

A young man with lots of contacts in the contracting world bought it and turned it into a showplace. I had to see it when there was an open house, because the transformation was one of the more dramatic ones where home renovations are concerned. The whole place had to be rebuilt. He did a great job, everything was very “high-end” and the house featured huge open spaces, an enormous gourmet kitchen and all that. It was a “status house.”

It sold for a bit over $1M and I suspect the seller had almost that much into the project. It sits on a modest three acres, and everything around the property is farmland. I don’t know when manure is typically spread on fields, but the house sold and settled during non-manure times. Shortly after that, I was driving down the road and could smell it from a mile away on one of the warmer days. Yep, they’d spread fresh stuff on the fields that bordered the property.