Oct 2nd, 2017: Old Car City
50 miles north of Atlanta there’s a sign that says, “The world’s oldest junkyard jungle, here 80 years.”
Over 4,000 cars mostly ‘72 or older, over 34 acres. Quote:
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possible angle to make it. Dean takes over and spent everything the family accumulated to acquire more and more in a grandiose scheme to profit in the growing old car parts market. But in truth he is a hoarder, not wanting to part with anything. When he finally realized the truth, he changed course to give tours of his “museum”, although he’s done nothing to preserve a single piece. Walk 6 miles to see them all, or sit quietly and listen to them rot. I don’t approve, but I understand. link |
There are scrapyards, auto dismantlers and then there are junk yards, with nearly every toxic substance known slowly seeping into an ever growing dead zone.
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Used to be an old junkyard here that hosted Haunted Woods-type events around Halloween.
A drunk idiot, in a junkyard, in the woods...He fell onto something sharp and rusty, sued the guy, and now, no more haunted junkyard at Halloween. |
Yes, the liability is horrendous, and the insurance so expensive little guys can't even think about it.
My brother told me the small town all volunteer fire department bought a Bouncy Castle, one of the blow up things for kids to jump around in, to use at their annual fund raising carnival. The company that insures the town yelled whoa, full stop, if they used the Castle the company would cancel the towns policy. A separate policy for the Castle would be $10k for the 10 days of the carnival.:( |
We have rented a bouncy castle for our somewhat annual block party. I'd guesstimate that out of the 6 or so times that we (as a neighborhood) have done this, there has been one injury that the parents deemed severe enough that they called an ambulance to come take the kid to the ER on a back board. I had to move the cones out of the street to let the ambulance pass.
He ended up being ok, and the kids (my kids) absolutely love the thing. But they are fairly dangerous, and no adults ever supervise what's going on in there. Freaking mosh pit. :D |
Are trampoline parks a thing up north yet? Or do we just have them here?
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Beech Bend Park in Bowling Green, Ky used to have a trampoline house. It was nine huge rectangular trampolines, iirc.
This was about thirty years ago. |
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