Sheriff Destroys Woman's Home

Have you heard about this? A Kentucky sheriff destroyed this poor woman's home. Listen to the comment about dumb hillbillies & take a look at the sheriff.


http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2008/11/20/harvey.home.destroyed.wave

Is that whut she shoulda been a'doin'? Looks la'ck she done got a heatch in her git'along.

;(

Whoa. Did you catch the part where there were 12 people living in that mobile home? Dayum.

Well, hell. I do feel for her, but, woman! Two hundred dollars won't get your house moved! Even I know that!

Big Sarge;506328 wrote:

Have you heard about this? A Kentucky sheriff destroyed this poor woman's home. Listen to the comment about dumb hillbillies & take a look at the sheriff.

The way I understood it, the sheriff wasn't calling them dumb hillbillies, he was talking about statements made by angry drivers and such.
She didn't get a reputable moving co, she didn't have insurance, public safety comes first. Bad traffic due to a major roadblock is definitely a safety issue.
I'm curious, did she agree to them trying to move the house (not that they needed her consent prob.) What solutions where presented before hand? I have a feeling that they would've tried to get her to call another co to come pick up the house and she refused trying to save money.
She hasn't sent her kid to school in three days because she can't salvage any changes of clothes? That's a ridiculous reason, school is more important.
I feel bad for her kids, I just don't feel bad for her or the other adults. They made bad decisions, they should have the brains to know not to just their WHOLE house to a company that doesn't even have insurance.

If the sheriff, who is in serious need of a few bacon cheeseburgers, had a little bit of compassion he might have arranged for a haywagon along with the two tractors to unload all of the woman's shit onto so she could at least have all of her possessions intact, albeit with nowhere to go. But he seemed to be following the dictates of duty or maybe just lack of imagination. I'm sure he was annoyed as hell and I'm sure we are just seeing the tip of the newspaper (sic) selling iceberg.

She doesn't know a good thing when it happens.

The way I understood it, the sheriff wasn't calling them dumb hillbillies

Did you get a look at his photo? I doubt he has any room to call anyone a hillbilly.

I feel sorry for her. Ya'll are some cold hearted folks

footfootfoot wrote:

If the sheriff... had a little bit of compassion he might have arranged for a haywagon along with the two tractors to unload all of the woman's shit onto so she could at least have all of her possessions intact, albeit with nowhere to go.

I think the intention was for the mobile home to just scoot sideways off the roadway. I think the 'toppling over, rolling down the embankment and being totally destroyed' thing was an accident.

It was the problem lies in that the original movers got it stuck halfway on the road and then the sheriff believed it had to be moved. In the process it fell over and was destroyed.

I feel bad that she lost her house too, but WTF? What happened to the original movers?

When god gives you lemons he opens a window.

That's so you can throw the lemon out when he's not looking.

It doesn't play for me.
Damn - sounds fascinating.
Especially the bit about the lemons.

Naaah I feel bad for her. Don't count me in the hating group. No one there is professional: not the moving company, not the sheriff, not anyone in the household, and it's just all bad all the way around.

Sheriff's can't comment on the grade of movers you choose to hire. He needs to be out there serving tickets and writing reports on the movers, not judging the woman's personal choices. If she had paid 2000 dollars what would his excuse be for not handing out tickets to the movers or claiming any personal responsibility for his actions.

It's like Louis CK says. Everyone hates white trash.

footfootfoot;506423 wrote:

When god gives you lemons he opens a window.

:lol2

Cicero;506581 wrote:

If she had paid 2000 dollars what would his excuse be for not handing out tickets to the movers or claiming any personal responsibility for his actions.

You mean the one with insurance for just such circumstances? Uh they would have taken care of it. That's what created the whole problem - she hired some two-bit company for $200.

She should have waited until January 21st.

Good point classic. I often forget how mandatory insurance is because people are lame.

I found it odd that the sheriff didn't even mention that company at all. Like it was all this woman's fault.
I wonder if she just gave "Bobby Joe" with the really BIG TRUCK and trailer hitch $200 to do it.

Who knows what the sheriff said overall, his interview probably lasted for 20 minutes and then they cut it down to 30 seconds of a 3-minute video.

I could only base my statements on what was on the video.

Oh I'm not blaming you, classic, I'm just saying that often local news teams are even bigger ratings-desperate sensationalist whores than the major news outlets.

Look, if 'wishes' and 'but's' were candy and nuts...or, is it: If 'if's' and 'and's' were pots and pans..., oh, hell. Listen: NOBODY gets their house moved for two hundred bucks! Nobody.

Do you suppose she paid them up front?

Clodfobble;506333 wrote:

Whoa. Did you catch the part where there were 12 people living in that mobile home? Dayum.

Meh... Call it a "close knit family." :cool:

Wall to Wall Clampetting

Clodfobble;506628 wrote:

Oh I'm not blaming you, classic, I'm just saying that often local news teams are even bigger ratings-desperate sensationalist whores than the major news outlets.

No longer humanly possible :p

Brianna;506640 wrote:

Look, if 'wishes' and 'but's' were candy and nuts...or, is it: If 'if's' and 'and's' were pots and pans..., oh, hell. Listen: NOBODY gets their house moved for two hundred bucks! Nobody.

Do you suppose she paid them up front?

Oh yeh - thats why she got such a good deal!

Brianna;506640 wrote:

Look, if 'wishes' and 'but's' were candy and nuts...or, is it: If 'if's' and 'and's' were pots and pans...

Shit in one hand, piss in the other, see which one people shake first. Or something like that.

busterb;506389 wrote:

Did you get a look at his photo? I doubt he has any room to call anyone a hillbilly.

The Sheriff wasn't calling anyone a hillbilly. He said
"I've got cars going by sayin 'you dumb bunch o' hillbillies' and people are cussing me because they were stopped in traffic."

He was saying that he was being called a hillbilly as he tried to deal with the situation.

Nine hours and several failed rescue attempts ...is it unreasonable at this point to just get the thing shifted anyway you can? he didn't intend to destroy her home, it just happened and he's being forced to defend that decision.

He's only criticising her choice of mover to point out that the whole situation was not his fault in the first place. She picked the mover who screwed up and didn't have insurance to deal with the screw-up. She was stupid and/or poor. the sheriff didn't immediately bulldoze the stuff -it took nine hours before that happened. Who says she wasn't given a chance to get her stuff out of there? Maybe she was stupid and trusting with that decision too?

Why should someone else take the blame for that. If you can't afford to do the job properly but decide to go ahead anyway, the risk is all on you. Perhaps the accident happened because there was 12 people's worth of crap in the mobile home and it wasn't properly packed? just a thought.....

seems to me everyone want to take the "poor woman's" side when she has no case to place blame anywhere but on herself. Mind you, the sound clip doesn't say she's blaming the sheriff either, but it's sure as hell what the newscasters are implying.

sure, feel sorry for her. but don't blame anyone but her.

They had equipment to push it over but not drag the damn thing off the road? Bullshit, even without wheels on the son-of-a-bitch they could have dragged it off the road. :rolleyes:

They were trying to drag it off the road, just scoot it over. They didn't push it over, it tipped over. That was all an accident.

Relax. This is the best thing that ever happened to her. Now she can sue the local authorities, sell the story rights, and will probably be on Oprah and end up with a lucrative career endorsing moving companies and trailer parks. ;)

ZenGum;506794 wrote:

Relax. This is the best thing that ever happened to her. Now she can sue the local authorities, sell the story rights, and will probably be on Oprah and end up with a lucrative career endorsing moving companies and trailer parks. ;)

You're right, Zen. I'm pretty sure this is how She Who Must Not be Named got her start in life...

morethanpretty;506791 wrote:

They were trying to drag it off the road, just scoot it over. They didn't push it over, it tipped over. That was all an accident.

No, pushing it sideways is always risky, it's not built to take that kind of stress. It's built to be pulled or pushed from the end. :headshake

xoxoxoBruce;506825 wrote:

No, pushing it sideways is always risky, it's not built to take that kind of stress. It's built to be pulled or pushed from the end. :headshake

No doubt about that. It has very little stability.

Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006,"


Nice touch.

She paid a man named Chris "Pancake" Meyers $200 to put the mobile home on a trailer and move it a plot of land she was buying. She told the newspaper she believed Meyers when he said he had all the required permits and insurance.
Meyers began the move on Friday but hadn't gotten far when his trailer lost two wheels on U.S. 68 and came to a stop in front of Jim Gaunce's house, blocking much of the highway.

She is stupid for "believing him" and he is an idiot.

http://www.kentucky.com/181/story/597604.html wrote:

Garrett said over the course of the evening, he did everything he could think of to get the house unstuck so it could be salvaged. But, he said, several of the well-intentioned efforts did significant damage to the house. For example, trying to push with one truck from behind while pulling from the front resulted in the hitch coming off and Barton's blue-walled bedroom being crushed.

Lee Roberts, owner of Roberts Heavy-Duty Towing in Lexington, said his company was called in to help. "We tried to pull the trailer back on the road but couldn't without tearing it to pieces."

Pushing it off they road wasn't their first action Bruce. They tried to pull it and even called another moving company. After 9hrs of standing in the rain directing traffic with my whole police force (one deputy), I would push the damn thing off the road too. Hell I woulda done it well before when they did. Also the lady and the man she hired didn't have proper permits, sheriff should have ticket'd them, but didn't. I think he gave them more than enough time and then took the only action he really could. He did what was best for public safety, not one family and their house. The house was going to get torn apart even if they had tried to move it regularly at that point.

TheMercenary;506830 wrote:

Garrett, a wiry chain-smoker who ran for re-election with the slogan of "More 'Dick' in 2006,"


Nice touch.

I didn't like how that article seemed to in her favor:
Barton, a grandma at 35 with gold streaks in red hair,

The Fuck? "Gold streaks in red hair" this isn't poetry news, idiot.

I did like the sheriff's slogan though!

morethanpretty;506867 wrote:

The house was going to get torn apart even if they had tried to move it regularly at that point.

That's because everyone involved was an idiot. :haha:

xoxoxoBruce;506875 wrote:

That's because everyone involved was an idiot. :haha:

She started it. :p

Nuh uh - you started it!

TheMercenary;506806 wrote:

http://news.aol.com/article/woman-blames-sheriff-for-ruining-home/255727

the article says she blames the sheriff but doesn't quote her on that.....

ZenGum;506794 wrote:

Relax. This is the best thing that ever happened to her. Now she can sue the local authorities, sell the story rights, and will probably be on Oprah and end up with a lucrative career endorsing moving companies and trailer parks. ;)

what he said.