My husband's sister T and her husband D live about 20 miles south of us, still in the same town and zip code, but their home is near the lake and near the Daniel Boone National Forest. They are completely the "outdoor type". I am fairly certain if you left them in the woods with nothing but a Swiss-Army knife they would survive, probably thrive!
A few years ago they were able to purchase a lot adjacent to theirs that was covered in old growth trees. I am telling you it was magnificent! Beautiful Birch, ash, maple, poplar and others, so old that you could not put your arms around them. I am telling you it was beautiful, majestic, and peaceful.
Plans were made, they would put a small picnic table out there so they could enjoy summer dinners after a hard day's work, in the peace and majesty that God had created. First they would have to clear away some brush which they would get to before fire season came.
They worked like demons clearing the brush and briar's so that they could have access to the lot, by walking rather than on four-wheeler.
One day they came home from work, passing logging trucks on the road home, which was not unusual. They live near the forest so they really didn't think any thing of them. Until they got home and saw that their beloved old growth trees had been CLEAR CUT.
There would be no relaxing dinners in the woods. The woods were gone.
From what they were able to find out the logging company had contracted to cut the property next to theirs, and just went too far with their chain saws.
The logging company really wasn't sorry and offered only a paltry $100 per tree. D told them to shove it.
Evidently it wasn't an accident that they went too far in cutting. The laws of our state really aren't on the side of the property owner, more like the side of the logging company. After discussing it with an attorney, D & T went home and admitted defeat.
I know T shed a few tears, but I can assure you she didn't carry on like these nutjobs!
YOU HAVE HEARD OF STUCK ON STUPID, TRY BEING STUCK ON LUNATIC!
SOMETIMES FUNNY, SOMETIMES SAD, BUT MOSTLY A CRAZY RIDE!
9 comments:
Oh, my goodness! I would have been LIVID!!! Seems the only thing to do out there is protect your lot with strong, ugly fencing?
And the law was not on their side??? YIkes .. where on earth do they live? I'll avoid it.
That's pathetic! Why, with all of the ambulance-chasing lawyers there are in this world, isn't there something they can do? Trespassing, destruction of property ... it seems like a slam dunk.
Sheesh.
OH NO! That is HORRIBLE! Outright rape! theft! and a few other horrible words! This is one of those times when a good nasty lawyer is called for!
Auuuughhh! I was dreaming of that picnic under those beautiful trees too. My heart is broken for them. I am with Doghouse. That is just out and out trespassing! It seems like that there could have been some kind of charges! Maybe they should at least call the newspaper and get some bad publicity. Businesses hate that as much as anything.
That's heinous. I agree with Jay ... they should get a fence, an electric fence.
This is horrible, I don't know what to really say. HORRIBLE!!!!
OH NO M'AM!!! I would have fought them tooth and nail to get a lot more money at least....times the amount of time to regrow the trees....ugh!!!
The way the law is set up, the benefit of the doubt goes to the loggers. As long as they say "oops, we didn't know better," they're covered. The owners could spend years and many, many thousands in legal fees and maybe, just maybe get something out of it. It's a real problem. Kentucky needs better laws to deal with this. Timber theft is rampant in the state because there are no real penalties.
Oh, wow. Unbelievable. That type of thing just makes me absolutely livid. Livid that it happened and livid that we can't do anything about it.
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