"Chicken man" blows up his house and himself to avoid eviction

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Kadarin

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If your neighbors hate you because you're trying to raise livestock, it's probably best that you're no longer a problem.
 
MichaelD

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If my next door neighboor (in my normal, suburban subdivision) started raising chickens that clucked and howled day and night I'd be throwing Coyotes over his fence. If your house is in the middle of a 5-acre piece of property out in the boonies, that's one thing. Doing this with complete disregard to those around you is another, entirely. Man, imagine the stink, let alone the noise! The guy was obviously not well in the head. Too bad the city dragged it's heels and the homeowners around him had to suffer for it. Society is a better place when wackos like this "get removed" one way or the other.
 
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MichaelD said:
If my next door neighboor (in my normal, suburban subdivision) started raising chickens that clucked and howled day and night I'd be throwing Coyotes over his fence. If your house is in the middle of a 5-acre piece of property out in the boonies, that's one thing. Doing this with complete disregard to those around you is another, entirely. Man, imagine the stink, let alone the noise! The guy was obviously not well in the head. Too bad the city dragged it's heels and the homeowners around him had to suffer for it. Society is a better place when wackos like this "get removed" one way or the other.
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He had the chickens prior to people moving in around him. Someone bitched and rather than it being worked out in some sort of constructive manner, he fought everybody on everything culminating with the explosion.

And yeah, he had some mental health problems.
 
Texashiker

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I have mixed feelings about this situation.

If nothing else, get rid of the roosters. The hens are not going to make a lot of noise.

The pigs, their stink can travel for a good bit.

If the guy had the livestock before other people moved out there, too bad for them. In most places livestock is grandfathered in.
 
lupi

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When I was a kid lady next door was from brazil and had a chicken coup in their back yard. Other than the occasional bowl of eggs brought over, can't say it was a noticebal situation.
 
PingSpike

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So, the good part about this thread is it caused me to look up the lyrics of the song "Rooster" by Alice in Chains. In case anyone was wondering, the line is actually not "Walking tall the chicken man".
 
MichaelD

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Hmm. Was that in the article? I must've missed that. I thought he lived there and one day decided to start raising animals. If he had them before, then that's the new folks' problem. UNLESS he was in violation of zoning laws or health codes or something like that.
 
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MichaelD said:
Hmm. Was that in the article? I must've missed that. I thought he lived there and one day decided to start raising animals. If he had them before, then that's the new folks' problem. UNLESS he was in violation of zoning laws or health codes or something like that.
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He was definitely in violation with the pigs and whatnot. Chickens are sort of a grey area in the various metro counties.
 
DrPizza

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MichaelD said:
If my next door neighboor (in my normal, suburban subdivision) started raising chickens that clucked and howled day and night I'd be throwing Coyotes over his fence. If your house is in the middle of a 5-acre piece of property out in the boonies, that's one thing. Doing this with complete disregard to those around you is another, entirely. Man, imagine the stink, let alone the noise! The guy was obviously not well in the head. Too bad the city dragged it's heels and the homeowners around him had to suffer for it. Society is a better place when wackos like this "get removed" one way or the other.
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Chickens are much much quieter than dogs, and smell a lot less (provided their enclosure is kept clean.) They take up very little space, and provide nice fresh eggs. 3 or 4 chickens would provide all the eggs that a typical household in suburbia would need and would have zero impact on neighbors. The number of jurisdictions allowing chickens (hens) seems to be increasing, not decreasing.
 
MichaelD

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Chickens make noise. When I lived overseas the building next to mine had a chicken coop on the roof. All freaking day those things would crow and cluck and coo-coo or whatever it is that egg machines do. Do you know how loud a rooster is at 4:00AM when there is solid concrete all around it? It's like yelling into a megaphone. :eek: I threw water on them once...amost caused an international incident with that one. :sneaky: As for the smell, let's just say that chicken coop cleanliness was not real high on their list of things to do. Pigs are the ultimate in "My God, the smell!" however. Nothing stinks like pigs.
 
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SirStev0

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Back in my hometown we had a little something like this when I was in middle school.

A kind of eccentric guy on the edge of town did something bizarre, got cited, fought it and won and then the next few years the borough council tried to prove they had the biggest dicks and made his life hell. I think he ended up moving, or killing himself, or dieing or something like that.

There wasn't much to do in my bumblefuck town so I guess the council had to show how important they were. There were always stories of him getting arrested and cited for nonsense after he won the court case.

If I remember correctly, the original citation was about him having and using an outhouse on his property and his refusal to be hooked up to the town's sewage system.
 
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