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Across the Fence:  WHAT!!! WERE THEY THINKING!!!!  |
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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 Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 09:57:28 AM
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... WELL .. I DON'T THINK THEY WERE THINKING!!!
can you believe the mountain of junk that honey-hunk hauled out of the gulley in the woods behind our cabins?!!!!
there was TWICE as much as this! hank bagged up all the plastic and paper trash .. and our trash collectors took it!
for the life of me .. i don't understand this mentality! WHY would anyone want to dump this kind of stuff on their very own property!!!
HOWEVER .. we were blessed to find a man from town who collects anything 'metal' to recycle! and he JUST hauled it all away!!!
hank was going to have to load it in several truck loads and make trips to town on 'amnesty' day .. when people can bring this kind of junk to town and it is hauled away. WHEW! dodged a bullet on that one!
i've heard that there has not always been a 'trash' pick-up down here .. but i still don't understand why people DUMP on the earth! especially things that simply will not ever disappear.
i wonder how many 'generations' have their trash in this pile! i guarantee .. NONE of it is ours!
WHAT happens to all this trash at 'land-fills'? Can you just imagine a thousand years from now .. when all this TRASH is dug up by archeologists (IF we don't destroy our precious earth before then!) WHAT will it say about our 'civilization'??
o.k. .. sorry gurlfrenz .. off my soapbox .. i just don't understand .. no matter how hard i try!!!
well .. at least .. the families who come AFTER us .. will find a clean environment here at the farm!
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Amie C.
True Blue Farmgirl
2099 Posts
Finger Lakes Region
NY
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 10:22:07 AM
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Well, the thing is, none of it was trash when it was new. As long as we need things and buy things, there will be trash eventually. We dig up the trash of ancient civilizations now and we think it's really cool and amazing. Maybe someday that broken stroller or old fridge will be in a museum!
But dumping it randomly certainly is ugly and a big hassle for others. What's even worse than dumping trash on your own property? Dumping it on somebody else's property! That seems to be the fashion in some of the rural areas around here. |
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KYgurlsrbest
True Blue Farmgirl
4853 Posts
Jonni
Elsmere
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 10:25:39 AM
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Our little elderly neighbor is from the mountains on the border of Kentucky and Tennessee...the EPA came in last year and made her clean up her back yard (over the years, they've dumped hot water heaters, refrigerators, sheds, whatever...they were simply used to doing that in the hills, so why not in a subdivision? The worst part was I never saw any of it until we cleared a path down to our creekbed. When there are no trees, we can see the crap they've still left behind. Once the EPA comes out, they apparently don't check back :(
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lisamarie508
True Blue Farmgirl
2648 Posts
Lisa
Idaho City
ID
USA
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 11:11:24 AM
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It's just deplorable what some folks do with their junk! A few years ago, dh and I found 3 tires, still on the rims out in the forest. All I can think of is that they were just too darn lazy to put the flat tire back in their vehicle! Can you imagine being so lazy you'd throw away a perfectly good rim? Our dump has a sort of amnesty day, too when you can bring in tires and appliances for free. So when that day came, we went and collected those tires and took them up with the rest of our own junk. I don't understand that mentality either. Especially, when they dump stuff in a nearly pristine area!
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catscharm74
True Blue Farmgirl
4687 Posts
Heather
Texas
USA
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 11:15:13 AM
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I remember growing up on about 5 acres of land, most of it covered with thick, deep woods. There was a pond back there and one summer, it dried up. Oh the junk that was back there. Me and sis pulled all kinds of metal out of there (I know, we could have gotten hurt, but it WAS the 1980's...; ) ) Another part of the woods had pallets, old housewares tossed off. I can't even imagine how hard they had to try to drag that stuff down there.
My grandparents were famous for "Burying" stuff outback. When they died, my dad had to take a backhoe to clean up the land of all of it's junk.
I think an old fashion war effort is in need. Collecting scarp metal, rubber, anything!!!
Cheers,
Heather
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MulberryMama
Farmgirl in Training
37 Posts
Jill
Prospect Heights
IL
USA
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 11:40:39 AM
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We have a remote property, which we purchased a few years ago. There was a "private dump" on the property, that was heavily utilized by the previous owner, (a craggy knarled old curmudgeon) and was filled with old appliances, broken furniture, matrresses,cans, bottles, his ex-wife's old clothing, animal carcasses, and other assorted junk. My husband, his cousin, and a couple of his friends, spent a very long and very dirty weekend filling a 40 dumpster with trash, and another with about 18 - 20 old stoves, washers, and refrigerators, and scrap metal.
The local dumps would charge a few dollars to drop off your junk at the dump(depending on what and how much you had), and I guess alot of people couldn't bring themselves to part with a few dollars to get rid of their stuff, when they had a hundred acres of "unspoiled" wilderness to "keep" the stuff that was too worthless to clutter up the house.
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mikesgirl
True Blue Farmgirl
3659 Posts
Sherri
Elma
WA
USA
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Miss Bee Haven
True Blue Farmgirl
4331 Posts
Janice
Louisville/Irvington
Kentucky
USA
4331 Posts |
Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 1:24:26 PM
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Yes, Frannie. Who do you think did all that?
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Tina Michelle
True Blue Farmgirl
6948 Posts
Tina
sunshine state
FL
USA
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 1:28:06 PM
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that's just awful. I never can understand that either. we have a lot of folks that do that around here..you can drive by in the country and see a lovely house with well tended yard, then right next door..the junk pile.it really is sad. glad that you all got your area cleaned up though. looks like it was a lot of hard work though moving all that junk.
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DaisyFarm
True Blue Farmgirl
1646 Posts
Diane
Victoria
BC
Canada
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 1:50:36 PM
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Oh this is nothing. When we bought this place it looked like THE dump!! I totally agree with you Frannie, I just don't understand how some people could own a piece of such beautiful paradise and pile their garbage all over it. Seems to me you have to be a special kind of ignorant.
Just to give you an idea, we had a local company bring in two demolition bins. We put 6 tons of scrap metal in the first one and 9 in the other...15 tons!! The great part about that was they ended up paying us! Another local business recycled two truckloads of old tires for us. We burned enough rotted lumber to build two houses. And I won't even get into all the plastics we spent months sorting and recycling. It was just nuts!
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CabinCreek-Kentucky
True Blue Farmgirl
8529 Posts
Frannie
Green County
Kentucky
USA
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Posted - Apr 07 2008 : 4:01:51 PM
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this junk was indeed in 'two' gullies out back (of our property) .. hank wanted to get down there before it became 'snake haven' .. i don't know how many former owners dumped their trash in those gullies .. but it sure stops here and now! i just hope that all future generations appreciate this land!
WHAT must the INSIDE of their homes look like .. if the OUTSIDE is so disrespected!!
it is not totally fair to say this is a 'rural' or 'country' mentality .. cuz' i've sure seen lotsa' junk piled up in backyards in the cities too .. ONLY THERE .. you are much more likely to get reported .. because when there is TRASH .. there is GARBAGE .. which brings RATS .. and in close proximity to the homes of others.
i would think that in THIS day and age .. that we are learning a better appreciation for our environment and earth .. after all .. if we don't have a healthy environment .. it may be the very end of civilization in the future.
pass the word gurlfrenz!!! xo
True Friends * Frannie
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"GATHERING ROOM" ..
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