Saturday, August 29, 2020

Farmer Sticks It To The Government


As someone in the comments pointed out; the only thing that's more freaking awesome than seeing someone stick it to an organization like the HOA, is seeing someone stick it to the dang government! This farmer handled their situation beautifully. Job well done. 

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Text - r/ProRevenge + Join u/yoloswagernaut • 9h 1 This was a comment from another user on r/gifs. A city near me had a farmer holding out as the city expanded. The city wouldn't let him sell his land zoned commercial, since it was a farm. While completely surround by commercial development. The city wanted him to sell the land zoned for agriculture. Basically to let some dev bulldozer the fields and flip it for commercial space. Easily 10x. Settled into a stalemate.

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Text - The area became more and more developed. Housing encroached of the back of the property. The farmer getting old and getting tired of this shit, not wanting to pass this fight on to his kids came up with a plan. The property had been used for soybean and farming corn to this point. Not really a burden to his neighbors. He applied for received proper licensing from the state for a hog confinement lot. In case you don't know that is where they keep tens of thousands of hogs before they are b

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Text - He did. He had 400 hogs delivered to what at this point was one of the busiest roads in town. The locals nearly lynched the city council. In less than a week the city backtracked a nearly 20 year feud and let him sell his farm for the fair commercial rate as he had originally bargained for. 1.4k 38 Share

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