[tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
- From: "w.wood" <evil.scientist.boo@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Jan 2012 05:44:13 -0600
It's been happening for decades since Lady Bird Johnson started "Keep
America Beautiful" the problem is that some folks "junk" is another's
beauty. Unfortunately zoning laws like these are very real and
very insidious and it allows some "code enforcement" officer to come in and
basically dictate what you can do with your property on your property. If
it had been there for 25 years and then all of a sudden somebody complained
about it, something should have been done to accommodate the use. I mean
Dade County isn't exactly the beauty spot of Florida and cleaning this up
didn't make it any prettier.
On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Rusty Herring <rustmah1@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> and they wonder why people are fid up with government!!!
>
> If it can happen it will hapen to me????
>
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> Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:29:29 -0800
> From: bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
> Subject: [tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
> To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>
> Thanks Brad. The estimated tons must have been a misnomer. 1,000 bugs,
> even stripped, would probably bring $150 each at scrap. That's $150,000.
> Can't believe they just gave them to the hauler.
>
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> *From:* Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx>
> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Sun, January 15, 2012 8:14:48 PM
> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>
> this is the link Sammie
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 8:13 PM, Brad Tripp <bradtripp@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> http://www2.tbo.com/news/pasco-news/2012/jan/14/panewso1-no-more-time-to-work-out-the-bugs-ar-347217/
>
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:24 PM, sammie smith <
> bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Steve: Thanks for the info. But, yeah, you do have to log in to
> Facebook if you click on that link. In fact, it comes up with your e-mail
> address and asks for your password to log in to Facebook to read the post.
>
> That said: Some one got screwed. At current scrap prices 200 tons of
> scap is worth $48,000. I'm not surprised that the hauler agreed to haul it
> off for free. I know; I have just hauled 4 VWs across the scrap scales in
> the last few days and have a few more to go. A beetle with everything
> there just as driven weighs out at about $200 in scrap value right now.
> Just goes to show what happens when someone is in charge trying to work for
> the betterment of mankind as they see it.
>
> One of the reasons that I have not been back for their VW show is that it
> appeared to be rip off for the promotor which appeared to be the local
> government.
>
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> *From:* Steve Chamberlain <steveraychamberlain@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> *Sent:* Sun, January 15, 2012 5:45:34 PM
> *Subject:* [tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>
> If you follow the link 'no more time to work out the bugs' you would get
> this:
>
> For a quarter of a century, Sunray Bugs was a destination for Volkswagen
> aficionados from around the world.
>
> If you had a VW Bug from the summer of love and you needed a windshield
> wiper, there was one man to call: Corky Yager. Rest assured, he'd jump in a
> golf cart and scoot across his 10-acre VW graveyard until he found the
> part. Then he'd restore it and ship it anywhere.
>
> "A lot of VW enthusiasts only want original German parts," office manager
> Paul Zappulla said. "They're superior to the duplicates they make in China
> now."
>
> But the VW graveyard, on U.S. 301 just north of Dade City, has been
> scraped bare. Pasco County Code Enforcement spent five days in December
> clearing the southern half of the property. Yager, 83, estimates the hauler
> removed 200 tons of metal from the site.
>
> For county officials, the cleanup was a victorious end to a protracted
> legal battle. They had successfully removed a longstanding eyesore at
> virtually no cost — because the scrap hauler agreed to clear the site at no
> charge. He earned his fee by keeping and selling all of the scrap metal.
>
> "It's the largest site I've ever dealt with, and I've been with the county
> since 2000," Code Enforcement Supervisor Patrick Phillips said. "It took
> five and half days. We were out there, it seemed like, the whole holidays.
> Some nights we didn't get out of there until 10 or 11 o'clock at night."
>
> Yager said he is devastated.
>
> "They stripped me of almost everything," he said. "They didn't just take
> my cars. They took motor homes and trailers that were full of parts. They
> crushed my forklifts and equipment.
>
> "It was my life."
>
> Sunray started as a hobby. Yager was 58 when he said he had a vision that
> led to his own field of dreams. A lifelong Cadillac owner, Yager had
> recently bought his first VW Beetle. He was at a veterans hospital in North
> Miami and had just undergone surgery for kidney stones. As he emerged
> groggily from the anesthesia, he began muttering something to the nurse.
>
> "They're everywhere, everywhere," he said. "Fields full of Volkswagens."
>
> So he started collecting every Beetle, Bus and Thing he could get his
> hands on. After 25 years, he had a field so full of Volkswagens it could be
> seen on Google Earth.
>
> "I would estimate there was anywhere from 800 to 1,000 vehicles," Phillips
> said. "It was a bona fide junkyard."
>
> One problem: He didn't have the proper zoning. Code enforcement wasn't
> aware of the violation until someone filed a complaint in 2009, Phillips
> said.
>
> Yager hired a lawyer and tried to keep the business. He took the county to
> court but eventually acquiesced and agreed to clean up the property. He
> crushed and sold 150 cars, but it barely made a dent in the horde, Phillips
> said.
>
> "There was no way to count them all," Phillips said. "When he crushed 150,
> you couldn't tell a difference."
>
> Tina Mazzarra, Yager's daughter, said her father tried his best to comply
> with the court order. "Dad was in the hospital four times during all this,"
> she said. "He had hired an attorney who he felt was looking out for his
> best interest. I don't think anyone involved ever dreamed (the county)
> would come in and seize half his business."
>
> The judge set a new deadline, Feb. 15, for Yager to clean up the rest of
> the property. He and his staff have spent the last several weeks pulling
> parts from the remaining vehicles and removing them from the site.
>
> Zappulla said the staff is trying to organize the inventory so Yager can
> keep the parts and repair business going.
>
> "I think the real test for my dad will come once the adrenaline wears off
> and he realizes everything he's worked for a huge part of it is gone,"
> Mazzarra said. "He's got to recreate his business."
>
> Yager always had a steady stream of loyal customers, according to Carol
> Jeffares Hedman, who organizes the annual Bug Jam. The event draws
> thousands of Volkswagen hobbyists to Dade City every November.
>
> After the festival, one of the largest VW events in the nation, a few
> collectors would always head over to Sunray Bugs, and there would be Corky
> — with a flashlight — helping them find a door handle and side mirror or
> factory-installed radio.
>
> "For those people, it's not a car — it's an obsession," said Hedman, a
> Tribune correspondent.
>
> You don't have to do facebook to follow the link.
>
> On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 4:58 PM, sammie smith <
> bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Steve: Some of us do not do Facebook, and therefore can't determine
> what the problem is. Can you enlighten us? I have also been to the Pasco
> County Bug Jam (once), didn't like it and haven't been back. Though the
> Bulli Brigade was good.
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> *From:* Steve Chamberlain <steveraychamberlain@xxxxxxxxx>
> *To:* tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; jack stratton <jjflashfl2003@xxxxxxxxx>
> *Sent:* Sun, January 15, 2012 4:14:19 PM
> *Subject:* [tcb] Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>
> I have attended the Pasco County Bug Jam (day after the Bulli Brigade)
> several times and was planning to go again in November. I would hope that
> some Florida residents would start a organized ban on Dade City and the Bug
> Jam. i will no longer support them.
>
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