[tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
- From: sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 19:29:29 -0800 (PST)
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/
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>On Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 7:24 PM, sammie smith <bugcollections@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
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>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
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>>If you follow the link 'no more time to work out the bugs' you would get
>>this:
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>>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
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>>>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.
>>>
>>>
>>>---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>From: David Bruce Ellis <notification+y2m4mmr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>Date: Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:59 PM
>>>Subject: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
>>>To: Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters <273828575961635@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>David Bruce Ellis posted in Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters.
>>> David Bruce Ellis 3:59pm Jan 15
>>>sickening
>>>No more time to work out the bugs
>>>www2.tbo.com
>>>For a quarter of a century, Sunray Bugs was a destination for Volkswagen
>>>aficionados from around the...
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