[tcb] Re: Fwd: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening

  • From: Rusty Herring <rustmah1@xxxxxxx>
  • To: Texas Coalition of Busses <tcb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sun, 15 Jan 2012 22:04:37 -0600

and they wonder why people are fid up with government!!!

If it can happen it will hapen to me????
 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.





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.






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.




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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Date: Sun, Jan 15, 2012 at 3:59 PM
Subject: [Arkansas VolkswagenVolksmeisters] sickening
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David Bruce Ellis
3:59pm Jan 15 
sickening


No more time to work out the bugs




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