Government Runs Amok---Yet Again

this is nothing new. funny it involves another dinosaur though. Used to be a gas station near a fruit stand in Dixon,ca. The owner had a brontosauros statue (nicknamed Dixie) made that looks vaguely in size to the one in the story, it sat for what had to be at least 25 years in the same spot with a little wire mesh fence around the outside. When he closed shop and sold it , (lots of people wanted it) the winning bidder ended up with the problem of not being able to have it in his yard. Apparently the original owner had listed it as a yard ornament, the city or county got involved (jerks) and stated it was too big to be called a lawn ornament for the new owner. I forget exactly what happened but I think they got away calling it an art piece after the right money moved around.

 

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I don't think he had it made, it was probably one of these:

 

lol, nope. Dixie was a bit bigger. see :



more info here:

http://www.frankwu.com/dixie1.html

 

Ever see the Maplethorpe Exhibt? our tax dollars at work. /img/vbsmilies/smilies/mad.gif   would rather have seen chimps fling feces on canvas.

 

Wow. Those poor little Sinclair dinosaurs are going to get complexes.
 

 

IDK, while I like the notion of this piece of improvised art and the other dinosaur too, I'd have a problem if it was located right next to my property. 

Something so big that is just haphazardly constructed should be temporary and disassembled after a reasonable period of time. 

To leave it up permanently, exposed to the weather, with no plan for its maintenance or any plan that assures its structural integrity is inviting disaster. It's not inconceivable that a big storm could blow pieces (imagine 2x4s with rusty nails) of this this off, endangering people, drivers and so forth. 

It's reasonable that local officials would want some kind of assurance that the thing is not going to be a hazard to the public. Imagine the liability that guy would incur if on a windy day a board flew off and hit a child and handicapped him permanently. 

While it may seem burdensome to you, KY, to have to get the necessary permits to do whatever construction you want to do, let me give you an example of why it's necessary-

Here in the NE, most towns and villages have occupied their locations for many, many generations. In the 19th century most homes were lit by gaslight-the gas having been manufactured at a local plant by burning coal and coke to produce the gas then piped to people's homes. The MGPs (manufactured gas plants) left huge deposits of coal tar- extremely poisonous and volatile-shallowly buried adjacent to their factories. This stuff sinks and migrates all over the place and into the water table. 

If you were to start digging out say, an in-ground pool on your property, which might be located near one of these deposits of coal tar, you could easily and inadvertently expose yourself and all your neighbors to a highly toxic soup of and flammable  and gaseous materials and would be liable for the cleanup  and the damage to everyone's health and property. The permit fees you must pay cover the cost of determining the safety and viability of such a project.

To me, it's reasonable to expect such due diligence from local governing agencies. It's a lot more expensive to fix a problem after the fact. 

 

So your idea is to eliminate all regulatory agencies and let anyone do whatever the hades they want regardless of how it might affect anyone else? Does the gulf oil disaster not provide a good example of what that brings?

Yes, I did read the article. This is what scares me:

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Interesting article and I have to say that the "Vermontosaurus"  is one cool sculputre!