If some organization somewhere gives an award for the best Redneck story of the year, then this one is a shoe-in. It's a sad story, but just too Rednecky not to pass along.
It has every element necessary. First off, it happened in Nicholas County, KY. Two boys that I was friends with growing up live there now. Their Daddy retired from the Air Force and settled back there where he grew up. Man, the stories they can tell about their neighbors...
It seems that the Sheriff is a wiry, chain-smoking fellow named Dick Garrett, who ran for re-election with the slogan "More Dick in 2006." He has an entire staff of one deputy.
Then you throw in the heroine, a 35-year-old grandmother living in a trailer with 11 other people, plus pets. Then you find out that she was able to purchase her first trailer on her own at 35 with money from an auto accident settlement. Then you throw in a $200 trailer mover named "Pancake" Meyers, a hard decision made by Sheriff Dick, and a homeless Redneck family at Thanksgiving...well, this is sure one for the books.
The best line from the story has to be this one. Speaking of Sheriff Dick, the reporter writes: "...maintains that anybody who thinks it's a fine plan to pay somebody $200 to move their 25-year-old home, all their belongings, and a passel of pets with a farm tractor can't exactly complain when things go wrong.
"I know I wouldn't pay somebody $200 to move my house and everything in it," said Garrett, noting that the group didn't have a required permit or escort. Basically, he said, he could have arrested the lot of them: Barton, her brood and the hauler. The charge, he said: "being ignorant."
Only in Kentucky? Probably not. Check it out, and just shake your head. This one gets my vote!
Sounds just like one of the tenants in my trailer park - irritating up close but fun to talk about later.
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