4 killed in front yard

[Dee Dee]

Richard,
You are right on. That's pretty much what happened to a guy who removed a memorial in his neighborhood here. Not quite that blunt from the media but the general concensus was that the man was being insensitive to the family's grief.

 

[Charlotte Dixon]

In other words...anything can happen, either way. Guess this is another one of these subjects where the final outcome can not be predicted. I know of an instance around here where an owner's front yard was made in to a memorial. The homeowner kindly called the family and asked that it be removed. It was removed...no press...no nothing. In another instance there was a memorial along a roadway and the state workers mowed it down because it was grown up with weeds and he didn't see it. All hell broke loose.

 

[Anonymous]

Agree w/ Goodpasture. Very difficult to quantify and I would simply report it and say, damifino.

I can relate to grief, but I promise you if someone is ever killed on my road frontage (and I have 3/4 mile of it), no memorial will stand long. After a while (7 yr. in my state) it is possible for someone to go to court and claim color of title. I am appraising a property with 5 acres missing because the former owner allowed a guy to access a difficult to access parcel from the legal way thru his own property. Big mistake. Guy went to court and ended up with an easement and 1/2 a hillside. The subject is a custom log home in the $250K range but he has to allow this turkey to use his 1/2 mi. long driveway about 600 yd, then a chunk of hillside the guy simply included in the deed description he took to court claiming he had "adversely possessed it" for 7 yr. The property is a junky mob. home that is easily visible from the man's driveway.

Stigma tends to dissolve with time depending. Randall Bell's book on Detrimental Conditions is excellent on the subject.

 

[Oregon Doug]

Stigma, ain't it grand! You'r gonna be wrong, no matter what!

Oregon Doug (from out where it's legal to bury gramps in the back yard!)