Moves next to a dog food plant, complains about smell

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Things like this happened all over Long Island. Race tracks had to close down, Drag strips closed down
A family member tells me a race track in Myrtle Beach closed down not to long ago as well.

From what I understand it also happens a lot near farms that were there long before communities. Also rural homes that may have had horses, or raised animals/pets like Lama's

We are now live in a society of many cry babies who are victims of everyone else except for their own ignorant choices. Always looking for someone else to solve their own poor choices in life.
 
They need a move to Sioux City, Iowa. The whole city smells like a packing plant. Most people call it Sewer City.:cautious:
 
Not far from me is a small town that has a large park that's owned by the Lions Club. In the summer they hold tractor pulls and demo-derbys and a county fair and other events.

During the last several years the farms and empty land around them have been getting replaced with houses and town-homes, and now the people who live near it complain about the noise and traffic on the nights that they have events.

The new residents are trying hard to squeeze them out.

Last summer I noticed that they did something that I think is genius. They built a little veterans memorial right next to the grandstand area. It's not much, basically a circle of flags from each military branch, and I think a plaque that's attached to a stone that says a nice story about our brave men and women and what-not.

I'm guessing this little memorial was someone's idea to get people to stop complaining so much about the park.

Even the angriest Karen in the world would have to think twice before demanding the city shut down and bulldoze a place that has a veterans memorial in it.

Hopefully it works and the place can stay for a few more decades.
 
captainbeandip said:
Last summer I noticed that they did something that I think is genius. They built a little veterans memorial right next to the grandstand area. It's not much, basically a circle of flags from each military branch, and I think a plaque that's attached to a stone that says a nice story about our brave men and women and what-not.

I'm guessing this little memorial was someone's idea to get people to stop complaining so much about the park.

Even the angriest Karen in the world would have to think twice before demanding the city shut down and bulldoze a place that has a veterans memorial in it.

Hopefully it works and the place can stay for a few more decades.
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Not sure what to think about using a veteran memorial to keep a park from being shut down if that's the true reason the memorial was built. :unsure:
 
there is a shooting range in Kirkland Wa that has been there for a long time. last couple of years they have literally built houses next to it . not cheap house but over million dollar ones. i don't see if lasting more than 5 more years . just need a good lawsuit to bankrupt them
 
When I was a kid I lived a couple of miles away from a range where people would shoot clay pigeons. I would hear the shooting in the summertime and would sometimes ride my bike there and watch people shoot.

Now it's gone and there are a bunch of houses there instead.

It's sad how this same type of story plays out everywhere across the country. Usually in places that used to be small towns, but are now victims of urban sprawl.
 
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We live under the flight plan for KSBA (SBA) which previously was MCAS Santa Barbara during WW2. My family moved here to work on the Aero Spacelines Guppy. I think it is hilarious when people knowingly move here, ignore the airport existing a couple miles from their house, ignore the planes flying over the houses they are looking at, then complain about the noise.
 
Opelman said:
Give the houses near airports and railroad tracks to deaf people. Problem solved.
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My Son is deaf. They feel vibrations much more acutely than us. Knock on his door loudly and he will open it up.
Kind of like a top fuel or funny car at the dragstrip. You can feel them in your entire body, deaf or not.
 
It is funny how people are. Around here people will buy homes along the area of the Houston ship channel due to the chemical and oil and gas plants. Plenty of work and the money is good. Then they will complain about the smell and the flares going off at the plants. Solution is to move and work else where. Guess complaining is easier.
 
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Jdeere562 said:
They need a move to Sioux City, Iowa. The whole city smells like a packing plant. Most people call it Sewer City.:cautious:
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IIRC Ottumwa IA had the nickname of the armpit of America when it was a major slaughterhouse city, Many brands had facilities there
 
Finklejag said:
I lived in Denver and drove by this plant often on I-70, and yes you could smell the aroma. This plant has been there for 94 years. I doubt anybody was living in the surrounding neighborhoods for 95+ years before the plant was built. It’s like those people that buy a house near an airport then complain about the noise.


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From my understanding Purina used to control the odor much better back in the day. Couple this with higher demand and you have more smell. I used to drive down that way somewhat frequently and don't remember seeing housing? Along that stretch of I-70 it's mostly fast food places a few really shady motels which are being torn down and then commercial properties.
 
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From my understanding Purina used to control the odor much better back in the day. Couple this with higher demand and you have more smell. I used to drive down that way somewhat frequently and don't remember seeing housing? Along that stretch of I-70 it's mostly fast food places a few really shady motels which are being torn down and then commercial properties.
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There's definitely some housing on those surface streets. I'm lost down there about once a year on average. We can procure better deals for my non-profit if we pick up directly.

I'll never forget one time we had a particularly nasty guard at the gate. She was an angry woman and was very annoyed with our presence. NOW, I don't blame her -- their yard (which is really tight) is set up for OTR trucks. Non-profits like us show up in pickups with trailers and we must look like amateur hour, comparatively.

I'm all about putting our best foot forward when representing my non-profit so I'm not going to demand more respect as I would if I were procuring goods for myself.

She basically yelled at me, "Do you see all these trucks!!?" as I'm facing a wall of nothing but trucks. Anyway she told me to pull off to the side and I was so concerned with not making her angry(ier) that I took out a 55gal drum trash can with my trailer. I'm a better driver than that but failed spectacularly in my attempts to not give her further cause to find us annoying!

I straightened up the trash can immediately and chuckled about it -- it was literally laugh or cry at that point and I can't help a gate guard who already clearly hates her life (shrug).

Purina's been really good to us overall. All the forklift operators are AMAZING, and that's an understatement. Truly patient and skilled when loading our trailers.

This run was three trailers total. Two owned by my non-profit, a 24' deckover and 16' utility trailer:
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And tarping my 18' car hauler in case of rain on the drive home:
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