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Posted: 3/19/2013 4:47:23 AM EDT
FINALLY

A man who has dedicated nearly 30 years to building and living off of his 500-acre farm is facing having his entire way of life shut down by the state government.
Eustace Conway, 51, who has been called ‘The Last Great American Man’ for his rustic way of living, could lose his camp in the Appalachian Mountains, his home for the past three decades.
The Watauga County Planning Department in North Carolina has found several health and sanitary violations in his encampment and has threatened to condemn the buildings.


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Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:50:39 AM EDT
[#1]
Well I feel better
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:52:37 AM EDT
[#2]
Thats BULLSHIT!!!
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:52:58 AM EDT
[#3]
IIRC, he was running a camp that taught peple how to live primitively. Naturally that isn't very sanitary but NC should mind their own.

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Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:53:36 AM EDT
[#4]





his lumber is not properly marked!!!




even though he fells and cuts his own




.gov can't have this




we must make an example of this white guy






Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:54:06 AM EDT
[#5]
If they are worried about this guys sanitation they should go tour some of the trailer hoods in the area.  they would have a heart attack.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:54:20 AM EDT
[#6]


that tv show he did got him some unwanted attention
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:55:03 AM EDT
[#7]
What a load of shit! The guy owns the land, he is not bothering anyone so why does the goberment feel the need to bother this guy? They should mind their own damn business and leave the people alone!
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:55:17 AM EDT
[#8]

Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:55:43 AM EDT
[#9]
This type of shit will stop when there are consequences for their actions.

Until local people start standing up together, the gov(fed, state, local) will continue to run over us.


Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:56:13 AM EDT
[#10]
This is a shot across the bow of anyone wanting to buy land and live "off the land"....gov't don't like that....
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:56:47 AM EDT
[#11]
Non-labeled lumber!  The whole place could go any minute!  For your safety sir, we'll have to put you in prison for 9 years.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:56:49 AM EDT
[#12]
Quoted:


that tv show he did got him some unwanted attention


Nothing good comes from the media.............ever.

It is like a pet rattle snake, you only think you control it, but someday, it'll bite you.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:56:51 AM EDT
[#13]
In for the drone strike.

Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:57:37 AM EDT
[#14]
Quoted:
What a load of shit! The guy owns the land, he is not bothering anyone so why does the goberment feel the need to bother this guy? They should mind their own damn business and leave the people alone!


It's about control, just like 99.9% of everything else the gov does.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:58:15 AM EDT
[#15]
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:58:58 AM EDT
[#16]
That the same guy who was on the TV show? I see it is. I recognize his first name. I remember an episode where he was trying to show a newcomer how to shoot and not waste ammo IIRC.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:59:05 AM EDT
[#17]
almost time

Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:59:26 AM EDT
[#18]
Judging by some of the shit he pulled on the TV show I would say that he managed to fuck it up for himself...

The guy could live of the land that's for sure... Dealing with modern life and government proved to be quite challenging for him it seamed..
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 4:59:47 AM EDT
[#19]
Excellent thread title, OP.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:00:29 AM EDT
[#20]
Quoted:


that tv show he did got him some unwanted attention


Sooner or later people will figure out that all that attention is going to get the man in your life, so all your shit better be straight.

It doesn't matter if you are pulling logs out of a river illegally, running a mine without all the safety shit, or you violated a building code. Giving the man evidence of you doing something wrong is an easy win for them.

Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:00:37 AM EDT
[#21]
A prime example of an overreaching government. Leave this guy the F alone. If they are really worried about sanitation have a look at the thousands of tons of hog and chicken shit that leach into rivers and waterways every year.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:01:43 AM EDT
[#22]
I feel so much safer now.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:02:26 AM EDT
[#23]
I feel safer.



<rest of thoughts redacted>
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:02:53 AM EDT
[#24]
Next thing you know he'll want to grow an illegal vegetable garden in his front yard.  Nip it in the bud before chaos ensues.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:03:40 AM EDT
[#25]
He's preaching self reliance! We can't have that!
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:04:01 AM EDT
[#26]
It's for the children.  We must protect them.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:04:16 AM EDT
[#27]
Citizen Conway, you are fined 1000 credits for violation of the lumber marking and trafficking act.   Be well.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:04:42 AM EDT
[#28]
In a free land his countrymen, friends and unknowns, would take up arms and stand by his side.  In this land, we will bitch about how wrong this is and how our children won't know the freedoms our fathers knew.  Poor guy.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:05:10 AM EDT
[#29]
Quoted:
Thats BULLSHIT!!!


I agree.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:05:50 AM EDT
[#30]
North Carolina.



They really take the 'North' part of their name seriously, it seems.









Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:06:12 AM EDT
[#31]
We are truly fukked.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:06:13 AM EDT
[#32]



Quoted:


Next thing you know he'll want to grow an illegal vegetable garden in his front yard.  Nip it in the bud before chaos ensues.


It could turn into him making his own whiskey or *gasp* growing his own Marijuana.



 
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:07:39 AM EDT
[#33]
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:08:13 AM EDT
[#34]
Yay government.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:08:34 AM EDT
[#35]
Jesus.

And people still question why folks are paranoid.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:08:48 AM EDT
[#36]
Well that sucks. He probably should have never went on TV.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:09:09 AM EDT
[#37]
Mixed feelings.  It sounded like he was running a summer camp for children.  If a log cabin crashed down on a bunch of kids during a windstorm because the cabin didn't meet building code he'd never be able to pay off the lawsuits.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:30:16 AM EDT
[#38]
Quoted:
This type of shit will stop when there are consequences for their actions.

Until local people start standing up together, the gov(fed, state, local) will continue to run over us.




This.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:35:10 AM EDT
[#39]
Quoted:
Mixed feelings.  It sounded like he was running a summer camp for children.  If a log cabin crashed down on a bunch of kids during a windstorm because the cabin didn't meet building code he'd never be able to pay off the lawsuits.


Well thank God the government was there to save those kids.

I can't really express how fucked up that line of thought is.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:37:19 AM EDT
[#40]
I'd venture to speculate that someone has an interest in his property and knows how to get it.  
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:37:33 AM EDT
[#41]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Mixed feelings.  It sounded like he was running a summer camp for children.  If a log cabin crashed down on a bunch of kids during a windstorm because the cabin didn't meet building code he'd never be able to pay off the lawsuits.


Well thank God the government was there to save those kids.

I can't really express how fucked up that line of thought is.


Yeah like willing to go to war over poorly written news articles.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:43:46 AM EDT
[#42]
That whole self-reliance thing can give people the wrong idea. Can't have that.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:44:29 AM EDT
[#43]
Quoted:
If they are worried about this guys sanitation they should go tour some of the trailer hoods in the area.  they would have a heart attack.


Or maybe the highway rest stops.

Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:45:47 AM EDT
[#44]
Quoted:
What a load of shit! The guy owns the land, he is not bothering anyone so why does the goberment feel the need to bother this guy? They should mind their own damn business and leave the people alone!


It's a creative eminent domain application? not getting enough revenue out of such a large piece of property?

Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:49:42 AM EDT
[#45]
Quoted:
Mixed feelings.  It sounded like he was running a summer camp for children.  If a log cabin crashed down on a bunch of kids during a windstorm because the cabin didn't meet building code he'd never be able to pay off the lawsuits.


Metorites, sinkholes, floods, locusts,bears,wolves...
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:50:33 AM EDT
[#46]
Quoted:
Quoted:
Mixed feelings.  It sounded like he was running a summer camp for children.  If a log cabin crashed down on a bunch of kids during a windstorm because the cabin didn't meet building code he'd never be able to pay off the lawsuits.


Metorites, sinkholes, floods, locusts,bears,wolves...


Those are all Acts of Gods that you can't sue against.  In reality, meeting the rules protects your own ass.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:50:37 AM EDT
[#47]
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:51:55 AM EDT
[#48]
Quoted:
Thats BULLSHIT!!!


It's all going according to plan citizen.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:52:05 AM EDT
[#49]
Someone down there is in need of something much bigger to worry about.
Link Posted: 3/19/2013 5:56:12 AM EDT
[#50]



Quoted:



Quoted:


Quoted:

Mixed feelings.  It sounded like he was running a summer camp for children.  If a log cabin crashed down on a bunch of kids during a windstorm because the cabin didn't meet building code he'd never be able to pay off the lawsuits.




Metorites, sinkholes, floods, locusts,bears,wolves...




Those are all Acts of Gods that you can't sue against.  In reality, meeting the rules protects your own ass.
Exactly, because if everything was to code and a wind storm blew it down and killed a bunch of kids, nobody would even consider filing a lawsuit.





 
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