Hog-farm trespassing suspects found guilty
From the East Central Indiana
Star Press comes the story of two people who were arrested for trespassing when they pulled off the road into someones driveway, stopping
before the gate and one of them got out of the car to look at a barn...
But wait - there's more:
bq. A jury Friday night convicted Ball State University history professor Abel Alves and his wife Carol Blakney of trespassing on Seldom Rest hog farm in October of 2002.
bq. "We're here because the defendants ignored that [no-trespassing] sign," Deputy Prosecutor Judi Calhoun told the jury.
And the real reason:
bq. Several months earlier, Blakney had filed a complaint against the Whiteheads with the Indiana Department of Environmental Management.
bq. As a result of the complaint, IDEM accused the Whiteheads of housing the pigs in an unpermitted barn and of allowing manure to be released from the barn. The Whiteheads took care of the alleged violations. Blakney stopped to show the barn to Alves because he had not seen it.
Using a lawsuit to settle a grudge - how American is that?
Heh...
Posted by DaveH at February 3, 2004 6:13 PM