Oldsmobile...extra crispy

[Richard]

I as others have some issues with trespassers. We also have issues with morons like this.

Our largest neighbor is our lovable TVA. TVA allows pretty much anything on their land as it seems..with no stipulations.

This dude says he took his car back into the woods..(this is 4x4 territory..though the pics don't show it as well)..left it “unguarded”, went 4 wheeling with his buddy, came back to find car ravaged. Says he then put battery in to start car (??) and car fire started.

I noticed no rear licsnse plate & asked..he said it didn't have one. [hmmm] I'm personally suspect at the story, but TVA police DID have their chat with him, as did the fire department.

Supposedly, he is 'on the hook' to remove the car or suffer the mighty wrath of TVA..so far..4 weeks later. He has left, seemingly abandoned the car and evidently mocked TVA.

We'll see.

I think it takes a particularly dull set of brain cells to take your car where this one was.

 

[Richard]

view looking down hill...the owner is one of the three dudes..the "near" one on left is my neighbor so no need to lampoon him!! /w3tcompact/icons/grin.gif

 

[Golfgar4]

<font color=blue>..left it “unguarded”, went 4 wheeling with his buddy, came back to find car ravaged.</font color=blue>

Man, you guys must have some really mean squirrels down there /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif!!

 

[Richard]

another angle

 

[Richard]

kinda of a side shot with Brutus in background. I held camera as "flat" as I could, so Brutus gives idea of slope.

Carrying out the car will be no issue for Brutus I don't think. Simply lifted the car as easily as one may lift their 2 year old..

Told him I'd take it out of the woods to road for $200. He coughed... I figure, no problme..you can deal with TVA if you like..

 

[Richard]

This area seems to attract some real slime type. Recently found some garbage bags..walked over to look..found them full of SMALLER, wrapped plastic bags..thought I'd found a drug drop!! /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

Upon taking a stick and poking around some..turns out the larger bags are full of smaller bags which are full of used diapers

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I've called TVA police and they "supposedly" are going to come out, retrieve them and sift through to see if they can find the accidental piece of junk mail with enlightening address informatin on it..I said GREAT..so far..nothing.

We, the locals, are stuck looking at this dump site every day on "public" land that USED to be FAMILY land prior to TVA obsconding it..but that is another issue../w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif /w3tcompact/icons/mad.gif

 

[TerryinMD]

There is a certain segment of society who does not give a rats A$$ about who owns what or what they do on someones property - public or private. They are the bottom feeders of life and for some odd reason wish to remain there. /w3tcompact/icons/shocked.gif

All that you can really do is shake you head, remind the authorities, and most important, know that you do not live that way.

Terry

 

[Chuck52]

Richard,

Congratulations to your family for managing to hold on to any of your property along a TVA lake! I'm originally from Loudon. My mother attended school with a lady who told TVA they would have to forcibly remove her from the land her family had owned for generations along the Little Tennessee. Of course they did. I think they took all her land even though only a relatively small part was to actually be covered by the lake, but I could have that wrong.

As I recall, finding abandonded wrecks in the East Tennessee woods was not all that unusual. Finding the guy who abandoned it, now that's unusual. He must represent the lower intelligence range of such folks...and you say he could actually speak?

Chuck

 

[Mark_in_NH]

Richard and or Chuck,
What does TVA stand for ? Who are they ?

 

[Chuck52]

The Tennessee Valley Authority. I think it was established as part of Roosevelt's New Deal as a semi-autonomous government agency. It's original reason for being was to provide flood control of the Tennessee river and it's tributaries, and to provide hydroelectric power as a side product. It is/was to the Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama region what the Army Corps of Engineers is/was to the areas it served. Which means it did some good things and some bad things. The Tellico dam was the last major project it undertook (right Richard?). The Tellico dam flooded the lower Little Tennessee valley. While the Little Tennessee river already had dams upstream, TVA said the new dam would provide additional flood control so the people in Chattanooga who built in the flood plain of the Tennessee river wouldn't have to collect on their flood insurance so often. The additional water was also supposed to add electric generating capacity to the Fort Loudon dam. The new lake was going to bring in lots of new industry to an economically disadvantaged area. Local people came down on both sides of the issue. My extended family did have some land which TVA bought for the new lake, but I was not familiar with the land and had no attachment for it. On the other hand, some really beautiful contryside was flooded, and many people lost land they did not want to part with. Some said TVA took much more land than was needed for the lake and then sold it as lakeside lots for a hefty profit. I moved out of Tennessee at about that time and am no expert in the facts. I was familiar with the area before the lake, and though Tellico Lake is beautiful, I feel a sense of loss whenever I go through there....and I see I am rambling on long after answering your question.

Chuck