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Maj John Bell
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When you buy property with a Home Owner's Association or in a zoned community, this is what you get. You get some "protections" and you give up some "freedom." I bought a farm 19 years ago and I continually have to deal with "down-staters" who just love the rural life, and move to Northern Michigan; until the have to experience the realities of the rural life. Everything across the road from my farm is "Lake Front" Vacation Homes or Vacation Rentals.

Complaints I had to deal with at Township meetings
-I let livestock breed and birth in the open
-Manure being spread on fields stinks (Who would have thought manure stinks?)
-Roosters crowing, Horsed whinnying, Goats bleating
-Male goats stink
-My truck tracks mud on the road when I leave a muddy pasture
-Horses are mean to each other (kids shouldn't have to see that).
-Live stock butchering visible. (Memorial Day, July 4th, and Labor Day Farm Open house and pig/goat roast potlucks)
-I don't let their kids play in the pastures with my livestock.
-You get Jail time and a fine if your July 4th fireworks burst in or over pasture with livestock.

Fortunately, the complaints get about 2 minutes of uproarious laughter in this township; and then we move on to serious business. I am sure that if I moved into the posh neighborhoods down state and wanted to farm, I'd get laughed at too. Just be sure you know what you buy into.
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MSgt John Taylor
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Unless you live out in the sticks, keep your bugle playing indoors. Taps does not have to be played outside for your neighbors to enjoy.
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SPC Kevin Ford
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It wouldn't bother me if my neighbor played taps. Heck I'd invite him to come over and do it at my flagpole.

Having said that, I don't speak for everyone and I live in a very rural area. I can understand how it may be problematic for some people in a densely populated neighborhood for a variety of reasons.
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