It gets worse
The full article about the church eviction adds this pathetic detail:
"This is greed in its worst form - throwing a church on the street," said Daniel Richards, a one-armed neighbor who lives two doors down, as he loaded a U-Haul. "It's been a staple on the north end for 70 years."I'm sure a one-armed man helping to load the church's possessions would have made dramatic TV news footage but when I watched TV 20 last night and this morning the only story about the Sheriff's office I saw were about two minor arrests they made. How odd. They've never had trouble getting their cameras on Sheriff Williamson and his deputies in the past, such as their nearly non-stop coverage of Williamson in the aftermath of the tornado last year. Go figure.
The rest of the SJ-R article sounds like a bureaucratic version of hot potato with everyone trying to desperately avoid getting stuck with the blame. I still can't believe there wasn't a way to avoid this if someone had been on top of the situation.
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Will
I thought the same thing about the (unintended) Onion-esque reak to the story, especially when the shirtless new owner advised reporters to "step off the property". It would be funny if it weren't so sad.
Posted by: nancy | August 31, 2007 9:24 AM