Elderly Owner Forced to Get Rid of his 32-Year-Old Horse
This isn't a local story, but I found out about it from the Peninsula Daily News last week, in that “Quick Read” section at the bottom of page three. I also posted about it at my other blog. Other bloggers have written about it and it’s gradually getting some publicity.
In the small town of Hickman, Nebraska (with a population of just over 1,000), 76-year-old Harley Scott owns a 32-year-old horse. The town of Hickman has a law against any livestock within the “city” limits, but this law was never enforced. Now all of a sudden, the Hickman mayor and city council have decided to start enforcing this law with a vengeance.
The only “livestock” in Hickman is Harley Scott’s horse, and the city government is saying the horse has to go. NOW.
This “no livestock” ordinance was passed twenty years ago — twelve years AFTER Harley Scott already had his horse on his own property. But this doesn’t seem to matter to the Hickman Mayor and city council.
Last week, after some local protests, the city council debated whether to modify the no-livestock ordinance. They could either make an exception for horses, or even just grandfather that one horse in. Nope. They voted to keep the ordinance exactly as is. Harley Scott has to get rid of his horse immediately.
Here is a petition that’s been going around the Internet. It’s asking Hickman Mayor Jim Hrouda and the Hickman City Council to allow Harley Scott to keep his horse on his own property, where the horse has lived his entire life.
A local development group, the Hickman Area Economic Development Association (HAEDA) is behind this push to get this icky horse out of their town so it'll be more attractive to the newcomers who are moving in. In case you'd like to offer a few choice words to this organization, their phone number is: (402) 792 – 2212.
Also, the Hickman city government has gotten so many e-mails about this scandal that their server has been crashing. That e-mail address is:
CityManager@ckt.net
I hope you'll utilize this information. City governments need to be stopped from bullying their citizens.
Here are some more links to this story.
In the small town of Hickman, Nebraska (with a population of just over 1,000), 76-year-old Harley Scott owns a 32-year-old horse. The town of Hickman has a law against any livestock within the “city” limits, but this law was never enforced. Now all of a sudden, the Hickman mayor and city council have decided to start enforcing this law with a vengeance.
The only “livestock” in Hickman is Harley Scott’s horse, and the city government is saying the horse has to go. NOW.
This “no livestock” ordinance was passed twenty years ago — twelve years AFTER Harley Scott already had his horse on his own property. But this doesn’t seem to matter to the Hickman Mayor and city council.
Last week, after some local protests, the city council debated whether to modify the no-livestock ordinance. They could either make an exception for horses, or even just grandfather that one horse in. Nope. They voted to keep the ordinance exactly as is. Harley Scott has to get rid of his horse immediately.
Here is a petition that’s been going around the Internet. It’s asking Hickman Mayor Jim Hrouda and the Hickman City Council to allow Harley Scott to keep his horse on his own property, where the horse has lived his entire life.
A local development group, the Hickman Area Economic Development Association (HAEDA) is behind this push to get this icky horse out of their town so it'll be more attractive to the newcomers who are moving in. In case you'd like to offer a few choice words to this organization, their phone number is: (402) 792 – 2212.
Also, the Hickman city government has gotten so many e-mails about this scandal that their server has been crashing. That e-mail address is:
CityManager@ckt.net
I hope you'll utilize this information. City governments need to be stopped from bullying their citizens.
Here are some more links to this story.
Labels: Harley Scott Hickman, Hickman Area Economic Development Association HAEDA, Hickman Nebraska, Jim Hrouda
posted by Tom Harper at 3:11 PM
2 Comments:
This is a local issue in a way. Fast growing places like Sequim, this same thing could happen with all these Seattle and California refugees moving in. They thought they wanted to live in the country but when they get there they complain about the people that were already there.
I'll sign that petition.
How about those developers, they want "limited government" so they can build anywhere they want, and then they want a huge meddlesome government so they can run a landowner off his own property.
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