| HOOPER, Utah (AP) — A farmer has erected a backyard fence
made of three old cars sticking up in the air to send a message
to new neighbors that he can do whatever he wants on his property.
"This is just a fun way for me to say, `Hey boys, I'm still
here,'" Rhett Davis said. "This is my redneck Stonehenge."
Davis came up with the idea after neighbors who recently moved
into homes next to his hayfield complained about his farm.
"The people who bought the homes say, `Well, we love looking
into your yard and seeing the horses and the cattle, but we don't
like the flies, and we don't like the mosquitoes,' and when I
cut my field to bale it, they say, `We don't like the dust in
the air,' " Davis said.
Neighbors declined to comment to the Standard-Examiner of Ogden.
Davis said he offered to pay for half the cost of a fence between
his property and the others and to build it. He said his neighbors
declined the offer, saying it would block their view.
Davis said he used a backhoe to dig three large holes on the
edge of his property, then took three cars that had competed in
demolition derbies and planted them nose-first into the ground.
He said the cars were planted out of humor rather than spite.
He stressed that it's important for new residents to realize that
Hooper is a farming community.
"I respect that they're here and spent a lot on their homes,
but on the other hand, give me a little bit, too," Davis
said. "I've been here since I was 7 years old."
He said he doesn't intend to keep the cars up permanently.
"These can come out just as easy as they went in,"
Davis said. |