One of the most popular sites on the Net — and one of the best, if you are sort of twisted — has picked up on our local whitewater park drama. Fark.com — yes, Fark — has noted that the access road to the park has been blocked by neighboring property owners, citing a WSOC-TV report. A few of the more free-wheeling comments about our situation from the Farkers:
– Looks like a bunch of pissed-off, bored hicks.
– i live in Charlotte, and i really see no need whatsoever for a *whitewater* park in the middle of the damn city. ‘course, we didn’t want an arena for the Bobcats either, but they built that pretty damn quick too.
– Genius! Those old folks deserve an award of some kind, like an emmy, everyone gets those things.
– An assistant city attorney said both sides should try to work out an agreement. Brilliant! Hey, Mr. Attorney, how about helping out with the Israeli/Palestinian conflict next? “Both sides should try to work out an agreement”? Gosh, why didn’t anyone ever think of that before?
– Plan a NASCAR event for that road.
– You don’t start work until you have secured access. The key word being “secured”. As in a deeded easement recorded at the city or county.
– hillbillies wit nuttin els ta dew
– They are going about it all wrong. They shouldn’t put up a barricade. They should put up a toll booth.
– Charlotte rednecks are the worst kind.
– Sounds to me like the developer is a moron for not verifying a right-of-way prior to construction. The residents are exercising their rights — why do you have a problem with that?
And on and on it goes. The unifying theme: Charlotte does not have a clue what it is doing. How’s that for great PR, Center City Partners? We getting our money’s worth yet?
For the record, I do not think the property owners are rednecks or hillbillies, but the world is going to draw its own conclusions and go looking for easy blame when you have such a completely bizarre situation. The blame, of course, is easy enough to correctly fix: Every elected official who voted for this deal and every government employee who touched it.
Each and every one of you, you have been Farked. Enjoy it.
