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I grew up, went to school, and lived in Lenawee County. They must have some real turds running it now.

So they want to demolish Amish homes with no indoor plumbing, but San Francis allows schitting on the sidewalks.

Good post Geno.

There's been a few things written over the span of man's time here on earth. One of them has something to do with glass houses.

And many of the people commenting here have, in all likelihood, never seen a real live Amish person, let alone lived amongst them.

Some of them Amish chicks is pretty hawt.

The amish have plenty of cash...

When they come to the hospital they pay the total bill on their way out the door.

Hey, if we're going to allow the amish to practice their religion I guess the muslims should be allowed the same freedom, right?

Actually, I'm trying to state that some horse crap on the road, or a slow buggy in front of me, isn't such a big deal. Whether or not I pay more road tax than the buggy owners or not.

Are places aren't so dissimilar. We have slow cows, farm tractors and haying equipment, Spray rigs, Granny Farm Lady that drives to town once a month and pulls out in front of you even though there's three miles of empty road behind you, and you folks are lucky in that it rains every so often even in summer. Cow crap on our roads might be there for months before the next storm comes in September. 60-90 days without rain here is not a drought.

I'm not sorry you have to drive though a horse apple or two. It's really not a big deal.

And the Amish are not the only folks that try to get away with dumping crap where it ain't supposed to be. And the rancher lovers, or the industry lovers have a fit thinking their local job providers are being picked on. Happens everywhere James.

Geno

Nothin' a good skinny dip at the swimmin' hole can't fix. Don't even have to worry what them gals look like without their "warpaint" on, like Englishers.

Geno

Kinda like what you're doing....

So you have a little horse manure on the side of the road....big deal. I have a 75 acre mowing lot across the street from me that they spread the slurry out 3-4 times a year. Sure it smells, but such is life. And yes, there is manure and mud on the road as well. If you don't like it, move to a city.

Lack of slow moving triangles, that would be your state then because in PA, they need them on. Wearing a seat belt and doing 70mph is a bit different than not wearing them in a horse drawn carriage.

Lack of indoor plumbing, I know families that didn't have indoor plumbing into the mid 1960's. State should have zero say on the matter.

I live in western Pa. and I'm surrounded by old order amish. There are a lot of them that I don't care for. All but two of my neighbors are amish. Two of them are very good friends. I give the one's boys fishing lures. They have some ways that are different, no arguement there. However, I don't have to worry about anything getting stolen. There are amish thieves, no doubt. That goes with any group of people. They help out all of their neighbors too.

They must be hawt cause they sure smell like they sweat a lot!

Amish are not hazardous to your health.

There is a tiny school going up to Junior High in the County north of here. It's part of a bigger district. The Amish/Mennonites control that school. We used to play them in basketball. It was a great day when my kids got into high school and didn't have to play them anymore. Dirty players, refs that constantly cheated, a substandard gym always filled to the brim with their crowd that was outright hostile to visiting spectators. I always felt like I was gonna get my throat cut in that town out in the middle of nowhere.

I can remember when my grandparents' house first got a flush toilet. As long as their septic systems (or privies) aren't contaminating their neighbor's water wells. Or in an urban setting, where outhouses don't make sense.

Neither of which is the case here, so I agree the govt should butt the *&$# out.

There's 100,000's summer homes, hunting camps in Michigan than still use outhouses and let dish and bathing water go in a ditch to where ever.....I have a home in a township that at least 20% of the houses don't even have a legal septic field.....

Lenawee County land price have sky rocked in the past 10 years....it's also big buck territory.....the county would rather have 10 millennial buy 5-10 acres on splits of a Amish farm build a $750,000 house and pay big taxes.....

There worried about maybe 100 Amish "turds".....there was 1,000,000,000 gallons of "turds" dumped in Lk.St.Clair from a storm on January 19.....and up to 1,000,000,000,000 gallons a year....but its ok for the government to do it....

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I cant copy and paste it on my phone.

Would the MI government bother them if they were Muslims?

There's a little Fargo in many small towns.

Yes,

Zoroastrians, Sikhs, and the Yanomamo too.

Heck, even the Scientologists get to stay here and "worship" as they see fit.

Geno

I thought Moslems basically gang up in a neighborhood and run it without interference from anyone.

I'm not sure about the Amish, but I did grow up in the midst of the Mennonites in Southern Ontario. Our family farm dealt with many of them many times over the years and I never once heard my father talk them down in any way, nor have I ever heard anyone complain about what their horses do on the side of the road.

I'd rather have them for neighbours than a lot of other so called "normal" folk.