'Most Ridiculous Thing Ever': Officials Split Building in Two to Solve Property Dispute

Does anyone else ever get depressed about how stupid this world has become? We're not evolving; we're going the opposite direction.

Just imagine if the farmer had built his shed on county property. Endless fines and fees.

A lot of people are missing the fact that the township didn't want to do this. The farmer saw this as a payday and was trying to extort money from them. They were willing to remove the part of the building that was on his land, but he refused to let them correct the issue; he said it was on his land, so no one could touch it. He didn't want it fixed because then he couldn't cash in on it. So they severed the part of the building on his property from the part on their property, and put a fence on the property line to ensure no claim can ever be made that anyone stepped across the property line. The township also told him that they will pay to have the remaining piece removed from his property at any time if he wants that to be done. He's just pissed off because he knows he'll never get that payday he was hoping for now. It wasn't a reasonable solution to a normal problem, but he purposely created a completely unreasonable problem for personal gain. If you research what happened, it seems pretty clear the farmer was the one who purposely forced this situation to happen, despite the way they tried to spin it in this news story.

If the farmer put anything outside of his property line accidentally, he would have been financially decimated, dragged through litigation, harassed and jailed if he didn't play along.

The people of that county need to file a lawsuit against the county and demand that all of the people involved get fired for misused plublic funds

If it was the farmers building on township property they would have fined him for every day the structure stood on public property, then went after him for cutting the building in two peices like they did. This sounds like a HOA more than a government entity.

My father and I built large houses. Any time we started a new home we would always find the property corners no matter how long it took so there could be no mistakes. One time it came up with a neighbor saying the one side driveway was on his property until we pulled a string and proved that his driveway was 1 1-2' over the line he couldn't get back in his house fast enough.

The farmer refused to have builders on his property, now he is stuck with a part of the building. What am I missing?

Thank God it wasn't a custody dispute...

They offered to move the building and the property owner said no, you can't come on my property. Why would he not let them move it. Something is not being mentioned.

Charge the town daily for leaving trash on your property.

So, he wouldn't let the crew on his property that were there to take down the building that was on his property. WTF does he expect?

Isn’t this like cutting off your nose to spite your own face?

He’s a farmer. Probably has a tractor/bulldozer or something. Pull it apart and dump it over the fence. Problem solved. Township has the rest of their building back. Everybody happy. Farmer bills them for labor.

"I stopped them from removing the building" then "Idk what to do there is part of the building still on my property" After he stopped them from removing it LOL

A town with a name like "Ruggles" says stay the hell away.

Lots of good metal for the farmer. ...or a big sign that says: "Welcome to Stupidville" LOL

Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble just drew a chalk line across the floor and shared the building. In the end, Bam Bam knocked it down. If I was the farmer, I would knock down the part they left on my side and throw the scrap pieces back over the fence.

But wait, if he doesn't want that slice of building on his property why didn't he let them on the property to take it down? What "damages" did he suffer from this.. how much did he demand from them? Something doesn't seem right here.

send the township rent for their structor on his property.