Kingdom Of Junk Keeps Growing

Semmes Property  A judge has given a Semmes man until Monday to clean up his junky property.
by Tiffany Craig
Published: Thu, January 22, 2009 - 6:51 pm CST
A judge has ordered a Semmes man to clean up his property over and over again. It's just not working.

In January 2008, Paul Hamman was charged with criminal littering and it's easy to see why. The minute you drive around the corner of Redstone Drive East, you can see the towers of trash and junk cars scattered all over his property.

Mary Adams lives across the street and says Hamman hasn't been cleaning up at all. Hamman says that's not true. "I work everyday some. It's difficult and hard for me to get moving in the cold."

After multiple extensions, the judge has ordered Hamman back to court on Monday the 26th.

The judge could sentence Hamman to jail time or order him to pay a fine of more than 250 dollars.
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Then you have these “reporters” with nothing else to do apparently and they like to “stir” the community up too.  This is no different than being a racist when you go interview one person and try to turn them on their neighbor.

The people who are against this man, let me set another scenario for you.  With the economy like it is, maybe you already have a car that isn’t much, but you don’t have a payment on it and you are proud to drive it.  What if a neighbor decides he don’t like the looks of your car sitting out in your front yard and complains about it.  I guess you are going to have to go buy a newer car or get a paint job good enough to satisfy your neighbor. When they start telling people what they can and cannot have on their property and they don’t live in area where it is supervised, you better look out about anything you do or have on your property because you are going to be next. 

I don’t like the way people up and down my road don’t mow their grass or have dogs in their front yard who have just torn things up, but I can’t do a thing about it nor would I want too because I would hate for someone to call the law every time someone threw a can in my yard or piece of paper blew over in my yard.

This is no Free Country! If you don’t have alot of money and have “People” Then ur just out of luck! They need to leave this man alone. I wish the people around where I lived would do sumthing like this. O would I be one mad person!! If you don’t pay the bills or pay the tax on the land then you should have no say in what goes on there!! People should just mind their on business!

Not to talk down on anyone’s living conditions, but I know the area, and there’s no million dollar homes within a few miles. This junk has been there since “98” I know for a fact because I use to travel the area frequently. He’s sitting on a gold mine in scrap metal alone, and you can’t expect me to believe with the price of scrap now that no one would come and haul it away for the metal alone. However, the last time I checked America was called a “FREE COUNTRY” and the man owns the property. I’m not a big fan of dogs and cats, but if my neighbor wanted 50 dogs and was properly taken care of them, than that’s his business. People should really worry more about “them and theirs” rather worry about “you and yours”. Don’t get me wrong, I understand it looks hideous, but so do houses with PURPLE paint, and BABY PUKE GREEN shutters, and no one calls in the mayor and police on them.

Get real, he’s a horder. If you had this guy’s garbage next to your home, you’d be screaming blue murder. We are told that monitors and TV’s contain hazardous waste such as lead and mercury. It looks like a toxic waste dump. He’s a nuisance. Why should his neighbors have to look at that garbage much less worry about what it’s leaching into the soil?

bamabob i believe i heard or read it was inherited and he brought it in.

Did this guy haul all that junk to his property, or did it become a dropping off point for others?

I would like to know the history of this one.  Did he buy the property, or inherit it?

Everyone talks about moving if you don’t like it but you couldn’t sell your property if you lived by something like this. I would be his biggest nightmare, and the old people were there before him. He is not an old man he is middle aged. Just nasty!

I live in the county in a subdivision and there are some rules to live with.  I like that and it is one reason I chose to buy a house in the area.  But, once ya drive out of the subdivision, it looks like anything goes.  A couple of houses, a manufacturing company, a couple of houses, a couple of businesses, a couple of churches and smack in the middle of it someone started a automotive parts yard, which can easily be seen from all angles while on the main road.

Apparently all of his junk has some value, so all the new homes and subdivisions near the schools just have to live with it.  Go figure…..

Sirk does make a good point though.  This junk collection doesn’t look like it just started a few months ago.  If it has been that way for years and years and people decided to build their homes next to it then complain, I’m thinking tough nookies.

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