A farmer was denied a permit to build a horse shelter so he takes another route:

[Are_grits_groceries]

“@shervin: Farmer denied permit to build horse shelter. So he builds giant table & chairs which don't need permit. I love this.
:large

Ha!

[MADem]

1. Hey...it's AAAAAAAAAAAAHT!!! Like a skull-pcha!!!

Love it!

[TheDebbieDee]

46. Yes, it is! Very creative and very outside-the-box thinking!

[CherokeeDem]

2. I love this man....

bet TPTB will try to find a way to make him tear these down.....

Way to go, Mr. Farmer.....

[The Wielding Truth]

17. Hope you read Reply #4. No permit denial.

[Politicalboi]

19. He should claim it's art

What a great idea he had.

[mahatmakanejeeves]

23. It's a conspiracy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg



http://oldenburgvanbruggen.com/largescaleprojects/lsp.htm

[OnyxCollie]

37. That's right downtown!

Whooo! Represent!

[JohnnyRingo]

40. Cleveland!

I haven't seen it in a while, and I'd almost forgotten about it, but I recall it was right downtown. Perhaps they moved it (?).

Thanks for posting that.

[adieu]

27. Even if art

it could require a permit. Public arts all require permits.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. Creative Thinking at it's best!

[shraby]

4. anyone know where this is at?

[FSogol]

10. Germany. It was an advertisement for a lumber company, nothing to do with permits or rw fantasies.

Check out snopes.

[Cobalt-60]

22. Well the giant furniture is cool anyway

[JHB]

28. Link here:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/horseshelter.asp

[Whisp]

33. o darn. but it was nice believing the Op for a few minutes.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

42. Oh good, because I couldn't understand how that was going to be much of a shelter.

[Honeycombe8]

44. Makes sense. That setup doesn't provide much shelter. nt

[patrice]

5. It's art! nt

[TeeYiYi]

6. Maybe he could cover his sculpture...

...with a tarp during the winter months to protect it from the elements...?

TYY

[demmiblue]

7. Snopes:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/horseshelter.asp

[yesphan]

8. Anyway,

very clever.

[demmiblue]

9. Yes, it is.

What a great form of advertising!

[hollysmom]

26. that is good it is real

I was thinking maybe the horses were really very very small - lie the farmer was dabbling in genetics or something.

[joeybee12]

11. Looks very Lilliputian to me...it's not so much that the table and chairs look big...

But it makes it seem like the horses are really small.

[RC]

12. The horses seem to eat less that way.

[eppur_se_muova]

41. ! nt

[libodem]

13. Very cool

Awesome.

[Dont call me Shirley]

14. Truly art as life, this one :-)

[dipsydoodle]

15. Thanks for posting

[BlancheSplanchnik]

16. beggin for table scraps, I see....

that's how they get spoiled, you know.

[quakerboy]

18. Cool advertisement

Too bad the RW has tried to co opt it - Govt is bad, they wont let the poor horsies have a shelter, see the clever man get around the bad government.

[midnight]

20. What a creative solution... So glad this farmer didn't give up, and protected those

beautiful animals...

[mojowork_n]

43. It's a clever print ad for a lumber company in Germany.

No actual horses were harmed, or sheltered.

But that's some fine Photoshop work.

[Baitball Blogger]

21. Look at the miniature horses!

[Whisp]

34. I think I see Edith Ann on one of those chairs....

[Liberal_in_LA]

24. lol. Love it.

[kentuck]

25. Very creative!

Great !

[tclambert]

29. Maybe those are just cat-sized horses.

[Shankapotomus]

30. That pic is disorienting as hell

my mind keeps going back and forth between photoshop/real/photoshop/real.

surreal

[riderinthestorm]

32. I've seen the pic before and read the story. Its real, not a photoshop! Very cool isn't it? nt

[HooptieWagon]

31. Reminds me of a family friend...

The guy owned a boatyard in Florida. Got divorced, so wanted to build a bachelor pad on the boatyard property. No dice, the boatyard was zoned for boat repair and storage. So the guy built a "houseboat" permanently mounted on pilings on shore. Had a barge-type "hull", complete with bottom paint. FL boat registration numbers. Electric and plumbing ran up inside the pilings, hidden from view. He lived there several years, until he sold the yard.

[Auntie Bush]

35. LOL-What a clever farmer-

Just sent it to severalf friends.

[Lex]

48. It's not true. He wasn't denied a permit.

Check snopes before sending stuff like this.

[OnyxCollie]

36. LOL!

It's funny because it's not a forced perspective.

And I got four hours of sleep.

[bluestate10]

38. Clever. nt

[Logical]

45. This is not true! Old story that was debunked! n-t

[bvar22]

47. One of the reasons we now live where we have chosen to live:

No Building Permits

No Inspections

No Zoning

No Home Owners Associations

No Bullshit

When we want to build something,.... we build it.
If it falls down... too bad.

[Lex]

49. Well good for you but the permit denial in this horse story is bullshit.

How about that.

[Logical]

50. The farmer built them to promote his business. Not to bypass city laws. n-t

[cleanhippie]

51. Where do you live?

No government at all?

[ToxMarz]

54. Somalia

[bvar22]

55. In 2006, we moved to a very rural area of West-Central Arkansas.

We are in the Ouachita Mountains, close to Oklahoma.
We DO have "government".

Minimum Health, Safety, and Environmental standards are enforced by the State and County.
Nobody can start a toxic waste dump,
or burn tires without getting in trouble.

We have a constable that is elected every two years,
and a "Judge" and a "County Sheriff".

If we have a dispute or a problem, we contact the Constable, and he will either deal with it, or call the appropriate authority.
Every county is divided into Fire Districts, and has local Volunteer Fire Departments & Medical First Responders organized and trained by the County & State.
(My wife & I are both Firefighters, and she is the only Medical First Responder for our 60 square mile rural district.)

The County Assessor visits every property yearly.
If we build an addition to our house, we don't need a permit or code inspection, but will have to pay additional taxes
based on the square footage of the addition.
If we wanted to mortgage our house, we would have to have an inspection by the bank.
The bank won't make the loan if there is a problem with the house.


...so we DO have government out here, it just hasn't gotten too intrusive.
Mostly, we leave each other alone to do what they want on their own property.
While my wife & I embrace this independence, and take extreme care to keep our property and structures safe,
we readily acknowledge that this freedom can cause problems among those who are irresponsible,
or lack the skills to live this way.

[PATRICK]

52. The continuation of a misleading Snoped out headline in GD?

Is someone asleep at the switch here? Though it is fairly harmless it makes me wonder about other more serious sounding topics.

How did they get the horses that small anyway?

[nilram]

53. rec'd, then unrec'd. check out the snopes link:

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/horseshelter.asp

(with thanks to reply #10, above)

[bucolic_frolic]

56. This farmer is hired!!

Mr. Farmer, I want to know ....

how to get around

state vehicle inspections

car insurance

probate taxes

bundled cable tv (I PAY for Faux News????)

subsidizing pro sports salaries

talking head salaries

Citizens United

[noel711]

57. People... get real.

You'll are getting as bad as the FOX crowd...
sure it's fun to poke fun at what we THINK we see...

check it out at Snopes.com

http://www.snopes.com/photos/animals/horseshelter.asp