The Return of Cork-Screwed's Old Trailer

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The return of "Cork-Screwed’s old trailer,"
last seen being hauled away on Saturday, May 21st, at 5:46 p.m.

Yes, indeed-ee,

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They came back, the old haunts, looking gray, looking gaunt,
With their hangers-on, tough red-necks all,
For Cork-Screwed’s old trailer, that neighborhood failure,
To set up for the next small town’s fall.

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But, like dogs returning to their vomit... like belching, bloating, gut-wrenching, diarrhea-producing indigestion from one of Rotund Red's TLC Catering truck burritos... the Wilderness Advantage travel trailer is back. Because the last reputed owner was the third-wheel Barefoot Dirty Girl, Cork-Screwed (aka, Cornelia Jane "Corky" Green), its return to storage on this property is another proof of Lyin' Lynda's sham property trade to evade consequences of her/their illegal occupations.

Despite Cork-Screwed's monstrosity being unlicensed for at least four-and-a-half years (2007 through May 21, 2011), someone managed to cough up enough bucks to finally make it road legal in June of this year. (Maybe Bubba bought it? Lotsa drug money floating around...)

Rather than being parked to showcase the BDG's extensive collection of leftover trailer trash inoperable vehicles littering the property, it is parked to hide a broken down vending truck and an inoperable Mobile Food Preparation Unit (MFPU, or, roach coach) from the at-last-defunct, illegal TLC Catering operations.

How is one supposed to make out the FOR SALE signs in the windows of the trashed trucks?

Here's how the boneyard looked last Easter '11 - vehicles are just rearranged.

More importantly, does this free dumping ground continued storage for live and dead vehicles mean that Cork-Screwed, Resectioned Red, and Lyin' Lynda are close enough to Manteca to continually make reappearances at their Sierra High (c) Marijuana Cooperative Farm at 810 Fishback Street?

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(Bubba must be so proud to be so used...)

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Oh, where were the boys
To use as my toys?
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If You Got It, Flaunt It! (aka: Show Us Your Junk!)

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Things started happenin' early this morning. About 08:15 hrs, an intensive conversation took place out on the driveway next door and, next thing you know, one of the unearthed rodent condominia treasures of accumulated debris inoperative vehicles appeared on the BDGs' newly-mowed front lawn.

Ta-Da!

Redneck
Trailer Trash
Yard Decor

at its finest!

That's likely the last mowing that particular patch of lawn will get for a long, long time. I wonder if there was a time limit put on this display of chutzpah?* The only thing missing from this historical relic - besides a few essential parts and a little TLC (or ALL of TLC!) - is the name "Louise" stenciled on the passenger door and... uh, can't see the driver door.

This is exciting. Code enforcement case #460464 (and its earlier case #455382) may actually be moving forward. Last Monday, September 13, I sent the following in:

Request type: Abandoned Vehicle
Description: Re: Request #455382, the two vehicles in question were pushed in front of a container/trailer. They are visible from the sidewalk without elevating any cameras - or eyeballs.

But... it's hard to tell if this movement was prompted or assisted by C.E. because Manteca city officials have thus far demonstrated total unwillingness, incompetence, or impotence in dealing with the BDGs and enforcing any of the city's so-called ordinances.

The on-display rust bucket is missing a For Sale sign. (Get several, Red or Green, one for the house and some for the half-dozen dogs. Remember, though, none for the marijuana! Yellow would get cranky crankier again.) My guess is the Barefoot Dirty Girls plan to tow this wreck behind one of the decrepit MFPU's (see catering trucks) up Interstate 5 to Gresham, Oregon, or thereabouts, loaded down with as much sentimental effluent** as can be managed - like the John Deere log splitter.

(Log splitter?!)

Yup! Who knew the BDGs' 1/2-acre Manteca property once had enough trees to justify a log splitter? (Funny picture: Mellow Yellow toking her way out of town riding a log splitter.) More likely, the compulsive klepto's have been collecting more junk again. The stuff just appears out of thin air!

{"Psst! Hey, amigo. The off-menu TLC Minnie Mouse Muffin Muncher comes with a garnish of MJ... and we split your logs, too."}

But the dogs cannabis and the unsold canines really oughta be in roadworthy vehicles. Just sayin'...

Vaya Con Los Perros***

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* chutzpa: (Yiddish) unbelievable gall; insolence; audacity

** effluent (n) sewage that has been treated in a septic tank or a sewage treatment plant

*** Go with (the) dogs

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Flea Market Under the Big Top

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Step right up! Step right up!

Have we got some great deals for you!

We, the apple-colored Barefoot Dirty Girls,

Red, Yellow and Green, are selling ourselves it all!

Come on down to 810 Fishback Street in Manteca, California!
Close out! We're selling it down to the bare lot!
(Gettin' the hell out of Manteca and movin' to Oregon!)

Just look for the For Sale signs on [almost] everything!

We've got vehicles galore!
Registered, unregistered,  shouldn't-be-legal, and inoperative!

Last-leg commercial equipment! Bally walk-in freezer (must take concrete pad too),
porch chest freezer, Kenmore upright freezer, Admiral refrigerator, Scotsman icemaker!

Tic-tac; Brick-a-brack; Give six dogs a bone!

Fixtures; Truck-sized cookware; Yard radio!

Junk items, all sorts; Really shitty stuff; Flotsam and Jetsam!

Experienced junk yard dogs; [Experienced?!] house dogs!

Klepto'd Amassed over years, sheltered forever!

We pass the stealings savings on to you!

Hurry, before it's all scrapped gone!

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(* Will trade for marijuana growing and processing apparatus *)

(Tokin' Takin' that to Oregon, too!)
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NsFH Avec Ou Sans Moteur (With or Without Motor)

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Exhumations Will Continue Until Rehabilitation Occurs

Lynda and Theresa must be the Father and Mother of all Packrats! (or is that Mother and Father?)

During the end-of-July demolition of the illegal mobile home and the illegal shanty shed attached to its backside, there emerged into the sunsine a previously unseen [and illegal] collection of inoperable inoperative vehicles (gotta use the same word as the city code so the code enforcement personnel don't get confused, even moreso than their usual confusion, paralysis, and impotence.)

These two "beauties" have been hidden from view for a very long time under accretions of flotsam and jetsam, deteriorating from deliberate disuse, serving as habitat for wasps, spiders, rodents (controlled only by feral felines) and as off-the-ground storage for junk of all stripes. Operability Operativity and roadworthiness are certainly missing, as are vehicle registrations and licensing.

Two titles within the Manteca Municipal Code (MMC) speak to the issue of harboring abandoned, wrecked, or inoperable  inoperative vehicles - a chapter regarding abandoned vehicles and a chapter on nuisances. (And where have we heard about nuisances before? You're so right! My NsFH... Neighbors From Hell...)

MMC 8.20 Abandoned Vehicles 

8.20.010 Definitions. For the purposes of this chapter, the following words and phrases shall have the meanings respectively ascribed to them by this section:

A. “Abandoned vehicle” means a vehicle which is not currently registered with the California Department of Motor Vehicles and appears by sight to have been left to the elements.

B. “Dismantled vehicle” means a vehicle from which any part has been removed which removal prevents its lawful operation upon any highway.
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D. “Inoperative vehicle” means a vehicle which cannot be lawfully operated upon any highway.
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J. “Wrecked vehicle” means a vehicle which, due to physical impairment or damage, cannot be lawfully operated upon any highway. (Ord. 786 § 1, 1988; Ord. 765 § 1(part), 1987: prior code § 12A-14)


8.20.020 Findings—Nuisance declared. In addition to and in accordance with the determination made and the authority granted by the state under Section 22660 of the Vehicle Code to remove abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof as public nuisances, the city council makes the following findings and declarations: The accumulation and storage of abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicles or parts thereof on private or public property not including highways is found to create a condition tending to reduce the value of private property, to promote blight and deterioration, to invite plundering, to create fire hazards, to constitute an attractive nuisance creating a hazard to the health and safety of minors, to create a harboring for rodents and insects and to be injurious to the health, safety and general welfare. Therefore, the presence of an abandoned, wrecked, dismantled or inoperative vehicle or parts thereof, on private or public property not including highways, except as expressly permitted in this chapter, is declared to constitute a public nuisance which may be abated as such in accordance with the provisions of the chapter. (Ord. 830 § 2, 1989: Ord. 765 § 1 (part), 1987: prior code § 12A-13)


8.20.030 Exemptions. This chapter shall not apply to:


A. A vehicle, or parts thereof, which is completely enclosed within a building in a lawful manner where it is not visible from the street or other public or private property.

MMC 17.53.020 Nuisances.

A. Unlawful Residential Property Nuisance. It is unlawful for any person owning, leasing, renting, occupying or having charge or possession of any residential property in the city to maintain or to allow to be maintained such property in such manner that any of the following conditions are found to exist thereon, except as may be allowed by any other provision of law, including provisions of city ordinances:
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9. Wrecked or inoperable vehicles, vehicle parts or other articles or personal property that are abandoned or left in a state of partial construction or repair;

Gee, I wonder what excuses the City of Manteca, Code Enforcement Department, will dream up this round of inoperable vehicle complaints to avoid taking action?

If Code Enforcement uses the balls brains God gave them and cite these owners, this situation - with these NsFH - will perfectly illustrate the need of the administrative hearing procedure the city recently adopted. The BDG NsFH, Yellow and Red, will ignore the citation. The city will have to fine the BDGs and take them through an administrative hearing - and probably all the way to court.

Welcome to my world, boys. (I'll be happy to consult, for a fee.)

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