This is lamentable. Bo must have been a Republican.
Democrats first have themselves rolled up in a carpet,
then driven to an obscure corner of a park before they
blow their brains out. They don't want to be discovered.
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Posted on 10/05/2007 5:49:29 AM PDT by Red in Blue PA
CLARKSVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A business owner shot and killed himself during a City Council meeting Thursday night after members voted against his request to rezone his property, witnesses said.
Ronald "Bo" Ward, owner of Bo's Barber Shop, had told the council his business would go under if he couldn't get his home rezoned as commercial. After the 5-7 vote Thursday night, Ward stood and walked toward the council.
"Y'all have put me under. ... I'm out of here," he said before shooting himself in the head with a small handgun.
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Absolutely.
I will bet you $100 that no member of the Clarksville, TN City Council purchases his home.
Deal?
And as long as they're not generating undue noise, traffic, pollution, or otherwise harming me or my property values, neither I nor the zoning board care.
City commisioners they rejoiced at their ability to destroy lives.
City commisioners then rejoiced at their ability to destroy lives.
The most likely reason for them to turn down his request is that he had no plans of developing the property to commercial. With no solid plans by the owner, zoning boards are quite often prevented from changing the zoning designation.
This has been happening quite a lot here where I live. Properties surrounded by commercially zoned properties are denied commercial zoning because no commercial development has been planned for the property. Most are trying to get their properties rezoned so that they can sell to a developer at a higher price. But the zoning laws are designed to benefit the developer who will develop the property and not the land owners who seek a fair price for their property from developers.
Thank you for posting the picture.
Says who? Maybe he was under stress and not right but maybe he did it for a cause? Fighting government infringment on our rights.
I'm not a Christian so I see things differently - dying or sacrificing one's life for a belief or just cause is admirable.
It's a sad, desperate measure for sure. But I think there is also some honor and poetic justice to demonstrate to those who don't understand liberty that we all have a right to self determination.
I cannot believe you are getting hate mail over this. I agree 100% with your points. Whole lotta judgment goin on here. Regardless of the reasons, Bo’s gone, and the City council played a part. Probably a ton of other issues as well. How many others are going to lose their jobs at the barber shop? Did Bo have a wife and kids?
Well, let's be honest. He wanted his residential property (that he had no plans of developing) rezoned commercial so that he could get a bigger loan from the bank. In all likelihood, the board turned him down because he had no plans of using the property in a commercial capacity.
Sounds like he was playing a game to extract more money from the bank, and the board wouldn't play along. I'd hardly call that "ruining his life".
You don't own real estate. You lease it from the state.
Try not paying your property tax bill.
Among Christians and Jews, one can only be a martyr if someone else kills you for your confession of faith.
and I presume that you are a bigot. I do not believe in any of your eastern religions.
I'll say it again, far too many people get up on the religious high horses and proclaim what's permitted because of their religion but allow millions of innocent unborn to be slaughtered.
as for radical Muslims, at least they practice what they preach. I'll bet the waiting room at your nearest "abortions-R-us" aka Planned Parenthood are full of Christians and Jews exercising their Political rights...
Dude, we are all loosing to the creeping fascism and totalitarianism. Even with republicans in power in the fed and majority of the states, freedom erodes. This guy decided to cut his losses.
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Most citizens do not believe that the law should make special exemptions for the unpredictable behavior of crazy people.
...and no one said they should. I haven’t seen anything indicating Bo, was crazy, until he went the final step, and that may have been more related to the heat of the moment than crazy. We are missing the discussion and voting points used by the council and Bo’s points and therefor we have basically nothing to go on but pure conjecture.
“Hey Man, Nice Shot”.
Then why do you employ their concepts, like the notion of martyrdom?
I'll say it again, far too many people get up on the religious high horses and proclaim what's permitted because of their religion but allow millions of innocent unborn to be slaughtered.
I'm not sure what this has to do with your silly claim that this mentally-deranged man was a "martyr."
LOL! So your argument that it is OK to do evil as long as you preach evil - but if you preach good and do evil it's worse.
In other words - hypocrisy is worse than murder.
What a weird little guy you are.
I bet they will if a friend or associate of the counsel buys up the property at estate sale prices.
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