It wasn’t abandoned. It was behind his fence, in his yard, on his property, and mostly hidden from anyone unfortunate enough to be traveling down his “street”.
From the looks of things, his property was the nicest kept on his stretch of road.
I always find it incredible that there are so-called FReepers that believe that the government has the right to steal our property because they (FReepers) don’t think that we are using it correctly! That certainly doesn’t fit my definition of a conservative. DU might be a better home for them.