april wrote:
is it happening this year?
man the community welcomed the event
every one policed them selves there pretty good there are tagging this totalitarian position because some one died in a 4 wheeler accident.
he was not on the property where beer stock is held
his toxicology report showed no traces of alcohol or drugs and to further their position the state police said they had issued four or five d.u.i. that weekend which makes it like any other in the canaan valley area.
every body needs to vote this november at the local and state level.
i work at an establishment like many others in this community, who used that good shot in the arm of four thousand mudders decending upon us and spending their hard earned money here in our local businesses between tourist seasons.
a few extra officiers man butt!
we have over twenty here in town assisted by the national guard with road blocks (litterally 4 out of every 10 cars is an officer on the road this evening) our communities have lost over 40,000 dollars in revenues at the least this weekend.
it's matial law out here.
the only reason any of this is happening is due to out side influence.
you may find it hard to sell a 400,000 dollar home lot just out side of town with 4X4 mud bogs just down the road.
and with the govener taking a vested interest in the goings on of this areas local ecconomy there is no wonder such activities of extreme enforcement are taking place.
good luck to all yea beer stockers we'll miss you this year.
the kicker is while the cops are expending our tax money to cost our businesses and our citizens who rely on the income of those businesses that are spending up the taxes they have levied to pay a small militia all over people having fun.
it has been said that allegheny power is paying for all the meals that the troopers are eating whilst presenting them selves in over whelming force. if this true that is gratuitous and illeglal but nothing that would not be unexpected under the current govener or the federal administration.
if you beer stock lovers where serious you would organize yourselves as a group collection fees and use that money to purchase a single event insurance to the amount that would suffice the land owner and possibly use those funds to rent the property from the land owners for that weekend.