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LINCOLN VS MOREAU

Crash Moreau's
Junk Yard Art
survives the
2007 Winter Snows


The Steel Wall Stands tall in the Winter Snows. In 3 years the Wall has not moved  even with 50+mph wind gusts.




Town Of Lincoln, Maine

vs.

 Jim Moreau



A few years ago the State Legislature passed a law that prohibits anybody to have more than two unlicenced automobiles on their property unless they get a junk yard or repair shop / storage license at a cost and a lot of red tape and regulations.
 
 My feelings on this subject is that because of my business of using used vehicles in my stunt performances that everything on my property is usuable in my performances. This includes my unlicensed automobiles. Also I feel I am not a junk yard as I don't by and sell junk cars for a profit nor do I sell parts off these vehicles.  I only use them in my business of performing stunts. But the law has no exceptions for business like the profession that I am in, or other types of businesses that uses unlicensed vehicles on private property example of logging contractors or farm  vehicles.  Futher more the property that the town calls a junk yard is zoned for commercial business and I use it as my home base for storage of my props along with my legal residence.

To make matters worse the State Of Maine mandates you to have insurance on all vehicles before you reguister them. This means that to own more than 2 unlicenced vehicles you must pay an insurance company at least $200 plus dollars per vehicles than another $60 plus dollars to reguister these cars. Than the state can get their $25 per car and the towns can get their excise tax money. (A law to make a for-profit company extra money) is this the way Maine has to do things?


Two years ago I took 5 of my vehicles and made two full size replicas of my stunts on my property and to me this is an artisticlal expression to what I do for a living. If I needed, I could take them down and use them in a live performance as they are still usable for these stunts. But our Town Manager has told his code-enforcement people to clean up the town of automobile junk yards. There is no exceptions. So I have been informed that they will have to come down and be given away to a licensed junk dealer (if I am lucky maybe I will be given $20 for each vehicle that I own) so they can make a profit on them.

This is were I will stand up, to fight a law that makes certain companys bigger profits while a small time person can not even own there own business or personnal property with out someone else OK-ing if you can. In my case who pays for this? The taxpayers of  Lincoln who already pay high taxes, now the Town Manager wants to waste more money on a legal battle against a small time person who really can not pay for a high priced attorney to fight for his rights to own property he has bought over the years and still has value to his occupattion.

 "The American way of life you don't own anything."  as stated by the US Supreme Court that says you have to give your property to big business.


BELOW IS PICTURES OF MY SO CALLED JUNK YARD ART

                                                                 
 
This is a picture of my front yard that has a full size set up of my famous Torpedo Crash. This set up has been up for 2 years and now the new code enforcement officer has said I need to take it down as it is junk as all the fluids are still in the cars. As of two years later, there has not been one leak in these cars that can contaminate the ground around this monument.

But 50 Feet away at the railroad station, the ground is saturated with diesel fuel from parking the train engines for long period of times over the years. Than the road crew covers the oil with stones so no body can see the contmanation to the ground.  But this is all right for a big business with co-orp attorneys to fight the town on a level playing field.






 Another view of my full size Torpedo Crash, to me a monument of being the first American Stuntman to perform this wild car crash.











 This is an up close picture of The Torpedo Crash, you can see that it is keeped up with mulch around the bottom with flowers to make it look attractive.


















 From the main highway you can look down and see a Steel Wall Set up for another piece of art. I was the first American Stuntman to perform this stunt and feel that I should get some credit of what I have done so far in the business. The biggest problem that the code enforcement has when he came sneaking around my land. Is that he found a little transmission fluid on the ground which leaked out when we set the car up and he now figures that it is leaking all the time as it has been up for two years. He also feels that there is a safety issue as it may fall down, but I feel it is safe as it has hardley moved in the two years that it has been standing up. The only time that it could move is in the spring when the ground is soft. This car has been standing in wind speeds of over 50mph that has hit the area many times in the past 2 years and has not moved when everything else has blown around. So is it safe? He also told the local newspaper that it was supported with wood when there is also steel poles holding it up. The wood is their to make it authentic looking. By the way it does need a paint job and landscaping around the bottom.

PLEASE FEEL FREE TO E-MAIL ME ABOUT MY LEGAL CHALLENGE RATHER YOU ARE FOR ME OR AGAINST ME

crashmoreau@yahoo.com