Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Must visit: Redneck Stonehenge!


I could spend a whole week labeling posts "Say what?" There's just so much silliness to see in this wide world of ours. I almost did it again here, but decided to be more specific...

So, what am I doing this weekend? I'm heading to Hooper Utah (about 37 miles north of Salt Lake City) to check out the self-professed Redneck Stonehenge!

Rhett Davis said he used a backhoe and three old cars to construct the fence after neighbors who recently moved into their new homes next to his hayfield started complaining, the Ogden (Utah) Standard-Examiner reported Tuesday.

"The people who bought the homes say, 'Well, we love looking into your yard and seeing the horses and the cattle, but we don't like the flies, and we don't like the mosquitoes,' and when I cut my field to bale it, they say, 'We don't like the dust in the air,' " Davis said.

Davis said he has made peace with his neighbors and the fence was more of a joke than the product of spite.

"This is just a fun way for me to say, 'Hey boys, I'm still here,' so I started building a fence out of cars," he said. "This is my redneck Stonehenge."
Damn yuppies! But you know what? If Rhett is wordly enough to craft anything in effigy to Stonehenge then I'm sorry but he's no redneck! And, he's definitely my hero-du-jour!

And, no, the photo above is not from Redneck Stonehenge. It's from "Carhenge" near Alliance, Nebraska. I have to get there too!

That's what Redneck Stonehenge aspires to be!

Farmer constructs 'redneck Stonehenge' [UPI]
Getting to Hooper Utah [Google Maps]
Carhenge [Wikipedia]

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