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Sep 2, 2025, 8:03 PM
   
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From: Gary Triplett <garytriplett5@gmail.com>
Date: Sun, Aug 31, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Subject: Dirty Municipalities>
I want to share the way municipalities  and townships operate and how much disregard they have for their constituents. This was my personal experience just recently. First off, I have lived in Bruce Mines and Plummer Additional for 71 years, I'm 77. I built 4 homes here myself, I employed local men and women in my business, I paid taxes here, never bothered anyone or caused any trouble plus I was never given any trouble- Until a couple weeks ago. Life here changed for the worse. I apologize for a long post, but I need to say my piece to anyone who cares to read it. Two weeks ago I was visited on a sunday yet by a new building official for Plummer Addtl township. He was very amiable and said he was here to make sure my build was safe, huh? I had taken or at least tried to take out a building permit before covid. Wendy at the township told me to forward the permit to the building inspector at that time because I didn't understand parts of it. I did and that was in august. never heard back from him for a year. The clerk was giving me a very hard time over a trailer I had on my property and wanted me to pay for a permit- thats another story. In the end I questioned them about why they wouldn't be more interested in helping me with my permit. two days later I get a call from the inspector, saying he tried to contact me but couldn't. Well, that was a lie, but ok, I still had issues over the permit unresolved. I might add that I come from a family of carpenters, brother, father, grandfather, I can build with confidence. Anyway Covid came along then and everything stopped. I was building a log home as I have in the past here. I had bought the logs, built my own mill and had half the logs machined, had my gravel pad all done, then I had no money when everything went crazy. I had always built my own trusses, stronger than engineered ones, but now they wanted the expensive crap. Well life was going downhill from that point. Divorce, job lost, and trying hard to survive on the old age pension and an old car ready for the scrap. Forward to that new inspector. I had made temporary housing for myself and wife and not to code, about 8 yrs ago. He told me more than once he was a good guy- okay, so-when he was leaving he told me he would  hold off as long as he could. His plan was for me to get out of my home and live - where, on the grass? in my car? Well thats bullshit! pure and simple. I don't have any money, can't build a house, and he was saying it was unsafe. I belong the the Ontario LandOwners association and they gave me a couple  No Trespassing signs specifically directed at gov employees as in the pic below. I showed him the sign and told him I would post it, which I did the next day. about 2 weeks go by and I came home to find he had trespassed the order and posted an unsafe building IMG_20250828_191059.jpg

 

If anyone is reading this, tell me how you would feel coming home to this disgusting threat. Well I lost it, I called him right away and blew my top at him in very coarse language, Told him If I had a gun, I'd shoot him and the useless councillors. I expected he would report it to the cops which the council did for him. I got a call from OPP asking me if I would turn myself in as they had grounds to charge me with threatening. No problem, I went down to thessalon patrol, they handcuffed me, took my belongings and locked me in a cell for 10 minutes, then I was allowed to give my own statement, finger printed, pic and signed papers and sent home. So now I am a criminal for stating how I felt when threatened to be forced out of my private home.
  Ok, so if you have read this far, thanks. I would like you to ponder this- your old, on a fixed pension, junk old car and no money, no place to go and the municipality tries forcing you out on the street, out of your private property and they think they have a right to trespass- they don't in fact.
  Do you not think they are responsible for committing unreasonable demands that add to the homeless we have? These so called councillors are supposed to be working on our behalf, but their heads get swollen far too big. I sat one term on that council myself and I know some of the crap that goes on. Well thats my long dirty story. I can't seem to get any help yet on this. All I want is to be left alone! IMG_20250831_170201.jpg
 
 

   
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