Come listen to a story ’bout a man named Ted. A poor working man trying to keep his family fed. And then one day a local town started a feud. So Ted put up a sign that was the definition of rude.
If you’ve ever lived in a small town, or been a part of an HoA, you’ve probably become accustomed to people telling you what you can do with your own property. Yeah, you might have paid for it with your own hard earned money and you might be paying taxes on it, but try to build an oversized garage and the pencil pushers aren’t having it. Well, that’s exactly what happened to good ol’ Ted Pelkey of Westford, VT.
You see, Ted is an entrepreneur, a red-blooded American out there trying to carve out his niche in this world. He owns and runs a truck repair and monofilament recycling business. 10 years ago, he decided he’d like to move that business from nearby Swanton, to his own property. In order to do that he needed to build a much larger garage. An 8,000 sq.ft. garage to be exact. In Westford, VT., if you want to build such a structure on your own damn land, you have to put in an application. So Ted went through the process, dotted his I’s and crossed his T’s and put his John Hancock on the dotted line. Unfortunately, the people in power said the application didn’t meet their standards and Pelkey was refused. That refusal led to an uphill battle, man against the government, resulting in the pettiest, but possibly the most incredible payback ever.
Ted Pelkey
After his most recent application was refused, probably because some politician didn’t want to ruin the view off of his back porch, Ted got a brilliant idea. He had a whole new scheme for how to use the land he’d set aside for the garage. “I was sitting at a bar an said to my wife, ‘Hey, I want to get a statue made of a middle finger,'” he told Boston.com. And by god, that’s exactly what this magnificent bastard did.
Ted commissioned a massive, 4,000 lb. statue, mounted it on a 16 foot pole and lit that bad boy up with flood lights like a beacon in the night for assholes everywhere.
Ted Pelkey
When questioned, Pelkey is adamant that the monument to “go fuck yourself” isn’t directed at all residents of the town, just the Westford Selectboard, Development Review Board, and other town leaders who’ve denied and stalled his application process for the last 10 years. So, how can Ted erect a massive “universal sign for hello,” but not build a garage? Well, according to Jacqui DeMen, a spokeswoman for the Vermont Agency of Transportation, “The structure does not meet the statutory definition of ‘sign’ and thus can’t be regulated under the Vermont Billboard Law.” Instead of being regulated like a road-side billboard which Vermont bans, Pelkey’s finger of defiance falls under the category of “public art.” This realization, according to Ted, was the “most wonderful thing I’ve ever been told in my life.”
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Ted says the $4,000 statue has neither helped nor harmed his continued bid to build the garage. He does, however, hope the giant middle finger sheds some light on his situation, both literally and figuratively. He has an appeal hearing in January and hopes he can finally have the chance to wake up, drink some coffee, walk across his own lawn and go to work–the American dream.
I’ve got my fingers up in a showing of solidarity for good ol’ Ted!
(Shared, Boston.com)
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News Pictures Working man gives meddling town leaders a permanent one-finger salute (6 Photos)
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