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It's the same in the country

Anything that's of no further use either gets left where it is -- generations of dead cars, trucks, refrigerators in front, side, and backyards, or out the car window. I walk my dog about 50 yards along the road to the hayfield. The roadside is thick with discarded fast-food containers, motor oil containers, you name it. Around the hayfield are several generations of farm equipment parked around the edges. As the trees and shrubs inevitably encroach on the field, the scrap iron is consumed by the woods. A couple of ancient farm trucks in the barn will probably soon find their way into the woods too. Our neighbors cleaned up their backyard a couple of years ago. Brought in a friend with a bulldozer who simply shoved it -- dead sheds and god only knows what else -- into the woods behind . . . onto someone else's property!

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