A small victory for private property rights:
TAMPA — Love it or hate it, the Winnebago-sized installation known as the "Airstream Ranch" is legal, a three-judge panel has ruled.
This week's decision reverses a $100-per-day fine on Frank and Dorothy Bates, who put up the shiny row of silver RVs in 2007. Hillsborough County officials can appeal, but Bates plans to keep the trailers buried nose-first in view of drivers whizzing through Dover on Interstate 4.
Got that? This is along I-4! I don't know if it's art or not, but it certainly breaks up the monotony of driving to Orlando. The taxpayers of Hillsbourough must be pleased as punch that their money has been wasted on this lawsuit.
"The attraction has drawn tourists from as far away as Japan, was the backdrop for a fashion shoot and has been featured in a country music video. Two people asked about marrying there."
Prediction: In twenty or thirty years someone else will own the property and new busybodies will try to prevent them from taking it down because it's "historically significant".
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