ckreef Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 Yes it's a sad summer for Lane Packing just when they have one of the biggest peach harvest on record. In 1990 Lane Packing built a new peach packing facility which featured state of the art machinery to clean, sort, label, and allow for easy hand packing of peach boxes. This machinery included an upper cat walk so tourist could marvel at this process. This has become a tourist hot spot in GA with approximately 400,000 visitors last year. Now 29 years after opening the catwalk (just as peach season started) some government bureaucrat decided they didn't like that. Enacted a new regulation which forced Lane Packing to close down the catwalk. Just another example of Big Brother stepping in and screwing it for the little guy. I've been walking that catwalk once or twice a year for almost 20 years but not this year. Fortunately I have some pictures taken from the catwalk from a couple of years ago. Here are a few of those pictures. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrus Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 Big brother is watching, too bad, looked like a great way to spend some time 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ckreef Posted August 4, 2019 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 52 minutes ago, Tyrus said: Big brother is watching, too bad, looked like a great way to spend some time It is too bad. They're just peaches. You know that fruit they display out in the open at grocery stores where anybody with who knows what germs on their hands gets to fondle them before you come along and buy them. The agriculture industry in America is having a hard enough time these days with tariffs. We really don't need government bureaucracy throwing other curve balls like this. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MacKenzie Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 That's the pits. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyrus Posted August 4, 2019 Report Share Posted August 4, 2019 41 minutes ago, MacKenzie said: That's the pits. Sad circumstance but, funny when you put it that way 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony b Posted August 5, 2019 Report Share Posted August 5, 2019 Just some bureaucrat flexing their "muscles" to prove to themselves that they have a meaningful job and doing something important! Sad indeed! 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphonse Posted August 5, 2019 Report Share Posted August 5, 2019 A new rule requires additional personnel to be hired to enforce it. It is an economic stimulus action to create jobs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aussie Ora Posted August 12, 2019 Report Share Posted August 12, 2019 It sucks mate but with all the weirdos running around .who knows we had some idiot putting needles into our strawberries not long ago. It is too bad. They're just peaches. You know that fruit they display out in the open at grocery stores where anybody with who knows what germs on their hands gets to fondle them before you come along and buy them. The agriculture industry in America is having a hard enough time these days with tariffs. We really don't need government bureaucracy throwing other curve balls like this. Sent from my SM-T835 using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
