Rooting out the gays?Since opening Cactus Canyon Cactus Canyon is a pinball machine produced by Midway (under the Bally brand name). It is the WPC machine with the shortest production run (as the production for the new Pinball 2000 generation had to be started), thus making it a rare machine amongst collectors , a 720-acre clothing-optional campground for gay men near Springfield, Mo., in 1999, co-owners Charles "Chaz" Franzke and James Thideman thought they had seen it all. Their neighbors, they said, had thrown rocks and eggs at them, vandalized their signs, threatened them, and routinely fired gunshots at their property. But that all pales next to a neighbors new hog pen. "They located the pigs on a parcel of land right above our hot tubs," said Thideman. "So eventually the springwater that feeds our hot tubs will become polluted pol·lute tr.v. pol·lut·ed, pol·lut·ing, pol·lutes 1. To make unfit for or harmful to living things, especially by the addition of waste matter. See Synonyms at contaminate. 2. with waste, and we'll be unable to use them anymore." Thideman and Franzke filed a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. in March claiming five of their neighbors have conspired to drive them off their property. "They thought that if they irritated ir·ri·tate v. ir·ri·tat·ed, ir·ri·tat·ing, ir·ri·tates v.tr. 1. To rouse to impatience or anger; annoy: a loud bossy voice that irritates listeners. us enough, we would give up," said Thideman. "But absolutely not. This is what we want to do for the rest of our lives." |
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