And Then There Were None — Trailers, That is

Dahlia Street is trailer-free as of Thursday afternoon, but what are we to make of this turn of events?

Perhaps the trailer fairies mentioned in a previous post returned and completed their task, removing the last eyesore trailer and leaving this street pristine for the first time in more than a year, save for the one derelict car that remains.

The urge is to indulge in a George W. Bush “Mission Accomplished” post. But that would be as premature as that previous example proved to be.

It is safe to presume that the trailer people even now are busily hatching their next attempt to irritate any and all who refuse them their divine right, that being to claim public property as their own.

But, for now, the absence of the trailers begs one overriding question: Where did they go?

The trailer spokespeople long had maintained there was no option. It had been insisted that these trailers, which multiplied over time (blessedly, not as quickly as rabbits or feral cats do), were plunked on the street because there was no other place to put them. This being offending and irritating to neighbors, which they were in spades, was but happy coincidence.

We recall some physics classes noting that matter is neither created, nor destroyed. So these trailers must be somewhere.

Could they now be employed to irritate law-biding citizens elsewhere? Let us hope not; or at least let us hope those aggrieved citizens have more proactive police and local representation than we in Southmont do.

More logical inquiries to the current state of Dahlia Street include will the trailers return in the future, like swallows to San Juan Capistrano, or buzzards to Hinckley, Ohio?

And what of the trailers’ ownership? Who exactly held title to said trailers and were they, as long had been claimed, all legally registered despite being from farflung locales such as California?

Just thinking out loud here, but it could be the true owners, facing fines and the like, tired of backing the petty protest and bowed to cost pressure. Think of it as a reverse of the old bromide about following the money.

There also is an element of a multi-front war, the sort of thing that has gotten others in overreach jeopardy throughout history.

‘Tis hard to concentrate on minding the trailers when there are social media jousts to be conducted and harassment to be dispensed elsewhere.

For now, it will need to be enough that the law and authority won yet again. But do not presume this will be the end of the quest to continue with the general offending of the populace.