Farmer Builds Wall Of Poop Following Property Line Dispute With Neighbor

Updated September 8, 2021

Although I only spent the first five years of my life in the country, my grandparents' farm has been there all my life so I often find myself returning to my hold hometown to visit them.

And I will definitely say that my least favorite time of year to do that is in the summer. Not only is that when I can expect the surrounding pollen to wreak havoc on my allergies, but that's also when I can generally expect the air to fill with the smell of fertilizer.

But while that's an unpleasant experience I have to deal with some of the time, I can definitely count myself as lucky compared to the members of one Michigan farming community who must now consider it a fact of everyday life.

If you explore Lodi Township, Michigan enough, you'd likely come across a problem that Wayne Lambarth has to deal with every day.

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As he told Fox 2 Detroit, his grandfather established a farm there about 100 years ago and in the time since, that farm has been divided into separate properties.

That division has given Lambarth a neighbor and it seems that these men found themselves disagreeing on where the line dividing their properties actually lies.

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Although it's unclear when exactly this neighbor came into Lambarth's life, MLive reported that this property line dispute began to develop last year.

That dispute apparently became heated enough that Lambarth's neighbor decided to build a wall out of the cow manure that he'd normally spread along the fields.

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As Fox 2 Detroit reported, the wall is about 250 feet long, sits where the neighbor seems to believe the dividing line between their properties lies, and has remained in place ever since.

When asked about it, the farmer said, "It's not a poop wall. It's a compost fence."

And the smell has made everyday life miserable for both Lambarth and his tenants.

As one of them named Coyne Gozel told Fox 2 Detroit, "It's like you can't leave the window open. The whole upstairs will smell like it."

Unsurprisingly, this has led him and his housemate Jaidyn Schwarzel to lodge official complaints about the wall to local authorities.

However, officials told the outlet that they can't do anything about the wall because it sits on the farmer's property.

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And it doesn't seem like he's any more likely to remove it himself than he was a year ago.

After all, when a Fox 2 Detroit reporter told him his neighbors didn't like it, he replied with a barely audible statement about not liking the price of milk before going back to work.

And so the impasse continues.

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