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At Alleged Site of Slayings, Cows Show up to Keep Property Taxes Down
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by TheVancouverObserver | October 29, 2007 at 08:54 am
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by Linda Solomon for The Vancouver Observer
At a card club in Coquitlam, players were talking last week about the small herd of cows that had just showed up on the Pickton Pig Farm, the alleged scene of the worst serial killings in BC history. Just enough, the players speculated, to qualify the owners for the cheaper property taxes afforded by agriculturally zoned land. And the land is getting more valuable by the day. Who would cover the cost to the taxpayers of the BC government funding Pickton legal fees, players asked.
Would developers get the land, and if so, for how much? Would any of it go back to the taxpayers? What's wrong with this picture? they asked each other, and who was getting the best hand in this deal?
As for the cows, they said, "Moo!"
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at 09:18 on October 29th, 2007
TheVancouverObserver, thanks for posting this. Let us know if you find anything else about those cows...
at 09:59 on October 29th, 2007
TheVancouverObserver, the appearance of the mysterious cows is kinda spooky. The debate surrounding the use of the land is complicated by the $10 million mortgage the B.C. Crown placed on the property to pay for Pickton's defence.
at 11:00 on October 29th, 2007
Hey, Ryan!
Yes, I have a link to that story on the Vancouver Observer, but didn't quite get it up here. About the mortgage. So the land must be worth a good deal more than that now. As I understand it the mortgage was placed in 2005. Prices have risen, what? Twenty-thirty percent since then?
I thought this was just creepy enough for the week of Halloween.
at 17:10 on October 29th, 2007
TheVancouverObserver, Thanks for this. It's sort of spooky and sort of funny in a macabre way. It looks like the cows are the kind we use for milk. At least THEY won't get slaughtered there!