Backyard Chickens allowed in Roswell, GA – Is Dunwoody Next?
A Roswell man won his chicken fight with the city Thursday. Roswell Municipal Court Judge Maurice H. Hilliard Jr. ruled that Andrew Wordes can keep his flock of chickens in the back yard of his Roswell home. City zoning officials cited Wordes in February for raising chickens in a residential area. Wordes said he ruffled the feathers of a former employee who turned him in to Roswell Animal Control. “And then she called the City of Roswell code enforcement reported that I had chickens that weren’t allowed in Roswell,” Wordes told Channel 2 Action News reporter Diana Davis. Wordes said he’s raised the chickens in the back yard of his home in his Roswell subdivision for about four years with no complaints from neighbors. “They leave egg cartons on my door with their name on them so if I have extra eggs, I put them in there and give them back to them,” said Wordes. He said he likes farm fresh eggs for health reasons. “Now those are good eggs,” he said. The Roswell city attorney argued the code doesn’t allow for poultry in residential areas. Wordes and the mayor of Roswell believe it does and Judge Hilliard agreed. “They are allowed. I’ve read the code, Mayor Wood has read the code, and we both came up with the same thing — that chickens are allowed in Roswell. Wordes said his chickens are not livestock, they’re his pets. He said they are not a public nuisance and they’re clean. “I have more dirt in my front yard from my neighbors who walk their dogs up and down the street …
25 Responses to Backyard Chickens allowed in Roswell, GA – Is Dunwoody Next?
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MayMr. Wordes Rest in Peace. He was an enemy of the government. The man just wanted live his life peacefully with his chickens. He was friendly and helpful to his neighbors. It is a tragedy.
trekkerperson
September 24, 2012 at 3:55 pm
Pause at 1:11; the text clearly indicates that poultry is exempted. Why then did this news program keep framing this as a difference of opinion vs. an abuse of power and municipal government land grab? Because the essence of drama is conflict with some puns thrown in for fun. Investigative reporting is dead and, in case you haven’t heard, so is Andrew Wordes. He blew up his house and himself after being harassed, jailed, looted and bankrupted.
tcorourke2007
September 24, 2012 at 4:18 pm
On a positive note, all the good ones die young! This guy has something artistic going on in his swagger. He has the same pazzass that colnel sanders had, but way different & unique! This guys life should have ended up much different! He should have been on them Food Network TV shows, showcasing his brand new restaurant for chickens, & southern food, that was the next big thing, like Colonol Sanders.
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 5:05 pm
And freemasons and shriners worship clonol sanders, all over the USA to this day! I’m just seeing it now, because I never knew this guy, or heard of him once in my entire life until he was dead. And that’s the mainstream zionist media conspiracy in action! There are 10,000 amazing artists out there in the underground, underworld, you people will NEVER HEAR of. Micheal Jackson told you there is a conspiracy, that’s a FACT!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 5:29 pm
Start teaching the kids the truth in grade schools. Tell them school is a waste of time, start your own business at age 9, & hustle for money, from age 9-18. College is only good if you want to be a doctor, or lawyer, that’s it! I thought they were teaching me sh$% jack, but they were teaching me jack Sh%%. I’ve been in college for 7 years, and all through the public school systems!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 6:22 pm
They TEACH NOTHING about how to survive in the real world! With their info, you’ll be home-less the day you graduate! They are living in a communist pipe dream of Sh$%
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 7:19 pm
If you fail to raise, take care of, & most of all PAY FOR your 1 kid, after that. Forced sterilization. Obamas giving welfare moms in the ghetto, free handouts at your expense, for having 4-10 kids in the ghetto, when they can’t afford 1! They work $8 an hour jobs, live in the 100 grand homes that used to belong to all white steel mill workers, & have SUVS, on an $8 an hour job, in Chicago! It’s been going on for 30 years! Long before Obama was in there!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 8:03 pm
1 LAW, FORCED STERILIZATION! I’LL GIVE YOU 1 kid. If you don’t raise it, or take care of it. No more kids! Forced Sterilization after your 1 kid! You didn’t raise your roup scoup kids, rothschilds, and rockerfellers, gave them the carrot of power, and money, & corrupted them. Rockerfeller was worth 200 million in 1800! That’s like 500 trillion today with inflation! You’re not raising your kids, they go there!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 8:36 pm
I’m also against all religions! We MUST wash this earth clean, of all religions! I’m against all filth! Jew-Christian-Muslim are my enemies! The third position is the way! “When the last LIE is rejected, all that remains will be strange and beautiful” – Art Abscons
The number 1 stocks of 2011, are MILK, MCDONALDS, ENERGY! See a problem here? You roup scoup, American washed out slaves! The Water is GOD!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 8:43 pm
All you roup scoups in America are guilty about sex, because you’re born into religious lies as well! They’ve got you owned, trained you slaves & noobs!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 9:02 pm
Hitler would have gassed Elegant Elliot Offen in 2 seconds. The zionist jews are behind making BS&M & torture porno! And you people will attack Joe Francis for exposing college girls breasts! OH WOW! BIG DEAL! SO CONTRVOERSIAL! Joe Francis is from Europe, & in Europe no one cares about sex! Americans are guilty about sex, because all you roup scoups were born into total LIES perpetrated by Wall Street, The Zionists, NWO, international bankers, corporations that are slaveowners! & more!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 9:43 pm
Hitler was against all marixsts. He put them in the concentration camps & that was the end of them! I agree! Marxists are my enemies! Period! All cops & journalists in the mainstream USA media are all marxists! And modern day neo-nazis also! Hitler would have gassed every last one of them, along with Obama, JFK, unions, and democrats as well! Hitler was the ultimate political revolutionary! There are NO POLITICAL solutions.
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 10:29 pm
Check out infowars.com, and Alex Jones. They say this is about some green zone that the United Nations, Rothschilds & Rockerfellers want installed in Georgia, the new world order, punks & bulllies, marxist nwo thugs & cops that won’t even let the press come into the city hall in rosewell georgia.
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 10:37 pm
That’s b.s. If you can’t take the heat get the $%%^ out of the kitchen. Who becomes a public servant, aka a politician, cop, journalist, & then wants to deny the public & journalists in a public building? That’s against the constitution, & 1st ammendment rights. Howard Stern can’t take the heat, & he’s worth 100’s of millions, he’s a sick coward in NYC, & he’s been walking on the path of public servant for 30 years!
shrdictatorship33
September 24, 2012 at 10:41 pm
wow he seemed like a really nice guy… this is so sad. what a nation.
kezdodik1
September 24, 2012 at 11:01 pm
man this boils my blood.im sure many of can relate to this good man.i mean cmon….smh this is our fault….we let these govts (local,state,and federal)get out of hand and we have nobody to blame but ourselves…rest easy good friend….you were a patriot…may god be with him….hang these bitches asap.
GNut1980
September 24, 2012 at 11:29 pm
R.I.P. Andrew. May your tormentors be punished!
WilliamAges
September 24, 2012 at 11:51 pm
He was FORCED out by corrupt city OFFICIALS,they forced his 80 yearold landlady,to whom he had paid 16 yrs of a 22yr deed that she should sell or lose her land.and so after being in jail for 99 days he was behind on his mortgage,all his stuff taken when they told everyone he was in jail, they poisoned his birds, and hope they sleep well at night knowing that GOD WILL HAVE A SAY IN THIS MATTER,for power,greed&money
they killed a man, just as if they lit the gas,see how far that green zone gets:(
newsmass
September 25, 2012 at 12:00 am
Why does the city council of roswell have no conscience?
waynebollman
September 25, 2012 at 12:13 am
We were warned we were even watching some of the terrorists that supposedly pulled it off. Dont be silly. What about building 7? What about the Pentagon? There wasnt even any plane wreckage at the Pentagon and no plane hit building 7!!!!! Wake up!!!
guido2114
September 25, 2012 at 12:17 am
TYRANTS!!!!
guido2114
September 25, 2012 at 1:12 am
In case you guys were wondering….Yesterday Mr. Wordes met a tragic end to his long fight. He was facing eviction because while he was thrown in jail for violating the property codes when his yard flooded, he wasn’t able to make his mortgage payments. Instead of allowing the city to take his house, he blew it and himself up. Check it out in the news.
shgregg86
September 25, 2012 at 1:58 am
If some guy is shooting heroin right now, 6 houses away, guess what I don’t know about it, & can’t police it. I don’t care. The CIA brought the drugs in to break up society, & they use the street gangs. Guess what if some guy 9 houses down from me was plotting in his mind, to kill his wife, for many years now, even before I was born, & it happens in 7.6 days from now, I don’t care.
shrdictatorship33
September 25, 2012 at 2:19 am
There is NOTHING I could have done to stop it. It’s none of my business. You can’t police the world, locally or globally. This mentality of “stop it in advance” is b.s. Mossad & Isreal knew about 9-11 months before, & did nothing to warn the USA. Blow Isreal off the map.
shrdictatorship33
September 25, 2012 at 2:41 am
Punks, so why even bother trying to police locally? Punks can’t police the world, so they become cowards, & they try and police locally, only with the goon squad.
shrdictatorship33
September 25, 2012 at 3:17 am