Ohio man stalls long enough to get new outhouse

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BATAVIA, Ohio (AP) -- An ailing, retired farmer who refused to give up his outhouse after authorities declared it to be a public nuisance finally got a new one.

Elbert "Lew" Preston, 79, stood his ground long enough for a nonprofit group to come to his aid and build him a sturdy new outhouse with a waste tank underneath.

"There she is," Preston said as he showed off the new outbuilding. "She's a lifesaver


The wooden outhouse, complete with a crescent moon on its door, replaces a 1960s-built version that had run afoul of public health officials in Clermont County, east of Cincinnati. While the old one was over a hole in the ground, this one sits atop a concrete base and a 1,000-gallon tank.

"It's too nice and complicated to be an outhouse," Preston said. "I call it a privy."


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Another victory for the common man when you consider that he doesn't have to pay a sewage bill that the county commission wants to impose on everyone who gets city water in their quest to regulate entire counties to subsidize their city agendas.
 

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