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aba [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 02:01:36 PM  
It isn't that they forgot to vote, it was that no one remembered to run for office.

 
kronicfeld [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 02:08:32 PM  
Chicks and ducks and geese better scurry
When I take you out in the surrey Surry

 
MacEnvy [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 02:33:09 PM  
Oh man, I wish I'd filled out the paperwork to get on the ballot. It would be awesome to be the duly elected mayor of a town 6 states away that I've never been to.

 
nobozo 2008-03-07 04:49:39 PM  
tbn0.google.com

Never say never... forgotten.

 
SnakeLee [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 05:04:53 PM  
Did anybody else read that as "Entire Vagina forgets to vote?"

 
Pair-o-Dice 2008-03-07 05:05:23 PM  
Cocaine is a helluva drug

 
Raging Thespian [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 05:06:14 PM  
SnakeLee: Did anybody else read that as "Entire Vagina forgets to vote?"

*raises hand*

 
yogurt-the-wise 2008-03-07 05:06:31 PM  
Farked link already.

 
Pair-o-Dice 2008-03-07 05:06:59 PM  
SnakeLee:
Did anybody else read that as "Entire Vagina forgets to vote?"

Not necessarily. But I have seen vaginas that deserved their own zip code.

 
Russ1642 2008-03-07 05:07:03 PM  
Subby didn't read the article.

 
eff ewe 2008-03-07 05:07:32 PM  
Maybe an all-black town? IIRC, in Virginia, they don't get to vote.

/yes, he went there

 
phlegmmo 2008-03-07 05:07:40 PM  
"It just escaped my attention," said Councilwoman Misti Furr.

rawr

 
xkillyourfacex 2008-03-07 05:07:51 PM  
An entire town unconcerned with politics? That's it, I'm moving.

 
Plate of Crazy 2008-03-07 05:09:27 PM  
Is it a town of transplanted Floridians?

 
Arkcon 2008-03-07 05:10:14 PM  

Sure, they aren't rezoning ordinances or new development projects. But someone's got to run this town, right?


Apparently not.

The water system doesn't work, they say. The new taxes are too high. Water bills are too high. Water quality's too low. Why haven't those potholes been fixed?

Uhh...cause no one drives there, like the article says? Are we even sure this is a town? Sounds smaller than Mayberry -- the set, not the town depicted.

 
John_From 2008-03-07 05:10:46 PM  
Giant douche or Turd sandwich. Who cares.

 
Hence the Name... 2008-03-07 05:11:14 PM  
Try using that excuse for paying a ticket or child support.

 
rioter 2008-03-07 05:11:58 PM  
Wonder if they still have the lottery.


+4 to whoever gets that...

or not...

 
ArcadianRefugee 2008-03-07 05:13:41 PM  
MacEnvy: Oh man, I wish I'd filled out the paperwork to get on the ballot. It would be awesome to be the duly elected mayor of a town 6 states away that I've never been to.

When I first moved to Virginia the town I lived near (I lived in the unincorporated county it was in) had a mayoral election in which no one ran. The winner had 53 write-in votes.

 
tzankoff [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 05:14:24 PM  
But they did remember Poland...right?

 
ertznay 2008-03-07 05:17:07 PM  
Farked

 
RenegadJew 2008-03-07 05:17:41 PM  
Roanoke Island?


/Yes, I know that's NC

 
TheNewJesus 2008-03-07 05:18:13 PM  
"A vote for me is a vote for urinating on your grocery store!"

 
Raging Thespian [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 05:18:58 PM  
Hence the Name...: Try using that excuse for paying a ticket or child support.

Or paying taxes after making a million dollars.

/Hopefully not obscure

 
guilt by association 2008-03-07 05:21:15 PM  
I used to live across the river from that shiathole, so I'm getting a kick out of these replies.

 
zeus87 2008-03-07 05:21:36 PM  
nothing is obscure on FARK.

 
grinhea 2008-03-07 05:22:09 PM  
rioter: Wonder if they still have the lottery

Are you volunteering for the stoning?

 
gorgor 2008-03-07 05:24:45 PM  
NASCAR was on.

 
jethus_crised 2008-03-07 05:26:03 PM  
tzankoff: But they did remember Poland...right?

what's a poland?

 
Manfred J. Hattan 2008-03-07 05:26:56 PM  
Entire Fox News webpage fails to render.

 
Chibi Shinigami 2008-03-07 05:28:14 PM  
Link is farked. Anyone got the article?

 
Merry Sunshine 2008-03-07 05:28:42 PM  
Farked. What's the name of the town? I'm curious...

 
Bill Frist 2008-03-07 05:31:06 PM  
Election Day Overlooked in Sleepy Virginia Town
Last Edited: Friday, 07 Mar 2008, 11:26 AM EST
Created: Friday, 07 Mar 2008, 11:26 AM EST

SURRY, Va. (AP) -- A husband went to the hospital. A wife passed away. Cancer struck. Grandchildren were born. The full-time job and the two young kids just got too overwhelming.

And so it came to be that in Dendron, no one remembered to run for Town Council or mayor this year.

"We forgot," said Ruth Sheffield, a current councilwoman in the tiny Surry County town of just under 300 souls. "We usually have a reminder and we didn't get that reminder. We should have known. It's our fault."

There was a time when this wouldn't have happened in Dendron. Once -- more than 70 years ago -- the Dendron Town Council dealt with weighty matters, made big decisions.

Dendron used to be a bustling place of thousands, built from the ground up by Surry Lumber Co. The company located there in the late 1800s to take advantage of the vast surrounding pine forests. The town's name -- Dendron -- comes from the Greek word for tree.

Back then, the council talked about issues involving the towering lumber mill, the railway that passed through, and the crime brought by the rough men who came along with railways and lumber.

"Murder every weekend," said William Richardson, president of the Dendron Historical Society. "That's how you know it's a boom town."

Then the lumber company folks left, less than 50 years after they showed up. They took all of it -- the railway, the men, the crime -- along with them.

Today, the Town Council's duties -- they meet once a month, in the town's tiny red municipal building -- involve sending letters to property owners who aren't maintaining their homes and dealing with citizen complaints about barking dogs.

On a recent afternoon, Dendron's main street was completely empty, except for the occasional car passing through every 20 minutes or so. An elderly woman broke the stillness by crossing the street. Most of the action took place at the town's only market, where people wandered in throughout the day to buy cigarettes.

These days, Dendron is a place where filing to run for re-election can slip the minds of its council members.

"It just escaped my attention," said Councilwoman Misti Furr. "I work full-time, I have two young kids, and I just missed it."

The council's part-time clerk usually lets the council members know when it's time to file again, Sheffield said. But she was just busy this year -- she also staffs the town post office. By the time she left panicked afternoon messages on the council members' answering machines the day of the filing deadline, it was too late.

Thus, as of 7 p.m. Tuesday, no one had turned in their paperwork to fill Dendron's six open council seats, or even the mayor's chair.

Longtime Mayor Ben Muncy, known for being so devoted to his little town that he would personally collect utility bills and fix water connections, is in the hospital with cancer. His wife passed away the day before the deadline.

The current council members plan to run write-in campaigns for their seats, Sheffield said. Shouldn't be too hard. After all, everyone in Dendron already knows who they are. And who's going to run against them?

"Anybody can run that wants to," Sheffield said. "But it's not like we have a whole lot of citizens."

At the local market, the owner jokes that he's going to run for mayor this year. His customers tap out their cigarettes, chat outside and occasionally discuss Dendron politics, if someone's willing to listen.

The water system doesn't work, they say. The new taxes are too high. Water bills are too high. Water quality's too low. Why haven't those potholes been fixed?

Sure, they aren't rezoning ordinances or new development projects. But someone's got to run this town, right?

 
mesq 2008-03-07 05:31:20 PM  
SnakeLee: Did anybody else read that as "Entire Vagina forgets to vote?"

I read it as "Enter Vagina town..."

 
VRaptor117 2008-03-07 05:32:51 PM  
This story is part of the reason why I tell anyone who asks where I live that it's Northern Virginia.

/No, I don't have a farm.
//No, I don't have cows or horses.

 
Socratease 2008-03-07 05:33:13 PM  
z.about.com

"We spaced on the date!"

 
RabidCanary 2008-03-07 05:33:55 PM  
www.peteranthonyholder.com
That day coincided with the annual Toilet Seat Toss Derby.

 
rioter 2008-03-07 05:34:42 PM  
mesq: SnakeLee: Did anybody else read that as "Entire Vagina forgets to vote?"

I read it as "Enter Vagina town..."



+1 on "Enter vagina town..."

Needless to say, i was horribly disappointed.

 
Iron Maiden 2008-03-07 05:36:11 PM  
this is worse than the time Martin beat Bart by 2 votes.

 
RyanLP 2008-03-07 05:42:55 PM  
Like the mayor conveniently forgot his term was up...right.

 
pennyrave 2008-03-07 05:49:20 PM  
Good job, VA.

Stay cool.

// asshats.

 
dhudd 2008-03-07 05:49:47 PM  
If you've every been to Surry, you would not be surprised by this at all. Festering hole of inbred tidewater bubbas. Now, up here Fredtown we have a brand new Kalahari water park that is generating enthusiasm galore.

 
semiotix 2008-03-07 05:55:57 PM  
I live in Dendron, so I'm really getting a kick out of these... OH MY GOD THE BABY

 
Hence the Name... 2008-03-07 06:09:15 PM  
the FOOD baby?

/Oh, you're not Britney

 
rickbauls 2008-03-07 06:15:42 PM  
"A husband went to the hospital. A wife passed away. Cancer struck. Grandchildren were born. The full-time job and the two young kids just got too overwhelming."

Classic Fox. So negative.

 
Manberg 2008-03-07 06:33:12 PM  
Misti Furr is a pretty decent porno name if you're into pubes?

 
testaclese [TotalFark] 2008-03-07 06:44:20 PM  
Sounds like a nice quiet place to live.

/Goodbye, City Life!

 
elemcee 2008-03-07 06:44:23 PM  
Think it had something to do with this (new window)?

 
RandomKeyStrike 2008-03-07 06:44:53 PM  
rioter: Wonder if they still have the lottery.


+4 to whoever gets that...

or not...


"it's not fair, I tell you!"

/doing this from memory
// saw that book at a bookstore the other day

 
xSauronx 2008-03-07 06:53:24 PM  
Raging Thespian: SnakeLee: Did anybody else read that as "Entire Vagina forgets to vote?"

*raises hand*


i lol'd...twice

 
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