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Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Small Town Deploys ‘Military-Style Maneuvers’ to Collect 75-Year-Old Man’s Debt

What do you do when a 75-year-old man owes you $86,000?

If you’re with the sheriff’s department in Marathon County, Wisconsin, you send in a SWAT team.

The tiny town of Stettin, Wisconsin, is home to fewer than 3,000 residents, and one of those residents, 75-year-old Roger Hoeppner, has been engaged in a lengthy legal battle with the town over how he uses his land, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported Saturday.

Hoeppner, a retired paper factory worker, runs a tractor- and pallet-repair business on the 20 acres of land he owns in Stettin, the Journal Sentinel reported, and for years the town has been trying to get him to clean up the parts and pallets strewn across his property.

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