Fla. farmer posts sign warning potential home-lot buyers of animal 'noise, odors and outdoor sex'

Residents in a rural Florida town have found a unique — and colorfully descriptive — way to fight a proposed housing development in their neighborhood. In an attempt to deter the proposed 80-home project, Englewood resident Sue Young, one of 20 farm owners in the area, has posted a sign warning potential buyers of the myriad of sounds and smells farm animals make, including the fact that anyone living near a farm is bound to witness animals having sex, Josh Taylor reports for WWSB My Suncoast.

Young told Taylor, "We are hobby farms. People come to see our animals. We raise our own animals. They want to put 80 homes on what used to be an equestrian farm. We just don't want to be changed in the zoning. We are farms, and Englewood should have farms." Young said people have responded positively to the sign and no one has been offended by it.

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"She says it's meant to catch some eyeballs and meant as a warning," Taylor said. "They’re concerned that once those in a gated community move in, they'll work to get rid of the annoyances around them." Young told Taylor, "It's like moving next to an airport and complaining about the traffic patterns. If you move next to a farm, we have animals that make noises and they smell. A lot of people enjoy them but they are not meant for everybody." (Read more)