The amish wagons your area

Gene

Keep in mind that you may get some new neighbors and until you meet them and live next to them a while, you won't know if they are good or bad.

Some Amish communities are bad all together because of the attitude of their leadership. Others are great neighbors with high standards of honesty and reason.

Just like "English" some will use every swindle and angle to abuse the law. We had a large group of Thai who moved in near us in Olympia WA. A church member of ours lived across the street from them. Anything left out in the yard ended up in their garage. If the car was left unlocked, it was rifled through. They all spoke very understandable English until the police showed up. When the neighbors complained to the health board about 14 people living in a three bedroom house, nothing was ever done. (You try that.) When the neighbor's barn and chicken shed "caught fire" and eye witnesses saw the kids set it, no charges were filed. Towards the end of that summer, police tracked down an infamous multiple gang member wanted for a mass murder of six restaurant workers in Tacoma. He was being harbored in that community.

Now these were Thai, not Amish. Not all Thai are bad but these were. Similar stories can be found regarding Russian, Mexican, Native American, Vietnamese... the list goes on. Even born and raised Americans do these things.

I try to treat each person as an individual and keep their heritage out of it. Sometimes a community attitude makes that difficult.

I have had a number of Mennonite students in my driver education classes. They were nice, polite, and very reserved. Their parents had cars, trucks - without radios, and they didn't have radio, tv in the home. Their tractors might be quite modern day, bur always on steel wheels. Farming practices were quite up-to-date. Men typically wore bibs and work shirts, women long dresses with starched gauze bonnets. Other than that, they were pretty modern folk. Again nice people.

Dave

They had to changed some of their dairy habits since they could no longer use springs for cooling
milk and had to install milk coolers if they wanted to ship milk. They now use a generator to
cool their milk and for their milkers. No electric in the house.

My wife advertised a pressure canner in the local paper and an Amish lady called and said she wanted
the canner if she could get someone to bring her down here. I told her we could deliver it so she gave the directions. They had a young boy with a team of three horses pulling a big rotary mower with a Wisconsin engine mowing off corn stalks.

She was making bread and insisted on giving her some. Here's a web site with music we grew up with. Hal

http://home.att.net/~hideaway_today/t054/hymns.htm

Glenn

Sir, only if you drive like an idiot- like the majority of people who complain about the Amish!!

I want everyone here posting to come on over for a drive at night or dusk or dawn. I think they will get an awakening ? or maybe even a BIG susprize in their grille !

Don't even get me started on the myth of being good builders.

Mike,

Can you provide an example of a law in which the Amish are exempt because of religion?

I'm not Mike, but a couple of examples of exemptions that Amish observe are:

1. They, as are anyone else who claims religious objection, are exempt from Social Security taxes, but they also can't claim Social Security benefits.

2. Their children are exempt from school truancy laws, thus allowing them to quit their formal education after eight years of school rather than the usual 16 years of age.

Others?

Tom in TN

They also have exemptions on septic system requirements when they build.

The smart ones know the dangers of running around on the roads without anything and they run reflective tape,SMV,and flashing lights mounted up high.