Conflict over the SMV safety triangle, which has seen numerous Amish sent to jail in Kentucky, has ended. Governor Steve Beshear signed Senate Bill 75 into law yesterday. The new law allows reflective tape to be substituted for the Slow Moving Vehicle emblem. Amish reaction from the AP story: Atlee Miller, an Amish farmer from Franklin, [...]
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The Kentucky Amish SMV situation has seen quite a few developments this week. On Tuesday the KY House Transportation Committee passed Senate Bill 75 by a count of 25-1, sending it to the House for full consideration. This bill would allow reflective tape in lieu of the SMV triangle. If it passes the House, it [...]
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Whenever I hear people complain about US infrastructure problems, I shake my head. I always say that when you consider its vast scope and quality, the US driving experience has to be the best in the world, bar none. We take it for granted how good it is. As an example, main roads in Krakow, [...]
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If you’ve been following the Kentucky Amish SMV case, you know that some people still do. Jacob Gingerich of Graves County, Kentucky recently wrote 138 letters to KY legislators explaining the Swartzentruber Amish position on the safety triangle. Thanks in part to Gingerich’s efforts, a compromise bill acceptable to his people has quickly passed the [...]
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Kentucky Amish SMV problems continue. If you missed it, on Saturday, a Graves County teenage buggy driver was cited for failure to display the SMV triangle after his buggy was hit and dragged into a ditch. Five children were in the carriage, ages 7 to 15 (Amish children operate horse-drawn vehicles from a young age). [...]
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There’s another possible out for Swartzentruber Amish in Kentucky who refuse the SMV triangle–a change in state law. The Bowling Green Daily News reported Saturday that members of the Kentucky General Assembly were considering a change in regulations covering the SMV insignia. The trials of 5 Amishmen in Logan County, set for Friday, were accordingly [...]
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Thursday came and went, unsurprisingly, with no change in the stance of Graves County KY Amish over the SMV triangle. So another group of Amishmen were sent to jail yesterday (looks like 10 this time, though it’s a little unclear from reports), with sentences from 3 to 13 days. As with the Amishmen jailed [...]
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We’ve been following a number of high-profile stories involving Amish the past few weeks and months. There have recently been some updates I wanted to pass along to you: Ohio Amish shooting As of last week, officials were waiting for results of ballistics testing in the Ohio Amish shooting case. However they are confident the [...]
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The big story last week was the imprisonment of 8 Kentucky Amishmen for not displaying the Slow Moving Vehicle triangle on their buggies. Back in June we covered this issue with a lot of discussion on the implications of the case. It’s an issue of freedom and safety, similar in a sense to controversies over [...]
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Here’s a video of a singing taken in the Guthrie, Kentucky Amish community (thanks to Mike). From the video commentary, the occasion was a funeral visitation, for an Amish man hit while driving a tractor. Beautiful singing.
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