Booney wrote:Bandit wrote:Have a chat with the Coonalpyn locals - their servo is being removed all together to avoid competition. Will have to drive to Tinty for fuel
Yep, I know. The Peregrine group brought the Coonalpyn servo and promptly closed it. Poor form, not a good way to treat people on the land.
I was in the area on the weekend and spoke to a local farmer about this situation.
He said Coonalpyn locals only have themselves to blame for the closure - they were offered the chance to put together a community purchase of the servo and they didn't. They knew OTR were circling and 'let it happen'. "All they had to do was look around and see who's buying servos in SA and who was building just down the road from them to know what was going to happen".
It was interesting to hear this perception, albeit with a fair hint of neighbourly bias.
"Those Coonalpyn people are a strange lot," he said, later in the night.
You're my only friend, and you don't even like me.