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Claybert Smoot was back before the supervisors at their April board meeting with his by-now annual complaints about excessive noise and trespassing arising from events held at the Washington Community Center and lack of response from local police.
“It’s the same problem I’ve had all the time. I can’t sleep in my own house. There are cars in my yard,” Smoot charged.
According to Smoot, noise from the Community Center on F odderstack Road continued until 2:30 a.m. on March 5. A car parked in his yard shone its headlights directly at his residence for 25 minutes, Smoot added. “We’ve had one act like this. By God, we’ll have another!” he told the supervisors, referring to the shooting last November of a Flint Hill farm manager. “You’re going to have to bring an undertaker,” Smoot warned the supervisors, adding that he “went out with a rifle with nine bullets in it.”
“I’m sure we have laws in this county to protect the peace,” Supervisor J. R. Latham responded, suggesting that Smoot seek a trespass warrent if a vehicle is parked illegally on his property.
The trouble makers at the Center’s activities are “all from out of the county, out of the state,” Smoot countered. “They just go wild...There’s nobody there to supervise them,” he said, claiming that Sheriff W. A. Buntin had visited the Center in response to Smoot’s complaint “just so he could say he’d been up there.”
“What power does the governing body have over
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