I live in southeast Missouri...and it is the same in all of the rural parts of the area.  It is just what they do when you  live out of the city limits.

I guess many people who live in cities and pay city taxes have not known about this until it hits the major news stations...but its been like that here for years.  My house burned in 1990.

 

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