Really. Leaf blowing? Nice job, Hitler.

Rochester man flies Nazi flag after dispute over leaf-blowing

by JOHN NOLAN
jnolan@fosters.com
Thursday, June 11, 2009

ROCHESTER — Any World War II veterans visiting Chestnut Hill Mobile Home Park should prepare themselves for a shock — a Nazi swastika is fluttering defiantly from a flagpole on Riley Street.

The homeowner, Erlon Johnson, has several poles in his front yard, and displays a Support Our Troops flag and a Stars and Stripes, on either side of the flag of the Third Reich that, to many Americans, still gives great offense.

Johnson, 75, says he was in the Korean conflict, asserts he is patriotic and that the Nazi flag is not intended as an insult to the armed forces, but rather, is intended to irk a neighbor with whom he had a leaf-blowing dispute two years ago.

"I sent off to North Carolina and got a lot of flags," Johnson told the Rochester Times last week. "If there was an Osama bin Laden flag I would fly that."

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Note: Rochester is NOT in Florida.

"If there was an Osama bin Laden flag I would fly that."

:rofl:

this guy is off his rocker, or meds... Take your pick.

A flag with OBL, flown next to a swastika flag. The mind reels.

I'd hate to be this guy's insurance carrier.

And despise supposed 'Nazi' flavored skinheads.

Should have said "white power skinheads". The lovely youths who sport "88" tattoos.

Those sophisticated types once broke my wrists with a 2.5 foot long axe handle. Fun bunch.

Can’t he just talk behind their backs like everybody else? The Nazi flag? That is something that could go beyond “irk” for some people. And the guy selling meat out of the back of his truck saluted the confederate flag? Crazy world we live in and Erlon Johnson isn’t helping any.