Mr. Nemechek’s Opus


Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.com
STOP YOUR LIES
NOBLE CO.
THE TRUTH

On a lonely stretch of John Wayne Road, about four miles outside of Perry, Oklahoma, David Nemechek has a bone to pick.

The Nemechek farm seems typical of the area, with one profound exception.

For the past forty years, Mr. Nemechek has used his freedom of speech in a most unusual way.

He has erected dozens of eye-catching signs protesting what he sees as a racial attack against his family of Czech descent “like done to the Jews – Czechs in WWII.”

Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.com
NOBLE CO. YOU MALICIOSLY PROSECUTED US /
YOU LIED, YOU STOLE OUR PROPERTIES /
_____ ____ LIGHTS, THE PARTY IS OVER /
YOUR FUN AND GAMES, OF HELL MUST STOP NOW /
CONFESS YOUR SINS, TOWARD US /
RELIGIOUS _____, ______, _____ A WITCH HUNT

These signs accuse Noble County, the entire county mind you, of “ethnical cleansing,” “law discrimination” and the killing of his cattle.

These fascinating proclamations are fashioned in a haphazard manner, with mismatched colors, lines and letters, reminiscent of ransom notes hastily pasted together from magazine clippings.
Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.com

Many painstakingly lay out dates and identifying numbers of the dead livestock, calling the perpetrators “bastards,” “evil inbred German religious terrorists” and “liars.”

WHY?

Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.com
WHY YOU DEVELOPED THIS KIND OF HATRED TOWARD US? /
WHY DOES CRIME PAY — IT DID HERE /
WE ARE THE VICTIMS / “WHY” IS THIS A RACISM HATRED AREA?

Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.com

WHY, YOU AND COM- MUNITY PROMOTING  YOUR NAMES AND DIRTYING OUR NAME, WHY?

Mr. Nemechek asks “WHY?” seemingly hundreds of times.

It seems that an attempt to answer at least one of the WHY?s was made at some point.

Mr. Nemechek must have been told that the cattle in question were infected with the Bovine Leukemia Virus (BLV), a common nemesis to ranchers in the United States, but he’d have none of that.

Evidently taking exception to this diagnosis, he insists that the cattle were killed by members of the community through one of his signs, shouting:

Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.comNOBLE CO. YOUR   STUPID MINDED RACIST HAVE / A RARE DISEASE B.L.V. IT STANDS FOR BULL S*** / SPREAD BY LIARS AND VICIOUS BASTARDS. THEY KIL- /
LED OUR CATTLE PURPOSELY – THEY CONVICTED US.

ETHNICAL CLEANSING
LAW DISCRIMINATION

The strange, yet eerily enthralling, display is not welcoming — as a matter of fact it’s a bit scary and off-putting.

We had to do a couple of drive-bys before we gathered the testicular fortitude needed to pull over and hurriedly snap photos of Mr. Nemechek’s manifesto.

Bopping up to his front door for an interview was most definitely out of the question.
Signs at the Nemechek Ranch in Perry, Oklahoma, Noble County. GypsyNester.com
IT’S RACISM
THEY GANGED UP ON US WRONGLY BLAMED US FOR ________
THIS  NEIGHBORHOOD WAS ________ FOR YEARS

Sadly, most of these unique works of art are fading away in the harsh Oklahoma sun.

Some of the signs are missing significant surface area, victims to the elements of the windswept prairie.

Perhaps their creator has just lost the fire in his belly.

We don’t know what really happened out there in Noble County, but we genuinely hope Mr. Nemechek has gathered some solace in his signs.

David & Veronica,
GypsyNester.com


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23 thoughts on “Mr. Nemechek’s Opus”

  1. The sad thing is David was murdered by his caregiver Pasty Steiller and her mentally slow husband who is the same age as her son.. she abused him and embellished him and forged his signature and changed his will and took all that land and oil rights . She laughs today about the cow bell’s she wired around his waste because he keep trying to run away from her and that way she could hear when he would try to get out of the house.

    1. You are more than welcome to contact me. I’m his only Son and thought the same way. She was up to something because I never was allowed to see the will.or allowed to be at the reading of it.

  2. It appears to be evidence of psychotic ideation. We see the same in certain signs of the homeless and I receive such rantings in letters claiming some kind of persecution; there tends to be rambling, lots of capitalized letters and exclamation marks and the lines are crowded together and there is often writing in the margins and on the back of the envelope as well.

  3. I had the opportunity to speak to Mr Nemecek today. He is still very much alive, at the age of 86. His story is much deeper than just the signs. His voicemail greeting is over 4 1/2 minutes long. It tells a lot more of the story, including the murder of his mother and the framing of his wife. You should have stopped. He will be more than happy to share his story!!!

  4. The other kind of amazing thing is that if you look at satellite images from Google Earth, the barns even have the word Confess written on the roofs.

  5. >Yikes! Can you say issues? That guy has lots to say and is making damn sure if not heard, at least read! 😉

  6. Wow! Mr. Nemechek must have had a lot of time on his hands to paint all those signs. He doesn't seem to be keeping them in pristine condition though. Perhaps he's passed on and his family left the signs up to keep the fire burning-sort of like hillbilly family feud in the Appalachians.

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