Whats rustling your jimmies?

On rural water, Neighbor is illegally pipe tapping or just clueless trailer trash that are oblivious to the swamp in their overgrown yard. But leaking to the tune of thousands of gallons. Called a few times to local water district and emailed. Notta. Meanwhile I've got a 200 foot 15 foot wide swath of grass with lightly streaming water. It's nice it filled up my dried out pond but is now cresting and slowly flooding part of my back acreage. Actually having to work for a change so have next to no time monday-friday to harass the department further until next week.

Not sure if it's ideal to make a scene or just call, being sole providers, I know they have bad google reviews from people making me concerned about attempted retaliation/making things difficult. If it wasn't for them apt to just call my land a wetland now, I'd almost want to pull big dick move and sick the EPA or something on them somehow.

Sludig said:

On rural water, Neighbor is illegally pipe tapping or just clueless trailer trash that are oblivious to the swamp in their overgrown yard. But leaking to the tune of thousands of gallons. Called a few times to local water district and emailed. Notta. Meanwhile I've got a 200 foot 15 foot wide swath of grass with lightly streaming water. It's nice it filled up my dried out pond but is now cresting and slowly flooding part of my back acreage. Actually having to work for a change so have next to no time monday-friday to harass the department further until next week.

Not sure if it's ideal to make a scene or just call, being sole providers, I know they have bad google reviews from people making me concerned about attempted retaliation/making things difficult. If it wasn't for them apt to just call my land a wetland now, I'd almost want to pull big dick move and sick the EPA or something on them somehow.

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Tell the utility district you think they are stealing water. A LOT of water. If they aren't a pile of half-asses, they'll send someone out to look right away.

Fucker said:

Tell the utility district you think they are stealing water. A LOT of water. If they aren't a pile of half-asses, they'll send someone out to look right away.

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They seemingly are because I already told them it was big. my fence guy knows someone that just got on the board he claims and he says they expect and factor for a40% water loss in their operations.....


guess it fits with everything else ran down to shit here. 1/3rd meth heads and inbreeding, 1/3rd noggers and fetal alcohol syndrome Indians. then of the remaining 3rd I feel like maybe half are functioning people.

Szeth said:

This shit is happening more and more. Our country club just sent out an email with a photo of masked kids on unmarked dirt bikes casing out parking lot. (Good thing I drive a Honda they're after the Porsches and Ferraris I imagine). It's insane that kids can be told to do something by an adult, and not get in trouble if they're caught because they're young. Also apparently CT state now only allows cops to follow for like 500 yards before letting suspects go. So they just ditch into a yard on their dirtbike or quad and get off scott free.

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They don’t target high end cars. They target generation 2 and newer Toyota Prius, also Mitsubishi Highlanders and Honda Odyssey’s have been popular as of late.

Big Phoenix said:

I really dont understand why society doesnt crucify degenerate fucks like those thieves.

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We can save them! They have a future!


........Six feet under.

have to take trash out at 7am through the wet grass now as we have neighborhood bears.

Sludig said:

On rural water, Neighbor is illegally pipe tapping or just clueless trailer trash that are oblivious to the swamp in their overgrown yard. But leaking to the tune of thousands of gallons. Called a few times to local water district and emailed. Notta. Meanwhile I've got a 200 foot 15 foot wide swath of grass with lightly streaming water. It's nice it filled up my dried out pond but is now cresting and slowly flooding part of my back acreage. Actually having to work for a change so have next to no time monday-friday to harass the department further until next week.

Not sure if it's ideal to make a scene or just call, being sole providers, I know they have bad google reviews from people making me concerned about attempted retaliation/making things difficult. If it wasn't for them apt to just call my land a wetland now, I'd almost want to pull big dick move and sick the EPA or something on them somehow.

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Are they stealing from you or from the city?

If they are stealing from you, you can call a plumber to come out and document it with pictures and a report. Then you can go to the water department, as long as the plumber is a licensed master, and use that as leverage to lower your bill.

They might even give you a refund.

Source: Apprentice plumber, seen it done for damagaes that are not a person's fault

Campbell1oo4 said:

Are they stealing from you or from the city?

If they are stealing from you, you can call a plumber to come out and document it with pictures and a report. Then you can go to the water department, as long as the plumber is a licensed master, and use that as leverage to lower your bill.

They might even give you a refund.

Source: Apprentice plumber, seen it done for damagaes that are not a person's fault

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I think they are from the rural water department possibly. no city

Sludig said:

I think they are from the rural water department possibly. no city

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are you or them near the end of the water line?

Goatface said:

are you or them near the end of the water line?

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don't think so, rural road the properties on either end. they're is a rural fore spigot in the area of the leak, but not spigot directly so doubt that makes it the fire departments issue

Seananigans said:

Seems like that would have to be a shitload of theft to break even with a master plumber’s rates.

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We did work at a guy's apartment and the leak was on the rental property.

The cuty was charging him $1000 a month for water that was technically his line but a tree on the rental property had busted the root.

Took us three days to cut the roots, dig down to find the pipe and repair the damage.

And then it turned out there were two leaks and the second was further down. So we spent another two days there doing it all over again.

"Would you like to round that up to donate to charity X?"

no, fucking definitely not. Fuck push charities. I don't care what the cause is. If you're gonna try to trick me into donating via ""rounding up"" then in principle the answer is no. It could be "would you like to donate 2 cents to save this puppy's life" and the answer would still be fuck no and fuck you for asking in this context. I am here to buy a burger, you fuckstick, not peruse the charity options.

Because number one, what the fuck is rounding up? I'm paying with a card, obviously, not counting out wampum by hand. It makes no difference if the bill is a round dollar figure because no physical currency is being exchanged.

And number two, fuck you for trying to use social and psychological manipulation to literally take money out of my account.

And number three, fuck you because I strongly suspect the company is claiming those "donations" as donations by THE COMPANY for tax purposes. The whole thing is a blatant tax scam.

But finally, in the case that prompted me to actually write about this: the bill came to an even round dollar figure in the first place. How the actual fuck am I gonna round up? What, round up to the nearest 20?

Fuck push charities.

The absolutely retarded unthought out nanny state codification of Smoke Alarms. Our house has a Smoke Detector in every room, overkill but whatever. They’re all hooked up to electricity, but have a back up battery that supposedly lasts 10 years, fine. The battery is not removable, or replaceable, not fine. We’ve had two of these fail within the first year, not fine, because *surprise* made in China. Last time the only way I could deactivate one successfully is via a hammer, which was admittedly therapy in its own right. None of these by themselves are a big deal, the big deal is when one of their batteries start to fail, even though they’re still hooked to the electric they sound the fire alarm, which is not fine because a failing battery is not an indication of a fire, but no, the issue is when one goes off, is every single one in the house goes off with it simultaneously, and good luck figuring out which one is going bad in a house full of them screeching at the highest pitch, while your 5 month old, and mommy who gets barely any sleep to begin with are, at 3 in the fucking morning on a weekend when we can all actually sleep in for a change

Fucking smoke alarms deserve a rant thread of their own. That sound. When I hear that sound I am compelled to eliminate it as quickly as possible. Shit will probably get broken, people will probably get upset, but I have to eliminate that sound NOW.

Afterwards its always like wow, I really lost it for a minute there huh? But there is no stopping it. If another smoke alarm went off right during that moment of enlightenment I'd immediately start breaking shit in my haste to shut it off.

that fucking sound.