San Diego: 6 years in prison for washing your car; not picking up dog poop??

[rambone]

Newly drafted rules propose prison time and enormous fines for breaking water ordinances and animal waste regulations. There will even be a 24-hour snitch hotline to report if your neighbor sprinkled water on his driveway.


That dog may cost you $100,000 a day

California’s latest experiment in faith-based policymaking is being unleashed today on the San Diego public, as regional water-quality officials begin hearings on new regulations that seem crafted to turn most owners of a car, house or dog into criminals within a decade or so. We wish we were exaggerating.

Under the draft rules, ordinary homeowners may face six years in prison and fines of $100,000 a day if they are deemed serial offenders of such new crimes as allowing sprinklers to hit the pavement, washing a car in the driveway, or, conceivably, failing to pick up dog poop promptly from their own backyards, let alone the sidewalk.

Cities throughout San Diego, south Orange and southwest Riverside counties must enforce the law, and set up 24-hour hot lines for people to report violations by their neighbors.

The new regulations even apply to firefighters, who would be forced to somehow capture and scrub the water running down the street from fire hoses and burning buildings, although the bureaucrats promise wiggle room for “emergency situations.” We’re at a loss to imagine the fire that doesn’t present an emergency situation, but we’re sure California’s army of environmental lawyers will be glad to help cities figure that out in court.

 

[jbombelli]

Makes me glad I moved out of that ****hole a long time ago.

**** California.

 

[hornadylnl]

Makes me glad I moved out of that ****hole a long time ago.

**** California.

Don't live in Indy. They'll rat you out for water usage as well.

 

[rat-man]

It hasn't take me long to realize who my INGO buddies should be. Finding the same folks popping up who apparently follow the same sources I do.

Oh, and yeah you can't escape this. Everything fashionable does tend to start in NY or CA though.

 

[hooky]

I'm confused how this is painted as "faith based policy making"?

 

[cobber]

I'm confused how this is painted as "faith based policy making"?

Faith in Gaia?

 

[IndyDave1776]

I'm confused how this is painted as "faith based policy making"?

According to Romans chapter 1, verses 24 and 25, it is a faith-based initiative:

24 Therefore God also gave them up to uncleanness, in the lusts of their hearts, to dishonor their bodies among themselves, 25 who exchanged the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and served the creature rather than the Creator, who is blessed forever.

I am going to stop now before I get scolded for going religious, but this does support the notion that radical environmentalism is indeed a faith/religion based worldview. The scary thing is that most of these leftist loons adhere to their religion much more zealously than practitioners of most commonly recognized religions.

 

[firehawk1]

Nothing really new here. They tried some of the same kind of crap here back in the '90's. The environmentalist whack jobs wanted the city to tax everyone for every square inch, might have been square foot, of impermeable surface on your property. Driveways, sidewalks, roof, stepping stones, stoops/porches, etc... Supposedly to pay for upgrading the sewer system, yeah right. It was proposed by the "green space" crowd, and we found out about it when fighting the Rails to Trails land grab scheme going on here on Indy's westside.

 

[jbombelli]

Don't live in Indy. They'll rat you out for water usage as well.

I don't. But are we looking at 6 years in prison and $100K/day in fines in Indiana for "wasting" water?

 

[firehawk1]

As far as the dog doodie thing, seeing how I despise those worthless animals, if you can't clean up after it they could slit your *** and run your leg thru it for all I care....

 

[RockofStrength]

As far as the dog doodie thing, seeing how I despise those worthless animals, if you can't clean up after it they could slit your *** and run your leg thru it for all I care....

Purple where needed.

 

[hornadylnl]

I don't. But are we looking at 6 years in prison and $100K/day in fines in Indiana for "wasting" water?

Is a little bit of tyranny preferable to a lot?

 

[Loco179]

So they are telling the fire department to stop using water to fight fires? Take precious manpower in a emergency situation and get the water to retaining pools.

 

[IndyDave1776]

So they are telling the fire department to stop using water to fight fires? Take precious manpower in a emergency situation and get the water to retaining pools.

Come on! No one accused leftists of being particularly bright!

 

[jbombelli]

Is a little bit of tyranny preferable to a lot?

Well, I grabbed my rifle and ran outside this morning, but I was the only one out there with a rifle.

Are you saying it's go time?

Until it is, the only thing I can do is vote and regularly harangue people who want to use their vote to step on my neck.

What more do you want?

 

[lucky4034]

Makes me glad I moved out of that ****hole a long time ago.

**** California.

DITTO...

my fiance is from San Diego and wants to move back one day. I tell her she can go anytime she is ready... just don't count on me following

 

[hornadylnl]

Well, I grabbed my rifle and ran outside this morning, but I was the only one out there with a rifle.

Are you saying it's go time?

Until it is, the only thing I can do is vote and regularly harangue people who want to use their vote to step on my neck.

What more do you want?

We've got millions of people on the lookout for that spec of tyranny in the eyes of others while ignoring or denying that we have a log in our own. If everybody fixed themselves, there be no need to run out into the streets with our rifles.

 

[Baditude]

A decent sized earthquake that is long overdue according to the Discovery channel will solve the California problem for us.

 

[Ted]

A decent sized earthquake that is long overdue according to the Discovery channel will solve the California problem for us.

If only it would take the Northeast along with it too, then this country can get back to where in needs to be.

 

[poptab]

Think this violates the 8th amendment... /waiting for lawsuit