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From: shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com>
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Subject: Re: Pro-police: Illegal marijuana grow operation seized in Maine
Date: Sun, 21 Apr 2024 20:39:28 -0400
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On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 16:27:53 -0700, anim8rfsk <anim8rfsk@cox.net>
wrote:

>shawn <nanoflower@notforg.m.a.i.l.com> wrote:
>> On Sun, 21 Apr 2024 15:21:39 -0700, BTR1701 <atropos@mac.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> In article <v03s02$fsao$1@dont-email.me>,
>>> "Adam H. Kerman" <ahk@chinet.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> In Maine, in which those holding a state license may grow marijuana, an
>>>> unlicensed grow operation was busted.
>>>> 
>>>> Why were police suspicious?
>>>> 
>>>> 1) Cardboard-covered windows
>>>> 
>>>> Yeah, 'cuz no one who wants to maintain privacy is ever not doing
>>>> something illegal.
>>>> 
>>>> 2) High electricity consumption
>>>> 
>>>> Serves the perpretrators right for not going green with solar and
>>>> battery storge and staying entirely off grid.
>>>> 
>>>> Gotta love those smart meters. Now, I don't think there was privacy in
>>>> electrical consumption but those were monthly records. These meters
>>>> allow remote access and provide detailed real-time analysis of
>>>> electrical consumption. This helps burglars know when you aren't home
>>> 
>>> Well, burglars presumably don't have access to the Dept of Water and 
>>> Power's usage meters.
>>> 
>>>> and gives police all sorts of interesting information about your habits,
>>>> all of which are presumed to be crimes.
>>> 
>>> And you can't even choose not to be hooked up to their surveillance 
>>> system.
>>> 
>>> Government is increasingly cracking down on anyone who tries to live 
>>> independently and free of "the system".
>>> 
>>> Like the woman in Cape Coral, Florida, who was threatened with eviction 
>>> from her own home for daring to live "off the grid". She was generating 
>>> her own electricity and using a rainwater shower and said she had no 
>>> need for city utilities. The court ordered her to hook up to the grid or 
>>> be evicted.
>>> 
>>> http://www.naturalnews.com/044102_Orwellian_nightmare_off-the-grid_living
>>> _code_ordinances.html#
>> 
>> That is ridiculous. Though presumably she doesn't have to use the city
>> utilities since she has her own. Though she will still have to pay the
>> basic access costs even if she never uses any of the city's power or
>> water. If the sewer bill is based off of water usage that should drop
>> to near $0.
>> 
>
>There’s a minimum charge plus Usage. Even if you have your electricity
>turned off completely it still cost like 15 or $20 a month just to have the
>account.

Ah, but if you don't pay it then they cut off the electricity and
water you weren't intending to use any way. Win Win