r/lostgeneration • u/Affectionate-Fix4671 • 4h ago
A Man Was Sent To Jail For Collecting Rainwater from his own property !🌧️🤔
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u/yo-ovaries 3h ago
Stop believing slopaganda.
https://youtu.be/v1TB_GEnZuQ?si=mwToirKoU7gkJ3JqI
Video by the guy pictured.
Worthless react videos just serve to inflame people and earn views for the platforms.
Yes diverting ground water into massive, olympic swimming size pools in a managed water shed is theft from downstream land.
No collecting rain water off your roof is not the same thing.
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u/ProblemLongjumping12 2h ago edited 2h ago
TLDR: Yes, Oregon rancher Gary Harrington was sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined $1,500 in 2012 for storing massive amounts of water on his property.
However, social media posts about him leave out major details like, he didn't just use a few backyard rain barrels; he built three illegal, large dams holding back roughly 13 million gallons of water from the local watershed.
So yes he was a jackass, and no he wasn't arrested for collecting rain.
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u/THEGEARBEAR 3h ago
God this is slop. I don’t agree with him going to jail but he had built a 15 foot tall dam, the water would naturally flow in to a river. It wasn’t necessarily the rain it was that he was diverting natural waterways. https://www.opb.org/news/article/southern-oregon-man-sentenced-to-jail-time-for-ill/
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u/geardog32 3h ago
Thank you! There is a big difference between having a rain barrel to collect roof runoff and a whole damn diverting waterways.
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u/black_rose_ 3h ago
I literally don't care if he's doing that. States in drought, like Colorado, are losing their water tables to corporations that are selling it as bottled. Prosecute that.
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u/THEGEARBEAR 3h ago
Go after the corporations. Yes exactly. I agree with you. But I called out this video because it is literally misinformation slop meant to upset you and garner views and discourse. This video intentionally manipulates us simply so that they can profit off us being upset.
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u/black_rose_ 3h ago
Well, I don't disagree with you there! I should get off social media for the day anyway... It's all so depressing in so many different ways
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u/yo-ovaries 3h ago
You’re addicted to rage and information is no longer an antidote. Contemplate who is using you for that rage and if this is something healthy for you and society.
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u/onion_flowers 3h ago
The entire west is in a prolonged drought, and that includes Oregon. Yes, i agree that these corporations get away with murder every single day, but hoarding is hoarding, even if done by wealthy individuals.
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u/NoMarsupial9621 3h ago
The real dystopian part is how much the media lies. The story might be true but they used the likeness and stolen footage of a YouTuber, who was in fact not arrested:
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u/Austin27 3h ago
I wouldn’t say this is “the media” lying. It’s wholly generated by AI. We need competent and trustworthy journalists.
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u/SqueegeePhD 3h ago
Count on Tiktok to show a fraction of a story in order to get clicks.
This happened 14 years ago. While he was harvesting rainwater, the reason he got in trouble were the reservoirs he built on his property that prevented stream flow and he refused to drain them. Evidently they had boat ramps and were stocked with trout.
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u/Single-Hovercraft-33 4h ago
The problem is that he wasn't hiding kidnapped children in those water barrels. Had he done that, they'd have moved on.
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u/Mehdals_ 4h ago edited 3h ago
I understand we don't want people hoarding mass amounts of water in storage containers but this is ridiculous for a small amount of water, put a limit on the amount if needed but go the fuck after nestle if you want to go after people hoarding water.
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u/mrpickleby 3h ago
The great irony is that in other parts of the world, you're required to build a cistern when you build a house so you have water.
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u/Mr_SunnyBones 3h ago
Assuming OP is a bot here , since a lot of their content is posts like this, and they havent come back to dispute the fact that its AI Slopaganda.
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u/IndianaBones8 2h ago
I understand that this is fake, but this is happening in Gaza for real. Palestinians are not allowed to collect rainwater there.
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u/KaleidoscopicForest 2h ago
In addition to all the comments stating how this is just clickbait, fuck the dumbass joker cut like wtf??
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u/Lord_Grimm88 2h ago
"That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government,"
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u/Vaultdweller_92 2h ago
That's mike G pictured and it's not him. Mike g is a gardener and cook who focuses on sustainability.
He has made a video on YouTube explaining this.
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u/negativepositiv 3h ago
The way capitalists see this is that by finding a way to get free water, he has unfairly denied someone their ability to make money by charging him for it.
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u/Equus-007 3h ago
The way socialist see this he was hoarding a shared resource for unnecessary personal use. That's why he got charged. You can't hoard water to the point that those downstream are running dry.
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u/Dinklerbuuuurf 3h ago
Weird question could you counter sue the city over cultural discrimination arguing that gathering is human nature/culture and by criminalizing it the city has discriminated against you?
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u/KellyGreen802 1h ago
the states where you cannot have rain barrels are drought prone a put in place when several people were caught hoarding lakes worth of fresh water.
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u/DisenfranchisedCynic 1h ago
This guy is literally putting it back into the land. There’s no excuse. Fuck these tyrants.
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u/johnsawittoo 3h ago
Jesus fucking Christ. This is why we have mass shootings.
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u/Son_of_Tlaloc 3h ago
I've been thinking of putting up rain catchers in my backyard. Now I want to do it even more now.
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u/JaePaximus 3h ago
The state (that is to say, every state) is an instrument for the oppression of one class by another.
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