An Oregon man, Gary Harrington, has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for of collecting rainwater – he surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his sentence.
This is how far gone our country is to a totalitarian state: a man can’t dig a big hole on his property and let rain fill it without going to jail.
Gary Harrington, the Oregon man convicted of collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his rural property surrendered Wednesday morning to begin serving his 30-day, jail sentence in Medford, Ore.
“I’m sacrificing my liberty so we can stand up as a country and stand for our liberty,” Harrington told a small crowd of people gathered outside of the Jackson County (Ore.) Jail.
Several people held signs that showed support for Harrington as he was taken inside the jail.
Harrington was found guilty two weeks ago of breaking a 1925 law for having, what state water managers called “three illegal reservoirs” on his property. He was convicted of nine misdemeanors, sentenced to 30 days in jail and fined over $1500 for collecting rainwater and snow runoff on his property.
The Oregon Water Resources Department, claims that Harrington has been violating the state’s water use law by diverting water from streams running into the Big Butte River.
But Harrington says he is not diverting the state’s water — merely collecting rainwater and snow melt that falls or flows on his own property.
Source: /cnsnews.com
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I can’t like this because it’s the most disgusting thing that I’ve ever heard of. More power to you Gary. What in the hell happened to the person that would even think about taking time to prosecute something like this, not to mention the cost. You stupid S.O.Bs.
because the government now thinks it owns the rain as well. and that if you catch it on your property it cant run down to other people.. yeah its a load of bull$#%&!@*, but what do you expect from the Tyranny that sits in washington.
I do believe that there are ALOT of OLDER people WHO need to be PUT in a HOME for there STUPIDNESS… If you think of this it would hold true… and or they ATE PAINT CHIPS AS A KID and the paint BACK tehn contained LEAD… this would explain ALOT…
When I was broke and could only afford rent I caught rain water and with a water hose ran water back into the house to flush toliets and wash dishes, just as bleach
No no no…not in America.
I’ll do as I please.
Rain water doesn’t belong to the Gov.
Obama and the Communist DemoRAT traitors must go
How do you figure it has anything to do w/the Dem. or the Pres.?? or are you just trying to start B.S.!?
Next we will have a meter attached to our nose and taxed for air
What kind of fricking idiots make laws like that—God supplied the rain water–the government had nothing to do with the rain, therefore they have no control of what falls from the sky.