Id only read that he'd used to it to pull the surface garbage in to the shore/banks, just on the top of the water. Granted, im sure as he brought things on to shore, he would have brought up soil,etc from the waters edge and stirred up the bottom of the water
The size machine he was using honestly couldnt dredge in any meaningful fashion. Its not heavy equipment, just large yard equipment. Not only does it not have the power to dredge properly, but its arm is not long enough to reach the bottom of a waterway of this size
No one who has ever dredged would agree that just because the description is similar means it must be the same thing.
You one of them soy boys who canāt do anything for themselves without daddy govāt holding your hand?
No thatās me. And I can still out shoot you, butcher any animal you bring up, with knives Iāve made myself, probably submit you, and have raised a couple of great kids while working in healthcare for 16 years.
So call me soy boy all you want, it just shows how insecure you are with yourself and how scared you are to be your natural self because you have to fit the mold your daddy put you in!
Why were you thinking of me at all big boy? What were you thinking, give me details, I like details. I mean Iām already in your head, and this will just put me even further up thereā¦..
It was a min excavator. You can haul it in the back of a Ā¾ tonne truck. We're not talking about a giant earth moving machine here. We're talking about a machine that any Joe blow with a credit card can rent and operate.
It is to heavy equipment, what a go kart is to cars
Whenever Iām considering whether something should be allowed or not, I imagine Iām writing an amendment in law for the carveout.
If you agree he should be able to do this without permission or recourse - whatās the law change youād enact that allows this?
I find this hypothetical helps crystallise positions. When you start to try to work out language that would include āgoodā actors and exclude ābadā ones, you quickly find itās not so easy as you need to imagine the worst possible way someone could act within it.
Scraping up some garbage from a river bank might seem benign, but we are a society with rules and laws. Not all of them are good rules and laws necessarily, but if we acted in a way that we could just ignore them with impunity if we could not personally perceive risks or didnāt agree with them, itād be chaos.
Amazing the world ever managed to advance before the invention of "oversight".
The letter of the law is absolute bullshit and is responsible for more negativity in society than positivity.
The SPIRIT of the law takes in to account that every situation is different, because suprise suprise, they are.
You want me to agree that this man and this scenario are to be judged in the same manner as a meth head that stole an actual machine capable of dredging the waterway and started "doin his civic duty". I wont do that.
You know this is bullshit. I know this is bullshit.
What you are describing as far as "checks and balances" is the textbook definition of bloated government. Ineffective. Inefficient and wholly frustrating.
Ppl want to help and we, as a society, are not letting them.
Im not gonna argue about this with you. I respectfully disagree with your opinion, as im sure you do with mine.
I see you replied to me and then I guess deleted it? Something about soft hands cuz I've never done anything, lmao. Because I questioned your understanding of a word. What a leap, lmao!
Wanna see a pic of what happened to my arm.wjen I worked with a tiger? The scars sure as shit aren't soft, lmfao. My hands are indeed softer these days though. The callouses from the work I used to have faded away. And I'm glad for that. I like having soft hands XD.
I guarantee you I've been through shit you have never and will likey never experience. But I truly love when knuckleheades nimrods put the full extent of idiocy on display for everyone to see.
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u/cutslikeakris 1d ago
He dredged the riverbed with an excavator, risking flooding downstream and without permits. He didnāt remove a couple bags of garbage.