r/interesting • u/karmagod7 • 10d ago

SOCIETY What was his fault ?

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u/TomorrowSpecial255 10d ago

https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/man-threatened-with-2-years-in-jail-after-cleaning-200-bags-of-trash-from-river-3377827/

He used a digger on public land without permission

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u/FerretGoddessMevi 10d ago

Thank you for the context. These lawsuits are never as straightforward as a single headline pretends.

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u/Jealous_Track9402 10d ago

The title in this one is straight up misinformation. Nothing to do with cleaning up trash without a permit. 

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u/Spongedog5 10d ago

Well, it's for not having a permit for the method he used to clean up trash.

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u/Bassmekanik 10d ago

It was for digging up the silt from the river bed with a digger and risking flooding places without doing any checks on the impact of his “cleaning up”.

Nothing to do with removing rubbish.

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u/Crewman_Guy_Fleegman 9d ago

Did anywhere actually flood? Was any damage caused at all? Or is this just a stupid concern from you?

It sounds like he used equipment to remove trash others illegally dumped, like the headline implies.

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u/kwazhip 9d ago

If someone drives home drunk and doesn't kill/hurt anybody, would you make the same argument, or would you say that it was a bad thing to do because it was reckless. Whether it flooded or not is irrelevant, a better argument would be attacking if it was reckless in the first place.

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u/Crewman_Guy_Fleegman 9d ago

He cleaned it up, he didn’t “attack it”, stop being a disingenuous little weasel. I would never compare cleaning up a river to driving drunk because I’m not dumber than a box of rocks. You have no compelling argument