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Officials Use Google Earth To Find Unlicensed Pools
Officials in Riverhead, New York are using Google Earth to root out the owners of unlicensed pools. So far they've found 250 illegal pools and collected $75,000 in fines and fees. Of course not everyone thinks that a city should be spending time looking at aerial pictures of backyards. from the article: "Lillie Coney, associate director of the Electronic Privacy Information Center in Washington, DC, said Google Earth was promoted as an aid to curious travelers but has become a tool for cash-hungry local governments. 'The technology is going so far ahead of what people think is possible, and there is too little discussion about community norms,' she said."
They are doing it already in Argentina for years now...
New York is also a 3rd world country. Your point?
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
Was this one of those 3' diameter pools with 2" of water in them?
What were the items in the yard made from, that EVERYTHING was COMPLETELY destroyed? It must have been terrifying, with all the rocks in the back yard being shattered into sand! All the grass torn up and ground to a fine mulch. The garden hoses torn into 2" chunks.
I wish I could have watch the total destruction of this guys yard from one burst kiddy pool! Maybe a video of this occurrence will make thousands of dollars from one of those disaster TV programs! It might become as famous as the Hindenburg films!
Who would win this election: Andrew Weiner vs Andrew Weiner's weiner.
Because a pool, above or below ground, couldn't leak and cause damage to neighbors?
Personal ownership comes with personal responsibility, something many of the proponents of your 'crackpot' theories seem to try and weasel out of when the bills come home to roost.
People in cars cause accidents....accidents in cars cause people
He who would trade a little liberty to gain a little safety deserves neither, and loses both. Think about that, you statist toad.
One of the most abused quotes ever. Civilization is all about making compromises over freedoms. Your disdain for civilization leads me to believe that you haven't put much serious thought into that quote yourself.
I don't always use unix-like operating systems; but when I do, I prefer FreeBSD.
Wow. I can dig anywhere on my lots and all I'll find is dirt. Well, and eventually, water. And bugs and worms and stuff.
Presuming you have described this right and I have understood you correctly, your property is just random pipes, no right of way... your property is really screwed up. No one called the utility company and said "we're going to subdivide here, it's going to affect your right of way, what's the plan, how soon can you get a surveyor and a lawyer out here?"
Yet you bought the house anyway. So now you have to live with Mario's Nightmare, level 42.
Pardon me while I laugh at you. :o)
I've fallen off your lawn, and I can't get up.