Pay For Water? That’s Ridiculous…
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Favorite Comment: Fixer dono1 says, “This sure is a new twist on stealing from the utility company.”
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Looks like its been photoshopped
EVERYTHING has been photoshopped. Reality is photoshopped.
You’re photoshopped! He’s photoshopped! This whole damned THREAD is photoshopped!
Love it!
This screams “FAKE” out loud, big time.
One of these things is not like the others.
One of these things just doesn’t belong.
Can you tell which thing is not like the others
Before the person goes to jail for what he did wrong?
Sesame Street FTW
lol
Looks shopped.
This kludge is a piece of street smart engineering! Will resist earthquakes and can accommodate a 18 inch-wide fault!
I like that he also took off the tap handle so that its not as easy for ‘the company’ to turn it off on him.
Ima go do the same with my electricity supply, ill just chuck a thick peice of fencing wire in where the meter normaly sits, then ill padlock the box shut so they can never change it! Ahahahahahar!
Oh yeah: The padlock will stop them. No way they have access to bolt cutters, cutting torches and heavy machinery.
Yes, just like the lack of a tap handle will stop the water company!
You may be a non believer, but while im enjoying free water & electricity, you will be cold & thirsty!
Ahahahahahar!
Just put up a sign that says “I am not stealing. Please move along. Nothing to see here.”
Sherrrrrrrrrrr, that’ll fix them! Not!!! You ever hear of that handy dandy option the utility companies have called “estimated billing?” That’s where they will use the absolute highest usage month within the past 2 years & charge you the same amount until you blow a gasket, send them a reading, which they refute for at least another month before they send a reader out, but you WILL be charged a big, fat amount, no matter what you do to foul up access to the meter, so your inane idea is chock full o’ FAIL.
obviously well below the frost line.
Lovely Rita meter maid
Nothing can come between us
Please don’t report this theft of utility!
Standing by the water meter
When I caught a glimpse of Rita,
Filing a report in her little white book.
The look on her face was never meaner
Than when she witnessed this misdomeanor,
Or, maybe in some states it’s a felony!
Lovely Rita meter maid
May I inquire discreetly,
Do you know the name of a real good attorney?
Win
Ahaha! Paul isn’t dead, but he has a terrible headache today he can’t explain…
I sang this… aloud… to my husband XD
Looks photoshopped
The irony is, this guy who risks prosecution, probably pays $1.79 for a plastic bottle of Aquafina.
There are too many things wrong with that photograph, the angle of the return curve on the white pipe, the white tap that isn’t connected to anything useful, and what is that yellow pipe, where does it go at this end?
I can explain:
The yellow pipe is connected with the white pipe, the white pipe’s connected with the white valve, the white valve is connected with the steel line, and that’s how the water lines are plumbed.
Don’t forget that the catbone is connected to the trombone.
Them pipes, them pipes, them dry pipes…
Agreed. The picture looks fake as all get out.
Here’s what I see:
Five water supply lines on the left side of the picture. The top two are pretty straight forward- in one end of the meter and out the other. The middle line is connected to a white plastic hose, which makes a loop and is then connected to the galvanized pipe fitting on the right. The next line (2nd from bottom) has the meter connected to the outgoing pipe via a short length of hose with a hose clamp on each end.
Finally, the bottom line has a tee at the top of the pipe that goes into the ground, which is connected to an ell, which is connected to a white plastic valve which feeds the thin yellow hose that trails across the cement, presumably to water the grass, wash the car, or something of that nature.
So, bottom two could be called kludges and middle could be called thievery… unless it was a temporary fix by the water company because the meter was broken.
The white hose is to confuse the electric company.
wh…ite
white?
Kl…
…udge.
Kludge!
We’re gonna turn it on
We’re gonna bring you the power
It’s coming down the lines
strong as it can be
through the courtesy…
of The Electric Company!
Thanks for that… I’ve been singing that song all afternoon. *sigh* Maybe I can move on now.
the water company’s getting hosed on this deal.
someone is going to get their neck locked in the jogs for this
I had a similar construction for about a month, placed their by my local water company when my meter froze. We had two weeks at -30C, and they ran out of meters as they started popping all over the place, so, they just put a pipe there instead.
This sure is a new twist on stealing from the utility company.
hahaha… i like this… i can’t believe it but i think it’s real
If he was real smart he would have done it to all of them. Then when he would get caught, he and the other five people would all say “It wasn’t me”
Why would somebody steal water?
Cuz when they want somethin’ man they don’t wanna pay for it!
then they walk right…..thru the door
i live in calgary, alberta, canada. we pay for all water use coming into our homes.
Just looks like a fixed rate service. Round these parts residential consumers with some of the local utilities pay a fixed rate, while a commercial customer pays by useage. Could be the service line for an apartment above a store.
Is that legal?
we just used a strong magned for metal – based meters untill they changed to plastic based ones. stops a meter and is untraceable.
the thread is exactly the same on the water meters here in australia, so you are able to turn the meter around, and the more water you use, the lower your bill gets.
Where I live water *is* free.
Sadly, the homeowner was killed a short time later trying to avoid paying for natural gas service.
There *ARE* a number of people killed each year by trying to do the same thing here with their electricity and/or natural gas.
“Honey? Did you pay the toothpaste bill? You did? Great, thanks. Love yuh.”
pay for water? that’s Reticlulous
Having to pay for anything that God created is ridiculous.
My water is free, I just pay for the electricty to pump it out of the ground and into the house. 1/2HP motor @ 240V, it’s not too much a month.