Can you actually be punished for being off the GRID?

[Bob]

Suppose you worked hard to be self reliant. Then your city took action against you!!!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-10/off-the-grid-in-florida-robin-speronis-fights-municipal-code

In a new home off Del Prado Boulevard, which she bought from a friend, Speronis removed and sold the oven, refrigerator, and air conditioning units, even the ducts. The house was already off the electrical grid. An earlier resident had been stealing municipal power, and the city had cut the lines and removed the meters. Speronis subsisted primarily on a year’s supply of dried and canned food she’d bought while she had the RV. She drank and bathed in rainwater, filling a four-gallon, solar-heated camp shower. Her only connection to city services was the sewer: She flushed waste down the toilet, again with rainwater. “I can go weeks or a month without spending a penny,” she says.

Read the link. It gets a lot better

[momsapplepie]

Yes. It's called control.

[Ethereal]

They don't want people to figure out how easy and sustainable it is to live without the state monopolizing infrastructure.

[donttread]

Suppose you worked hard to be self reliant. Then your city took action against you!!!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-10/off-the-grid-in-florida-robin-speronis-fights-municipal-code

In a new home off Del Prado Boulevard, which she bought from a friend, Speronis removed and sold the oven, refrigerator, and air conditioning units, even the ducts. The house was already off the electrical grid. An earlier resident had been stealing municipal power, and the city had cut the lines and removed the meters. Speronis subsisted primarily on a year’s supply of dried and canned food she’d bought while she had the RV. She drank and bathed in rainwater, filling a four-gallon, solar-heated camp shower. Her only connection to city services was the sewer: She flushed waste down the toilet, again with rainwater. “I can go weeks or a month without spending a penny,” she says.

Read the link. It gets a lot better




Municipalites are even worse offenders of rights, especially property rights, than the feds are. And that ain't easy. Also, we are slowly killing individualism

[donttread]

They don't want people to figure out how easy and sustainable it is to live without the state monopolizing infrastructure.

Exactly, especially in an urban setting!

[iriemon]

Suppose you worked hard to be self reliant. Then your city took action against you!!!

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-07-10/off-the-grid-in-florida-robin-speronis-fights-municipal-code

In a new home off Del Prado Boulevard, which she bought from a friend, Speronis removed and sold the oven, refrigerator, and air conditioning units, even the ducts. The house was already off the electrical grid. An earlier resident had been stealing municipal power, and the city had cut the lines and removed the meters. Speronis subsisted primarily on a year’s supply of dried and canned food she’d bought while she had the RV. She drank and bathed in rainwater, filling a four-gallon, solar-heated camp shower. Her only connection to city services was the sewer: She flushed waste down the toilet, again with rainwater. “I can go weeks or a month without spending a penny,” she says.

Read the link. It gets a lot better




How was she able to participate in political forum boards? ; )

[donttread]

How was she able to participate in political forum boards? ; )

Didn't it say she had a laptop with a solar powered charger?

[Adelaide]

I see absolutely no cause to punish someone for this. Government/law enforcement out of control.

[sachem]

This woman apparently has some mental health issues. That being said, let her live as she wishes as long as she isn't a danger to others. Of course the problem is who makes that decision?