California City Sues Man for Canceling Trash Collection

Eddie House claims to have reduced his waste to nearly nothing out of concern for the environment. He now faces a lawsuit from San Carlos for canceling his garbage-collection service. The suit seeks a permanent injunction forcing House to maintain garbage service. City officials are also seeking to recoup from House the costs of the lawsuit. The city claims that House broke the municipal code requiring all residential, commercial and industrial properties to contract with Allied Waste for pickup at least once a week. House says he stopped his service with Allied Waste about a year ago: "It's just me and my dog, so I don't have a whole lot of garbage to begin with and I recycle everything," he said.

You're missing the point.

[DaedalusHKX]

These bastards (for they are nothing less) are suing him for choosing not to contract with a company whose business he does not desire or NEED, in what he MISTAKENLY ASSUMED was a FREE COUNTRY.

This is not a free country... and the socialists will probably have his ass hammered hard and long for having dared to exercise any form of free will.

Enjoy the Neue Amerika, a fine result of the schmucks who wanted "someone to do something about everything", and are now bitching that someone IS doing something about e

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[Jeremiah Cornelius]

He doesn't burn garbage. This is an unfounded accusation by neighbors. He burns regular wood - in a code-approved wood-stove and fireplace.

Paraphrasing Carl von Clausewitz

[smittyoneeach]

The legal system is just politics carried out by means other than war.
They really don't care about one dude and his dog.
They fear people actually thinking and deviating from high-profit behavior patterns.
Threaten a wallet only when you've plenty of ammo.