• doingthestuff@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I got the same response when I was helping a neighbor who needed electric repairs and had to shut off all of his power for a week. A cop saw an extension cord running between our very close homes and at least he warned us to disconnect immediately and if they saw it again they’d shut off our power.

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      4 months ago

      there’s the Florida man who’s been repeatedly arrested for feeding the homeless …

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        4 months ago

        Oh man I work with a food pantry that serves a weekly free meal and we’ve been trying to get a commercial fire suppression system for many months now. The county and township have been making it as difficult and slow as possible. And really expensive.

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        4 months ago

        They put people from food not bombs on trial in Houston not long ago. The jury came back with a non guilty verdict because the law is fucking stupid and feeding hungry people is always good.

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          There was a similar case where they couldn’t even get to a trial because almost every single potential juror disqualified themselves immediately when they heard what the charges were by stating they would not uphold that law (the court only want people on the jury who will plausible apply the law “neutrally”)

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            4 months ago

            “I am pro every law. Please put me on this jury so I can do my duty. No, I have never heard of jury nullification. Fuck the homeless, am I right your honor?” - me desperately trying to get on this jury

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      4 months ago

      Why would they shut off your power? You’d be paying for the extra power being delivered to you, right? Why would they care what you did with it?

      And regardless, that’s a far cry from it being illegal.