Back in the late 1990s the man that owned the property next to my oil lease caught the EPA on my lease opening a valve and dumping salt water out of my separator on the ground.
He asked them what they were doing and they told him the valve was leaking salt water and they were just closing it.
He let the EPA know he had checked the separator just a couple of hours before and it wasn’t leaking.
The EPA started making threats of having him arrested.
He was a jailer so that made him a deputy sheriff.
He showed the EPA his badge and said he would be glad to introduce them to the sheriff.
He got their name for me and their license plate number then told them if he caught them out on my lease again touching my equipment he was going to arrest them.
Funny thing I never heard anything from the EPA about a leaking valve.
The EPA does crap like that all the time to justify their existence.
Good for him. I’d like to have seen the look on those turkeys faces when the deputy said he’d introduce them to the sheriff.
The EPA and their pompous bureaucrats are adept at intimidation until they come up against someone like your neighbor.
Should have just shot the bastards for trespassing. Buzzards got to eat too!
Feel-good story of the day. 8-)