Posted on 11/08/2025 2:01:50 PM PST by CFW
President Donald Trump pardoned Troy Lake on Friday.
The 65-year-old Wyoming diesel mechanic spent seven months in federal prison for tweaking and removing emissions systems on ailing engines. He was originally sentenced to one year and one day in prison, but was released early to home confinement with an ankle monitor in September.
He and his business Elite Diesel were also fined $52,000.
Though relieved to be free of the dismal prison in which he spent his 40th wedding anniversary and his 65th birthday, Lake said that he believed he’d spend the rest of his life as a convicted felon, unable to vote, hold public office, or possess or hunt with firearms.
Until Friday.
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The USF&G guy standing in the woods with a dead electronic emissions-monitoring chainsaw still gets paid by you and me, bosco.
Ditto, if his USF&G diesel truck doesn’t work correctly. He still gets paid by you and me.
That’s why the government doesn’t care if their BS regulations screw things up - they just reach into our wallets and grab what they need to get by their own regulations. We object - their gun up our nose time.
capiche?
-capiche?-
No, I don’t capiche.
I was just trying to figure why Troy Lake ended in prison for deleting diesel emissions systems while you can buy a DEF deleting system from hundreds of sites. These sites, apparently, are not getting in trouble with the law. Why is that?
Your reply is some rambling about chainsaws, so I don’t capiche.
It appears to be the rants of a mad-man.
He could have raped and murdered a dozen little girls and got less punishment.
May your chains sit lightly.
Anyone with a lick of sense with a diesel gets it deleted immediately. There is no benefit to ruining the motor and burning more diesel with toxic def emissions.
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