“, an agency inspector was outside taking notes and photos as the smoke rose from the chimney.”
It’s little bureaucratic weasels like this piece of trash that kept the Stalin and Hitler murder machines going. Without the mindless bureaucrats to harass people, no totalitarian state can continue to function.
Nonsense. They already had 1 violation from this guy the year before, and it makes absolute sense to go back and see if he is still in violation this year. That’s what meaningful law enforcement is all about, otherwise we have anarchy.
The story also mentions that he was burning reject pallets. Pallets are usually made of hardwood, but by the time they get rejected for regular use, they are usually coated with all kinds of crud, which means that they stink like hell when some bright bulb like this guy burns them in his vintage home-made heating system. This guy is an anachronism from the description of his system, and probably isn’t the best example to use, but he is in direct violation of the existing law.
We still enforce the law in this Country which is still a good thing, and if we disagree with the Law, then we have means for changing them. Not every law enforcement action is by some kind of Nazi, and it diminishes this website when you sling that work around like you were at DU.
Try the decaf my friend...