Tom Selleck accused of stealing truckloads of hydrant water for his 60-acre Calif. ranch and farm

Daily Mail ^ | July 8, 2015 | Mia de Graff

[skeeter]

I know what your thinking...

[Army Air Corps]

Sorry, but 60 acres is not a ranch. That isn’t even a ranchette.

[Pollster1]

To catch him, Calleguas Municipal Water District has spent $22,000 on a private investigator

Was the PI this guy?

[longtermmemmory]

it is still a farm.

Farmers in California have few if any water restrictions.

[rdl6989]

Magnum busted by a P.I?

[Boogieman]

A ranchito?

[yoe]

"I know what [your] you're thinking..."

What?...this can't be the whole story....

[Army Air Corps]

Maybe. This is less than a quarter section of land.

[OttawaFreeper]

Hey guys, I think he can explain everything.

[Tupelo]

Once again it is proved beyond a doubt that, whisky is for drinking. Water is for fighting over.

By the way, 60 acres is a ranch, if you only have 6 acres. Or .6 of an acre. 60 Acres is a ranchette if you have several hundreds or several thousand acres. To me, it qualifies as a ranch.

[Ditter]

A dry western ranch would need 100 acres per cow so I don’t think he is raising many cattle on his 60 acre property.

[Osage Orange]

What?

[Vendome]

Pretty sure he didn’t dispatch anyone, with instructions to steal water.

His contractor likely did this, of their own volition and they should be held responsible.

[Army Air Corps]

The average in West Texas, before the recent rains, was about 40 acres per adult bovine. As you rightly noted, I don’t think that he is exactly breaking into Cattle Baron status. ;-)

[ryan71]

Why would anybody live in that hell hole, Kalifornia?

[AFreeBird]

A hidden valley in west lake does show up in iMaps. If it’s his, then horses and or orange groves, from what I can tell.

[Ditter]

Down here on the Texas Gulf coast in an average year we need 6 acres per cow.

[vette6387]

“Sorry, but 60 acres is not a ranch. That isn’t even a ranchette.”

Well maybe not, but 60 acres of Avocados is a very big deal. I worked for a guy who lived in the hills above Santa Barbara. When he moved there, he planted Avocados. In five years they were paying all his living expenses for a home, guest house and 25 acres. Plus he got to put the land in a ten year agricultural preserve which substantially lowered his property taxes.

[sunrise_sunset]

He’s doing it to dodge taxing...basically gentleman farming