Was the PI this guy?
Posted on 07/08/2015 10:06:27 AM PDT by rickmichaels
Actor Tom Selleck has been stealing truckloads of water from a hydrant for his 60-acre ranch and avocado farm in California, according to a lawsuit filed by a water district.
The Magnum P.I. star and his wife Jillie Mack are accused of dispatching a white truck to a neighboring valley at least 12 times since 2013 to retrieve gallons of precious water, which is in short supply during the historic drought.
To catch him, Calleguas Municipal Water District has spent $22,000 on a private investigator, the Sun Sentinel reported.
But even after they were issued with a cease-and-desist notice, the lawsuit claims, the Sellecks continued to swipe tankloads from Thousand Oaks to bring back to Hidden Valley in Westlake Village, where they have lived for 30 years.
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I know what your thinking...
Sorry, but 60 acres is not a ranch. That isn’t even a ranchette.
Was the PI this guy?
it is still a farm.
Farmers in California have few if any water restrictions.
Magnum busted by a P.I?
A ranchito?
What?...this can't be the whole story....
Maybe. This is less than a quarter section of land.
Hey guys, I think he can explain everything.
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.
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.
What?
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.
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. ;-)
Why would anybody live in that hell hole, Kalifornia?
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.
Down here on the Texas Gulf coast in an average year we need 6 acres per cow.
“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.
He’s doing it to dodge taxing...basically gentleman farming
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