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Night_Nurse Donating Member (500 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 02:53 AM
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McMansion builders are polluters - go figure.
Homebuilders fined for polluting Ga. waterways
Sweeping federal probe found violations at 71 of state's construction sites

By STACY SHELTON
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Published on: 06/12/08

Four of the nation's largest homebuilders agreed Wednesday to pay $4.3 million in fines for allegedly polluting streams and lakes with dirt from their construction sites carried in stormwater runoff.

Seventy-one of the sites were in Georgia. Muddy runoff is among the biggest threats to the state's rivers and lakes. It also harms wildlife and vegetation dependent on those waterways, including fish and river otters.

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bahrbearian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 03:34 AM
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1. Ya Gotta hit them were it hurts. Their wallets,
Edited on Thu Jun-12-08 03:52 AM by bahrbearian
Next they should make it 3 Strikes and your out. Jail Time.
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Zachstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 05:31 AM
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2. That is a horrible law.
I suppose you've never heard the pizza story.
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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:43 AM
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3. Does this story involve GD:P?
:shrug:
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Zachstar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Jun-12-08 08:52 AM
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4. No its the story of a man who had two strikes according to some law.
He walked out of a shop with a piece of pizza accidentally and the neocon shop owner had him charged. Because of the 3 strikes rule he got years in prison.

I read about it years ago but that is basically the story. 3 Strike laws SUCK! They are neocon tools.
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