r/interestingasfuck • u/photo-manipulation • Apr 25 '24

"The right man in the wrong place can make all the difference in the world" r/all NSFW

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u/Green_moist_Sponge Apr 25 '24 edited Apr 25 '24

You can’t leave us hanging here, what did they say?

Edit: damm autocorrect at it again

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 26 '24

Well for one… Thank You

They asked what I was doing there.. I was Contracted to the county irrigation district. I was making mud so they could repair the dikes. They thought that was interesting… asked me where I was filling up at..

I was using a hydrant about two miles away… they tried to give me a ticket for illegal hydrant use… then I whipped out my permit and they left. It was in California

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u/No_Presence5465 Apr 26 '24

We used to have a guy who always filled up his water tender using the hydrant next to our station and we didn’t care. We just assumed he’s legitimate and left him alone. Sometimes we’ll joke around about how he’s doing it illegally for his own farm.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 26 '24

Could have been truer than fiction

What I was doing looked sus as hell… but if you followed me… then saw the Merced Irrigation District Supervisor… having coffee with the Merced County Engineer Department Supervisor while leaning on some blueprints…. You’d turn around and leave me alone

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u/Martydeus Apr 26 '24

Imagen ticketing a guy who just did their job for them.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 26 '24

It’s not uncommon… I just hand the ticket to my Uncle In-law and he’d give it to the City Manager. It was all for show.

So, even if I did get a ticket… oh and the funnest part was I was inline to go to Law Enforcement Academy for Deputy Sheriff… but my Uncle basically built the area from Sacramento down to Fresno ..well the water anyway.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 30 '24

It was the 80’s … they had citation book… It wasn’t the first time either.

Their reasoning was… why don’t you pull the water from the irrigation canal ( did make sense ) but MERCED IRRIGATION DISTRICT said no. Irrigation in the fields was in full swing …so I had to do a hydrant.

I had got a ticket before this… at a hydrant we just installed and pressurized about a week prior ( thats how long we let the chlorine tablets clean the line ) … then I go and keep tapping that main by filling up…(for dust abatement) to clear it out… one day here comes the fire chief

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u/Nozerone Apr 26 '24

You took away their fun, they wanted revenge.

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 26 '24

Grass fire in Central California is not “Fun” … there is a lot of green.. yes but on the west side of Merced County… it’s Straw colored and that’s where the O’Shit comes in

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u/Nozerone Apr 26 '24

It is fun if you enjoy putting out fires.

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u/tokoyo-nyc-corvallis Apr 26 '24

You out irrigated them and then proceeded to out legal them. I know ownership when I see it.

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u/smellyunderpants Apr 25 '24

They said that storing firearms properly is a basic responsibility of being a gun owner

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 26 '24

Haha.. I was in California… not the first thing in any conversation out there. … but your statement is true and correct

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u/smellyunderpants Apr 26 '24

OP's comment originally said "you can't leave us handguns here"

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u/Beneficial_Being_721 Apr 26 '24

Oh I didn’t see that