Living free from government dependency is harder now in Cape Coral, FL.
Robin Speronis, has been ordered to hook up to the city’s water supply because she’s ‘violating codes’. The ruling came from Special Magistrate Harold S. Eskin last Thursday.
“I know how to live off the grid completely and in a sanitary way,” Speronis said in response, “That’s what seven months living in the woods taught me. I do have an alternative toilet from my days of living in the woods.”
Land of the free? Of course not! The State wants you dependent.
Well, Memphis TN is the same way. The city has one Power, Gas and Water Company which is MLGW (Memphis Light Gas and Water) and if you stay anywhere within the city limits (or outskirts) you have to be connected to their services and they gouge their customers. Big Time. If you don’t hook up with them they will rule your home “unlivable” and the city will make you move.
The scandalous, click-bait headline doesn’t live up to the facts of the lede (the first sentence), and the click-bait lede doesn’t live up to the asserted facts that follow.
This is a great example of why I have so much work and trouble garnering interest in and support for so many stories and issues that truly are examples of malevolent or simply careless government over-reach. So many who are on “my side” are infamous for this kind of hyperbolic excess.
Misguided or factually challenged as it may be, this instance does NOT reveal a government body’s or agency’s refusal to permit “living off the grid.” It’s a story about a woman not being permitted to take up residence under terms she dictates in a specific, incorporated, previously defined zone of property which is inhabited under the condition of abiding by certain codes.
Of much greater concern to me are the comments just on this page – taking them at face value – and the people behind them. This story is not “scary,” no more than it calls for a response from a “lynch mob.” And as for meters being large to “accommodate Big Brother’s radar…” that makes about much sense as Donald Trump.
How funny – and after posting my comment I learn the comments here are moderated. Some of you worry about Big Brother and his radar infused utility meters, but comment editing and being required to provide an email list apparently ring no alarm bells. That’s just funny.
Have any of you ever heard of, The United States Gestapo? well you have now!
Connect to the city system and don’t use it. Don’t have to use anything but your off the grid hookup.
“were going BACK ! on the grid”
So, she wants to live in a city with neighbors, but doesn’t want to use the sewer. She has an “alternative toilet”? So a bucket….that she dumps in the back yard I assume. If you want to live in a CITY then you cant be shitting on your neighbors yard. Get real people, you’re a joke.
CAPE CORAL, FL –
Charges against a Cape Coral resident known for her “off the grid” lifestyle have been dropped.
A State Attorney’s Office spokesperson said they dropped their case against Robin Speronis because they felt they didn’t have enough evidence to move forward.
Chimptastic. Own da fail my homies.
That is not living off the grid.living off the grid is no tax paying job,no credit cards ,no DL,no real address .no bank account ,using fictitious names for everything.and 1 thing added to make it work is learning how to make a quick f**e drivers license at a moments notice that passes every test except will not scan