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Man Gets $30k Water Bill on an Empty Lot That Doesn't Have a Meter

#watershedmanagement#cityworkers#certifiedmail#driveway#worthwater
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0:00 [Music] this is another story that's going to make Steve's butthole just go is that a oh it's an explode he's going to he's going to pop his top he's going to be pissed oh oh everyone's explode trust me this is going to be the one that sends you over the edge all right can't wait to see it so here we got a story it's in Atlanta killing it no way this is that's great it is I would destroy him but now we go to Atlanta I don't hate cardo so there's a guy he's uh trying to build a house he buys an empty lot in Atlanta where he plant to build it somehow even though the property itself does not have a water line connected to it or a meter he in 5 months he gets

0:50 charged $30,000 for water usage what the ████ he hasn't used any water they don't even use water they're not doing anything already yeah so he tries to dispute it he goes to uh the department actually sends an inspector to check it and then that inspector writes on the report meter not connected no leak found so he should be okay right but the department of watershed management who oversees that rejects that inspection why and they say well there's only three reasons that this water bill could be piling up and that's use of water loss of water or theft so he still has to pay for it cuz it's theft well here's what they say they suggest they're alluding that it's some how theft but if that was possible that would mean that for 5 months a thief would have to arrive every single weekend with a truck big enough to steal 10 swimming pools worth

1:40 of water come on every weekend cuz that's the only time he's not there otherwise they're over there working on the foundation blah blah blah but wow my butthole is still loose by the way so then neighbors of the lot say they've never seen anything like that happening you would have to have massive trucks and they would have to be there for a really long amount of time and somehow there'd have to be a line for them to siphon all that water fill it up right so they're like where is this bill even coming from so then what happens is after a year of appealing he finally goes above the department of watershed management and says hey this is happening to me I would like you to take a look at this he goes to their legal department and they do their own assessment and they return a a reply that says after inspection the leak was caused by the department of watershed management the adjusted cost is

2:32 $219 so they're saying you're right that was their mistake the watershed management ████ up yeah and you actually only owe 219 bucks not 30,000 tight but then he gets a call from watershed management who says they went to a sector above that legal team and they are not going to honor the result from the legal team what and he still has to pay the $30,000 who's above them the yeah well at that point you might as well Sue that point like where' he at exactly at that point you they were able to determine that the ruling can't be honored and he still owes $30,000 in water bill that never there was no water involved oh so just guy just ████ got dealt the wrong hand in life yeah who the hell is this guy that's coming after him like they're not flexible they just

3:24 can't be like yeah that doesn't make sense let me look into this too they're more like nope you owe it we need the 30 we need the 30 yeah they just keep countering every one of his like uh appeals and suggesting that it's they really are going with the idea that somebody really stole all that water I'm going to let you guys see 30 grand worth of water wed management and listen listen to them actually suggest also houses 150 bucks by surrounded by homes and they've never seen anyone steal water homes with like security cameras footage that doesn't used water from her next door neighbor to rinse tools and that would be the only only water that we would have needed one board member said there are only three options here use of water loss of water or because there's a period there when nobody is out there you know your workers are not out there

4:15 no yeah but do they know not know how to math that's a lot of water on the site you're not people are they ask a lot of questions they're blaming it on an ins scrupulous who was stealing 5 months worth of water once a week I ████ hate stupid people man oh man what's he doing with it what is he doing with it yeah what's it for holds about 10,000 gallons a million gallons would be that's what I'm saying is they don't ████ know how to do math this would be like someone sneaking onto this property every weekend and stealing 10 swimming pools worth of waters that's the thing they're going going with to make him pay the 30k even though multiple inspections have deemed that it

5:05 washed Management's fault a faulty meter so it's it's they're thinking the meter just saying it wrong but watershed management saying no that's what you owe is 30k yeah what do you do then you just got to sue the you just got to sue them yeah you don't pay with all the evidence that you gathered so then he is going to have to put it to court but he's like I don't have to do that nobody wants it no it's such cuz you might spend 30 GS going to court yeah he's building a house or if you don't or if you don't pay it might go to collections or whatever and then it ████ your credit score up and then now you're like whatever other Investments or rental homes you're working on you ████ get denied where is it's always a lose lose until you end up like eventually winning hopefully dude why are city workers the dumbest ████ on the in the University I just don't know why are they so ████ dumb city workers why are you so ████ dumb dumb let us know in the comments

5:55 I've heard from city workers saying that their co-workers are ████ dumb so I'm like why I have family members who are city workers and it's a very past the buck kind of attitude it's a very like I don't yeah maybe it's not dumb maybe it's more like I'm lazy it's I don't get paid enough to deal with this like you deal with it you want to know one of the stupidest things I have to go through in my mom's house so uh my mom she bought this house from mon Park maybe like 20 years ago and it's a two-bedroom and then she's trying to build another two bedrooms in the back the driveway is 8 ft wide but because of the modern day like SUV or whatever they want all driveways to now be 10 ft wide that's the new C so if you want to build a driveway if you want to build a new house it's it has to be wider so the plans that my mom made she's like well the house in the front is has a 8ft driveway to maximize space we'll just

6:46 match it in the back so the back part of the house will just be a nice little rectangle and the 8T wide driveway will continue yeah they said they this they uh denied those plans and they said no the back part of the house has to have a 10ft dri driveway because that's the new rule and I'm like but the front of the driveway is 8 ft if a car can't fit through here why the ████ would the driveway need to go like this in the back and there's no way of getting around it so if you go to my mom's ████ house it's a stupid ass shape the driveway is smaller in the front wider in the back why you know at 619 yeah it's like and then they're like well we're we're trying to get it where it's like if that part of the house if you're gonna um if that's a newer part of the house will make it 10 foot wide it's in hopes that one day someone is

7:36 going to demolish the yeah get the ████ out of here I'm like who the ████ going to demolish a like perfectly good house to build a 10ft wide driveway dude I was I was driving I was blasting ass through Irvine one time and I was going way too fast and I got pulled over and then you know the it's the citation you got to go to the ████ thing or else you just pay the fine I paid the the fine I sent the fine in and I did certified mail cuz I'm not a ████ Noob I said certified mail of course they never got my ████ fine and they're trying to double it on me Triple it on me and I'm like guys I I now have to drive to you I now have to show you that I sent you my the the fine check and I get up to the counter after waiting 45 minutes for this ████ and he's like he's like cool yeah you have

8:26 proof that you sent a letter here how do I know you didn't just pack a a male envelope with magic beans that's what he told me I'm like was it Steve Green on the other side too yeah steeve versus Steve I went through the trouble of mailing you this ████ certified mail paying all this ████ like a ████ fifth of the goddamn ticket I I spent un mailing this ████ to you guys and you really don't believe me you're just not going to believe me I still have to pay the triple and I did I had to pay the triple that day ████ godamn dude there's no recour there's no go you just want it to go away you don't want to keep on adding find so what are you going to do and it's a it's a model it's a model they love it they get off on it I heard there's something similar to that with passports I don't know if you ever heard this but apparently um not passports green cards oh I heard the um and it's because we experienced this

9:17 when smack got her green card um apparently there's something uh she looked it up online it it arrived it said it arrived we had a ring camera of the of the guy arriving with it but then it just wasn't at the door and we were like what the ████ so that means he like confirmed that it was there and just walked away with it the ████ mailman and then we were like no way that would happen there a green card how could our mail has never been stolen like that and then she looked it up and apparently it's like some kind of weird thing where the first time your green card gets sent out that someone purposely doesn't give it to you because you have to pay again to the uh issuer to get a second one or something what and it's really common that everyone gets their first one ████ Jack wow that's ████ crazy there's definitely like a black market of like

10:07 that's crazy you get a certain amount of money for a green card apparently maybe they know that that's what that is and then you know when when it comes your way like the first time it never makes it but it's crazy how everybody else on the receiving end don't know that until they know it yeah there's a large number of people that online wouldn't even benefit the delivery person right unless there's some there's a black market for it yeah unless C amount of money for it it's no different than like knowing that it's a PlayStation 5 Bo and you're like ████ it I know it's worth it I'll sell ████ for a grand weird cuz there's way it for it to be a coincidence there's way too many people online that are sharing the same exact story that their first time when it comes in itn't no it's when ps5s were first being mailed out that ████ was everywhere all these mail carriers were risking their jobs and ████ just to like jacket sell it for like 1,200 bucks yeah so strange but there's always these rackets and stuff

10:57 but that's why you love uh auth cities are the best I love government I love city government I love state government Can't Get Enough government Steve Green more government

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