When Stephan Laurent-Faesi returned home Sunday, he didn't understand why his hose was disconnected from the spigot. There's no telling how much water was stolen from his property.
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steve: so gary, the state of oregon said you are a water thief. right? isn t that terrible? boy. we ve had these problems for 37 years and they were designed and built for the purpose of water, fire protection and they ve been used for fire protection four, five different times, by three different agencies, and to protect homes, protect property. but yet now they want to drain them. gretchen: why? well, it s an overreach of the law. they re saying that the difficult fused water can t be collects and that s totally outside of the definition of the law itself. and any time there is a law that has overreach like this, it s up to the jury, actually, to decide the law and the fact. what s happened here is actually an action that s breaking his civil rights because the jury was disallowed from hearing this. the very fact that would stop