Horses and hand tools, REALLY?

[ThrottleJockey]

Feds Won’t Let Tombstone Arizona Repair Water System Unless They Use Horses and Hand Tools | The Lonely Conservative
I'll let the article tell the story, you can't make this stuff up.
Feds Won’t Let Tombstone Arizona Repair Water System Unless They Use Horses and Hand Tools | The Lonely Conservative

 

[ThrottleJockey]

Can’t a man get a drink in this town?

Federal Government’s Overreach Could Destroy Tombstone, AZ – We All Have Skin in This Game Because This Could Happen to Your Town Too | Are We Aware Yet? Political News Blog-Current News Political News Blog

 

[88GT]

Tombstone sounds like as good a place as any to commence a national nullification party.

 

[dom1104]

I thought this was a SHTF thread about stocking up on shovels and saddles.

Dissapointment.

 

[Blackhawk2001]

I thought this was a SHTF thread about stocking up on shovels and saddles.

Dissapointment.

Well the SHTF for Tombstone, anyway, for sure and for certain.

 

[eldirector]

A) Why doesn't the town/state just go in and do the work. What is the Forest Service going to do, send in the military? Heck, I'd send the Forest Service a bill*, since it is THEIR land the has damaged to water works. They should have erosion control in place where it could damage public utilities.

B) Don't most utilities have a right-of-way for maintenance?

The Forest Service annoys me to no end. Bunch of land-grabbers.

* Yeah, it is all taxpayer's money in the end. I get that.

 

[45fan]

It is crap that the letter was ever written in the first place. Sounds a bit like a human rights violation in the works, depriving US citizens of water in the name of saving publicly owned land.
Im sure that the Army Corps of Engineers wouldnt be using horses and hand tools if they were working on the project.

 

[J_Wales]

Tombstone sounds like as good a place as any to commence a national nullification party.

We are long past due

 

[Fletch]

"That's what governments are for... to get in a man's way."
-- Malcolm Reynolds

 

[ATOMonkey]

Shoot, I wouldn't even need horses.

Block and tackle and a metric truck load and cable, and I'd get those boulders out of there.

 

[jeremy]

Shoot, I wouldn't even need horses.

Block and tackle and a metric truck load and cable, and I'd get those boulders out of there.

How about just hiking in and using thoughtfully placed explosive charges...

 

[hornadylnl]

How about just hiking in and using thoughtfully placed explosive charges...

Blaze the trail with napalm.

One wonders if the Feds would own and have control over so many acres if people didn't demand that the collective pay for their parks.

 

[ATOMonkey]

How about just hiking in and using thoughtfully placed explosive charges...

I'm not 100% sure explosives fall into the "handtools" category.

 

[jeremy]

I'm not 100% sure explosives fall into the "handtools" category.

Huh...

Really?!

 

[kiddchaos]

We don't need no stinkin permits!

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The Forest Service declined to comment, but court records indicate they are allowing Tombstone to fix their waterlines but within a swarm of rules the city does not like: no fixing the pipes without permits, no heavy machinery next to some of the springs, and no claiming water rights until the government fact-checks this which, in Arizona, could take years.

Tombstone just elected a new mayor, whose entire campaign platform was based on fixing the water situation faster. He’s going forward with the lawsuit against the feds to keep the spring water, but he’s also looking into drilling new wells for even more water.

Soruce: Story As Old As The West: Tombstone Files Suit For Water | KPBS.org

I also heard they were trying to run the locals out of Rock Ridge to build a railroad!

 

[IndyDave1776]

I'm not 100% sure explosives fall into the "handtools" category.

I would argue that if it can be used by hand, then it is a hand tool.

 

[45fan]

I would argue that if it can be used by hand, then it is a hand tool.

WWAD?(What would Amish do)

 

[jeremy]

I still think Explosives are Hand Tools...

 

[IndyDave1776]

I still think Explosives are Hand Tools...

Agreed without reservation.

 

[ThrottleJockey]

I still think Explosives are Hand Tools...

I agree, so is a bobcat or an excavator as one uses his/her hands to operate it