On Jan 3, 5:04*pm, "Califbill" wrote:
"Harryk" *wrote in ...

On 1/3/11 5:48 PM, Wayne.B wrote:

On Mon, 3 Jan 2011 13:16:40 -0800, "Califbill"
*wrote:

I break the law on my skiff. *Pee in a jug and pour overboard. *Illegal
to
pour overboard, but legal to pee directly overboard. *Wasn't it in Boston
where the EPA said they could not dump the snow from the street cleanup
in
to the harbor. *Couple years ago. *But legal to let melt and run off in
to
the harbor. *Common sense is not so common. *Especially in government.

Especially in the EPA - too much education, not enough intelligence -
but very good at preserving their jobs.

There probably are good regulations against dumping snow in harbors and
rivers, and for good reasons. As an aside, the winter I lived in the
Albany, N.Y., area, we had a lot of snow. The plow-equipped dump trucks
pushed the snow down the main street in Albany, a street that ended at
the Hudson River. One overzealous driver pushed his mountain of plowed
snow right into the river (actually, a lot of drivers did that), but
apparently forgot where he was on the space-time continuum. Yup. The
snow, the plow, the truck and the driver...right into the Hudson. The
driver was rescued.

Reply: *Why would there be a regulation against pushing snow in the river to
get rid of it? *The same snow as water will flow in to the river with the
same contaminants and maybe a few cars also,

Who knows, there might accidently be a tire in the pile, or a
bicycle... or corpse.