On Dec 3, 9:43*am, worker bee wrote:

Bear in mind, ALL my friends think the same way as you do, so I do
understand that you may think it loony. However, I don't. I really don't.

I liken it, albeit I'm perhaps pushing the analogies a bit to far to why
you have a well to deliver water to your faucet instead of driving down
to the village well to carry a bucket home every day.

Or, why you buy canned food so you don't have to go to the village to buy
fresh food every day.

Or why you stock up on batteries in case the power goes out and the
generator doesn't kick in during a power outage - instead of just driving
to the center of town to pick up batteries during open hours.

Or why you have more than one set of clothes instead of just washing the
same pair every day.

Or why you bring more firewood into the house than you need so you don't
have to go outside every time you run out of wood in the fireplace.

To me, it's the same concept. I do realize that most of you don't think
this way, but some of you don't have solar panels, a whole-house electric
generator, 1,500 gallons of propane tanks, multiple wells, a septic
system, solar pool heaters, etc., for the 'utilities' of your house
either.

People buy canned food so they have food that will stay fresh longer,
and so they can have a supply on hand just in case the supply of
fresh food is interrupted during some sort of weather related or other
emergency so they can continue to eat once the few days supply
of fresh food they have on hand runs out or can not be properly
stored and has to be disposed of...

Grocery stores are very nice concepts, however when they have
no electrical power they are unable to sell you any of the foodstuffs
they keep locked up inside...

"Stock up on batteries" you mean buying a package of batteries
that has 40 AA batteries in it... LOL... By your logic and the
way you purchase and store gasoline you would be buying
cases of batteries once a year and storing them -- that is not
normal...

Normal people do not buy batteries two at a time, but they also
do not buy cases or pallets of them to keep a hoard of batteries
on hand either...

Normal people have more than one set of clothes because if
they do not have more than one set of clothes everyone
around them will look at them oddly even if those clothes
are washed every night before they are worn the next day...

Normal people do not wear the same exact clothes every
day -- this is why when children go through the phase of
wanting to do it parents try to discourage them out of it...

The firewood analogy seems to be the closest one to the
point you are trying to make -- although in a storm where
you would be needing the firewood to heat your house by
the fireplace would you want to have to go outside and
get wet or cold in order to obtain more fuel? Nope...

Most people keep the woodpile out and away from their
house and will bring some additional wood inside when
they are warned of some extreme weather or cold coming
soon so they don't have to brave the elements to keep
warm during the main event...


I asked the cop about my suspicions. The cop shrugged and said there was
nothing I could do since it was circumstantial. He said there's nothing
wrong with someone complaining to the authorities.


Wrong, there is something wrong with someone using the authorities
to harass and annoy other people... If you feel it was your neighbor,
ask the authorities just what format these anonymous complaints
were received in: if written letters that is excellent, you have to
touch a piece of paper to mail it and there will be fingerprints on
it all you need to do is obtain a sample from the suspected
neighbor and subpoena the original complaint from the authorities
and hire a forensics lab to do the comparison for you;
if it was received via the telephone, excellent, all you need to do
is subpoena the telephone records of your neighbors which will
indicate the calls to each of the inspectors who paid you a visit,
unless they were devious enough to procure a pre-paid cell phone
to use in this dastardly plot against you, then it becomes something
that law enforcement needs to investigate because of the sheer
number of subpoenas that are involved to piece things together;
if it was an e-mail, those are trickier, but a subpoena to the ISP
or owner of the domain name in the e-mail address will result in
the name of the user of that account...


But, I don't have any proof whatsoever. They all said it was an anonymous
complaint. Plus, they've all visited in the past two months, and all left
saying things were in order. One even said I used a lot of common sense
in my setup, which met OSHA standards for commercial storage facilities,
he said, except for the secondary containment horse trough - which I will
add as soon as I find one locally.


Again, there would be a pattern of calls made by one person/telephone
to all of those inspectors that would not be random -- especially if
the
first visit didn't result in what the caller was looking for and they
called
other additional inspectors from more agencies after that took
place...

That sort of thing is using the government to harass and annoy...