"Only if I get caught."
The
barefoot bandit felt the same way, only if I get caught, and then mom can sell the rights for the book and movie and make millions.
Mom's requirements for her son, was that he only stole twin engine planes to crash land. She didn't want her son getting hurt. The fact that he was crash landing $340,000 planes didn't bother her. Boys will be boys.
Harris-Moore is suspected of being responsible for approximately 100 thefts in Washington, Idaho, and Canada, including bicycles, automobiles, light aircraft, and speedboats.
Yeah that's the condition of our society today; anything goes as long as you don't get caught and when you do, blame it on someone else or something in your childhood. To me it's a lack of character and IMO the fault of the parent, most kids today are raised by a mother that refuses to discipline for fear of hurting their child's feelings.
Back to plumbing codes.
Like I said earlier, if you want an okay to do whatever, then ask the home depot guy.
If you're here asking licensed plumbers, you're not going to get the rubber stamp from them and hear that local codes and permits don't mean crap. They do mean crap.
Or you can ask Gary, he doesn't believe in plumbing codes, period.
I believe in health related codes for plumbing, electrical and buildings etc..
The problem is that to me most residential plumbing, electrical and building codes seem to be based on politics and keeping the trade in business and growing (read making more money), not to protect the health of the population etc..
I do not believe in many plumbing codes in regards to potable water line materials or their application such as are being applied in this thread.
They are basically irrational illogical codes and not health related in the slightest.
Such as PE pipe not being allowed, PVC is OK if buried but not above ground, PVC not inside a house.
None of that is health related, logical or rational IMO and the opinion of many nonplumber Americans.
They are all legal products and FDA approved for potable water line use. That is national.
They have been used for many decades in large multiple state regions of the country if not national and there is no logical or rational reason that homeowners etc. can use them 'here' but as soon as you cross the township, county or state line, or some line the code has been amended on the other side of, you can't use them there or use them the in the same way.
I say if they are legal products and sold in that area, the population should use them anyway they go together. And if there are no water leaks, yer good ta go on to the next project.
And if the plumbing code has a factual reason for them not to be used, then the code writers etc. should lobby politicians to ban the sale of those products instead of this after the fact gotchya BS where a plumbing inspector or house inspector says "no good, do it over" based on a hard to understand code books that the average homeowner has not seen and usually never will see if he lives to be a hundred.
IOWs we should be allowed to use legal products approved by the FDA for that use anyway we/they please as long as the use does not cause others health related problems; such as cross contamination on city water systems due to no backflow check valve on the city service line. And if no backflow prevention device is required in one area, why is it required over that township, county or state line in another area? Isn't it the problem we are being told it is or do the powers that be not care about the health of their citizens?
