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When I lived in the state of which you speak, I lived far enough away from the crazies in the state capitol that no one paid much attention to their dictates. We basically all did what we wanted. Including collecting any water we felt like collecting.

The bad thing was, any state police "officer" who got caught raping their victims, or doing other things their leash-holders wished to sweep under the rug, got transferred to our region as punishment (or to escape punishment), so we had the nastiest state police around. But they were pretty rare and mostly easy to avoid.

And I still prefer living there to anywhere else I've ever lived.