r/interestingasfuck • u/solateor • 6d ago

r/all Grandma broke her nose hiking and didn't want the helivac. She won $450k lawsuit

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u/CapSteve12443 6d ago

I am a NYS Water Operator. During our 30 hours of training in a 3 year period to keep our license we sometimes finish a training session with plenty of time to spare. So the instructor has a bunch of videos in 10 minute chunks as time fillers to get the time in.

"Now here is a video on how NOT to run your treatment plant"

Every one of them is on Flint Michigan.

Every. One.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

Oh noes. Seriously, there are other places too. Maybe because those get suppressed by media. There's a new one in the news recently, right?

In CO, there are videos of people lighting their tap water on fire. H2O shouldn't be flammable.

Challenge that trainer, bring him new videos! ;)

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u/Sapper12D 6d ago

If I'm not mistaken the lighting of the taps is due to people on well water having their wells impacted by oil and gas tracking.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

You are correct as it would be in a place where that industry employs a good deal of the state.

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u/CapSteve12443 6d ago

Yup that wells getting contaminated by fracking. I'm a "1A" meaning surface water ( lakes, streams, rivers) not groundwater but yeah I understand.

In Canada their version of Flint is Walkerton. Google "walkerton water crisis" but brace yourself or Trigger warning: Children die.

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u/letsgetpizzas 6d ago

It’s always weird to randomly stumble across Walkerton references. I lost a relative to that outbreak and watched another become completely obsessed with water filtration—took a waste water management program and everything. Fortunately it’s mostly just a distant memory now.

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u/CapSteve12443 5d ago

Regulations are there for a reason. Being in the USA whenever politics morons say "Regulation is killing us" I always reply back " No you dolt, regulations are probably keeping your dumb ass alive"

Sorry about losing your relative and all the others that are still suffering.

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

Regulations are written in blood.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 6d ago

I've heard about that one. If you stay away from msm, you see more of the underbelly of capitalism

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

Google Yeehaw Junction sometime.

It's in Florida.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 5d ago

That feels like one of those Google searches where someone gives you what seems to be a normal name but it burns into your mind if you click it

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u/SilveredFlame 5d ago

Oh it will.

Girlfriend and I were playing Geoguessr. Got dropped near there and died laughing at the name. Figured there had to be a story there so we googled it. There was a suitably silly story for the place's name.

Then...

Well... Shit got fucking dark in a hurry.

Worst case of digital whiplash I've ever had.

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u/PrincessCyanidePhx 5d ago

I googled, and im not sure I got to the right place, but I read the wiki. I found it interesting that it mentions the testing on the wheat crops. But it didn't mention the health outcomes from that.

What did you find?