Jailed for Not Using Public Utilities

Off-Grid - life unplugged: solar, wind, hydro, architecture, smallholdings, free stuff » William Williams fighting fund:

"This web site is organising donations to help pay lawyers for a Pittsburgh man who uses no public utilities — and has served three stints in the county jail because of his battles. Now he faces more legal wrangling for refusing to tap into the local sewage system.

Off-Grid was the first to report on William Williams, 78, of Cecil, back in 2006. Now Williams is again pressing ahead with his long- held doctrine that he, not public utilities or authorities, dictates what happens on his property. He describes utility companies and authorities as ‘troublemakers,’ ‘bullies’ and ‘yo-yos with queer ideas’ about encroaching on people’s lives."