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"The appeals court ruling notes Altstatt contested the city’s code enforcement actions that year. The city sued him in 2015, and he has battled the city in cour

• suyash 4y ago
  idoits are the people in gov who charged him for hacking / pursuing his hobbies in his property.
  • crooked-v 4y ago
    As noted in the city's response, the guy's hobbies were playing host to rat nests bad enough to affect the neighbors.
  • manicdee 4y ago
    It’s only hacking if you do something with it. Otherwise it is just hoarding.
• ryandrake 4y ago
  You're getting downvoted because of the harsh language, but you're right. The defendant brought a banana to a gun fight. Downvoters, please read the actual ruling[1]. He didn't even seem to understand the basics of defending oneself in court, filing motions in the wrong order, making arguments without evidence, and so on. What he should have done was 1. stop doing whatever it is he was accused of until the case cleared up, so fines stopped accruing, and 2. hired a competent attorney to defend him. He didn't do either of these and instead winged it in court complaining about how unfair everything was. I am totally on his side, too. It's ridiculous that you can't work on cars in your backyard. But he did everything wrong in his interactions with the State. If $500K was on the line, would you just yolo it and act as your own attorney? 1: https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/C092141.PDF https://www.courts.ca.gov/opinions/nonpub/C092141.PDF