Mundane things aren't interesting. And this is representative. Reddit loves to circle jerk about how licenses, government permission and paying professionals.

Mundane things aren't interesting. And this is representative. Reddit loves to circle jerk about how licenses, government permission and paying professionals. Therefore the "crazy stuff" is what you wind up seeing it. Since you brought up a stupid anecdote I'll bring up my own stupid one. A friend of mine was out, mid thunderstorm, fixing the drainage ditch by the road he lives on as it was having problems and trying to go over the road. The state equivalent of the EPA happened to drive by and shut him down. Well, the road wound up getting washed out and the water found a new path of least resistance and caused tens of thousands of dollars of damage. Because the matter was on the state's radar everything took forever and more money to get fixed. To this day he regrets not handling the situation more aggressively.