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Brickbat: Rain Man

Charles Oliver | 7.31.2012 6:00 AM

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An Oregon court has sentenced Gary Harrington to 30 days in jail and fined him $1,500 for building three ponds on his property to trap rain water. State law says that water belongs to the city of Medford.

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