So there they were, those smug, golfing Northlanders who live somewhere called “Staley Farms Golf Course” — which may we say is a very inelegant name for a ritzy club? — soaking up all the town’s water for their money fountains and gold-producing trees, thinking the city would never catch them. And so what if they were diverting water flow with a four-inch pipe for four months during a hot summer? Who was going to stop them — the laughably incompetent city officials? They’re the nouveau riche, dammit! They will do what they please with society’s communal resources!
Oops.
Kansas City has filed a lien on a Northland golf course that it said owned $1.6 million for city water and other fees.
In September, utility officials said they removed an unauthorized valve on a water line near the Staley Farms Golf Course that they said was diverting water into a storm drain and, eventually, to a pond used for irrigation.
“We’ve never seen a water loss of this value before,” Sean Hennessey, acting chief financial officer at Kansas City Water Services, the city water utility, said Monday.
Wait… so the city did catch them? And now the city has vowed to get its pound of flesh from these fairway-strolling aqua-thieves? Today we strike a blow for populism, Kansas City! Viva Chavez!
