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To think this woman claiming to have not paid utilities for 9 years is off her rocker?

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coldestfeetever · 10/01/2021 17:51

I follow a pretty avid anti-vax and anti-masker on Instagram for shits and giggles. But her latest post is more obscure than most. She claims she hasn't paid utilities in nine years! She claims she'll upload a video explaining it but I've not seen it yet. I assume since she rents her landlord pays?

To think this woman claiming to have not paid utilities for 9 years is off her rocker?
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NatashaAlianovaRomanova · 10/01/2021 20:39

My friend didn't pay gas for a year when she moved into her new home as she couldn't find out who the supplier was.

Turns out technically there wasn't one - a couple had built a house for their son on their land & the gas was connected to to their property. The couple & their son had been dead for a number of years & the properties had been sold separately. The current owner of the original property wasn't happy that they had been paying someone else's gas bill for the past 10 years when it all eventually got sorted out.

coldestfeetever · 11/01/2021 09:32

It is @officialelliegrey . I can't stop watching, it's like car crash TV. Or at least it's better than what's left on my Netflix watch list!

But there's a scary number of people who properly support her and believe all she says 😞

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SnappedAndFartedInMaui · 11/01/2021 09:47

@coldestfeetever

I follow a pretty avid anti-vax and anti-masker on Instagram for shits and giggles. But her latest post is more obscure than most. She claims she hasn't paid utilities in nine years! She claims she'll upload a video explaining it but I've not seen it yet. I assume since she rents her landlord pays?
Maybe she lives in a yurt up a mountainside somewhere. Is she in the US? There does seem to be a correlation between anti vax and a desire to shun modern day life in cities.

Up to them, doesn't bother me what they do, but I have often wondered at the correlation

00100001 · 11/01/2021 09:52

@JohnMiddleNameRedactedSwanson

Where I live it's 'leccy'.

Sure. Short for electricity!

You could argue that electric is short for electricity 😜
00100001 · 11/01/2021 09:53

Is she not paying a company to access the internet? That's a utility bill surely?

ememem84 · 11/01/2021 10:03

because i'm bored working from home - i've just followed her on instagram.

i'm disappointed that she's said she'll no longer post anything re vaccines covid or anything controversial

waste of a follow in my mind. however im not unfollowing because what if she does......this is how they get you isn't it?

Brownbananabandana · 11/01/2021 10:07

Oh go on, someone please pm me who she is, I could do with a distraction today!

GrapefruitGin · 11/01/2021 10:09

@Brownbananabandana it’s @officialelliegrey

HowOnerous · 11/01/2021 10:14

I knew someone like this, went to enormous lengths to evade landlords and utility companies, also never paid car insurance or road tax or got an mot. Had to stick to non ANPR routes and hide the car at home. Lived like a fugitive, not much fun....

ElementalIllusion · 11/01/2021 10:25

I know someone who did something similar.

She moved into a rented house and just didn’t bother contacting the utility suppliers, four years later they got a warrant to enter the property and she told them she had moved in a month before and had tried to sign up with another supplier but was waiting for it to go through, they asked her for proof and she just mocked up a fake tenancy agreement and they believed it.
She now pays for gas and electricity but still doesn’t pay for water, she just ignored the letters from the water company and in the 8 years they’ve never done anything about it.

WiseOwlRelaxing · 11/01/2021 10:27

wow, how does she not get cut off. Unfortunately I can't read the tiny writing on the screenshot.

GypsyLee · 11/01/2021 10:27

Good for her, I say.

Brownbananabandana · 11/01/2021 10:31

Has she deleted her account? I can’t find her n the handle @grapefruitgin posted

ZoeTurtle · 11/01/2021 10:32

I love Freeman of the Land nutters! They're so entertaining.

WiseOwlRelaxing · 11/01/2021 10:34

This just wouldn't work in Ireland. Confused When I moved in to my house I had to ring up and get the account reconnected in my name, give my account details as the previous owners had rung up and get the supply cut off when they moved out. There is not one sing iota or watt or drop of gas or electricity coming in to your house unless they have permission to take money out of somebody's account!!

SO shocked that they keep sending electricity/gas when there's no account to debit!

ItsGoingTibiaK · 11/01/2021 10:41

Ah, Ellie Grey. She’s wisely deleted all of her historic Holocaust-denial posts and racist, anti-BLM stuff as even many of her gullible, thick followers were a bit shocked by that. Many of the hairdressers etc who were in the papers last year because of their Magna Carta bullshit were using posters supplied by Ellie Grey. She claims to be legally trained but her template letters are just badly-written, pompous bullshit.

Vile person. Can’t get enough of her!

LindaEllen · 11/01/2021 10:45

@TinkersRucksack

I know who you're referring to. She's deluded and dangerous.

My guess is she either has an all inclusive rent or parents help out. There's no way in gods green earth she'd be in any property, rented or otherwise, and use utilities freely without paying for them.

It. Just. Doesn't. Happen.

It does happen.

My auntie and uncle bought a house on a new-build estate and although they were connected to utilities, they didn't receive a bill for over three years. My uncle eventually decided to contact the companies because he felt the longer it went on, the more money he would have to pay in the end - as it's never going to go on forever (what if they had a problem with the supply etc?)

They ended up having to pay a few thousand but spread it out over time.

This was in 1998-2001.

HOkieCOkie · 11/01/2021 11:07

Is this the lady who’s kids eat raw mushrooms and pissed all over this morning.

TinkersRucksack · 11/01/2021 11:10

@LindaEllen yes but theirs was a happy accident of sorts.

She is deliberately going out of her way to pay, as apparently nobody 'owns' electricity or gas.

TinkersRucksack · 11/01/2021 11:13

@ItsGoingTibiaK

Ah, Ellie Grey. She’s wisely deleted all of her historic Holocaust-denial posts and racist, anti-BLM stuff as even many of her gullible, thick followers were a bit shocked by that. Many of the hairdressers etc who were in the papers last year because of their Magna Carta bullshit were using posters supplied by Ellie Grey. She claims to be legally trained but her template letters are just badly-written, pompous bullshit.

Vile person. Can’t get enough of her!

I saw that video, apparently they've cured cancer but there's no money in it so they ignore it.

All you need is an alkaline diet and apricot kernels -job done.

Like I said, dangerous and deluded.

1940s · 11/01/2021 11:47

@HOkieCOkie

Is this the lady who’s kids eat raw mushrooms and pissed all over this morning.
Haha no but I do recall that episode
sabrinathemiddleagewitch · 11/01/2021 12:14

I love the cosmetics video - she wants no chemicals, no alcohol and no aluminium in her face and body products. Fair enough, but she has eyelash extensions with toxic glue, acrylic nails which are full of toxins and box dyed hair??

coldestfeetever · 11/01/2021 12:51

Oh she'll be back to repost, she often gets taken down by Instagram and then she says she won't post anti vax stuff then two days later she has a rant.

There's also her business account @officialpttpuk which contains less video rants and more dangerous links to her templates for avoiding vaccines etc..

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00100001 · 11/01/2021 13:07

@WiseOwlRelaxing

This just wouldn't work in Ireland. Confused When I moved in to my house I had to ring up and get the account reconnected in my name, give my account details as the previous owners had rung up and get the supply cut off when they moved out. There is not one sing iota or watt or drop of gas or electricity coming in to your house unless they have permission to take money out of somebody's account!!

SO shocked that they keep sending electricity/gas when there's no account to debit!

I think they're not actually allowed to cut people off from electricity/gas permanently.
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