Hi AVB,
still hanging in there ok? Not sure if the Don has things under control there yet, I think he is finding it better to go and sort out problems in the Middle East, problems back home are too hard. I can understand the reasoning behind plumbing regulations to prevent possible contamination of water supplies because as you are aware of what some numnuts get up to with mowers, they are the same people who would tackle botch up jobs on the plumbing.
As for me mowing my neighbours lawn I would think that would cop a $1650 fine, and they have been dishing out plenty of those recently. They have imposed a ring of steel around the metropolitan area and if you try to leave this area without the correct paperwork you can be hit with a $5000 fine. Then we have our nightime cerfew that locked everybody down from 8pm till 5am with the same fines being imposed on anybody caught out of their home without valid paperwork