Don't try living off the grid in your own house!

I'd commend her for her efforts but she certainly hasn't gone about it in the correct way. The story indicates that she was using the municipal sewer without paying a sewer bill, had been doing so for over a year.

Can you expand on who and what was going on with your meter? A weeks worth of abnormal activity shouldn't set off any alarms for a utility. I mean we all go on vacation.