Re: PEX (was Re: Not always joking...)

Joe Ellis <synthfilker@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> There's no law against trash picking.

> There is against trespass, theft, and vandalism.

It's not trespass if it's at the curb, which it was.  It's not theft
if it had been put out for trash pickup, which it had.  It's not
vandalism to pick trash up off the ground, which I did.

I also got much of my furniture and electronics from the trash.

> Got your receipt?

> Keith, you of ALL people I would think would be wary of even the
> possibility of the appearance of being in possession of stolen
> property.  Didn't you learn your lesson the first time?

There's prudence and there's paranoia.  I do keep grocery receipts
until I've eaten the food, and receipts for books, CDs, DVDs, and
durable goods at least a year.  I keep bank account statements, pay
stubs, and tax returns forever.  Do you think it's reasonable to
expect anyone to do more?  How many people do even that much?

Obviously, trash doesn't come with receipts.  Nor does anyone expect
it to.

Maybe the copper pipe was implanted with a secret transmitter, falsely
reported as stolen, and placed at the curb where someone knew I would
be walking, in order to entrap me.  The several-years delay since then
is just so I'll let my guard down.  Maybe it was reported stolen from
a murder scene, and tonight at 3 am there will be a knock at the door.
I'll get the electric chair, and the copper pipe will be used to
complete the circuit.  Sure, that could happen.

I'm about a thousand times more worried that someone I trust to let
into my apartment will plant a gun and some drugs, then report them to
the police.  And that's not a major worry of mine.  (Though it is a
bigger worry than that they might simply steal something of mine.)

I'm prudent, but not totally paranoid.  I'll leave the latter to the
9/11 truthers and their ilk.
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