Re: Overheard on the scanner

In article <ddfr-A84438.00464706052008@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:

> wdstarr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (William December Starr) wrote:
>> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> said:
>>> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>>>
>>>> But in addition to through traffic, the homeowners also want to
>>>> discourage "the wrong sort of people" from being there.  You
>>>> know, pedestrians, cyclists, the sort of people who use public
>>>> transit...
>>>
>>> Apparently not, since I gather they don't post no trespassing
>>> signs.
>>
>> "No Trespassing" signs are ugly.  Maybe they don't feel that they
>> get enough trespassers in the first place to make the unaesthetics
>> worth it.
>
> Or maybe you and Paul should adjust your priors on the basis of
> evidence.
>
> Note that I was a Virginia homeowner in that situation, and made
> no attempt to discourage people from taking the short cut down my
> driveway and through the trees behind my back yard to get to the
> shopping mall.

Okay, but let's keep in mind that as evidence goes your experience
constitutes exactly 1 (one) data point.  And while 1 is indisputably
greater than 0, it still ain't all that much.

-- wds