Re: Overheard on the scanner

Sean O'Hara <seanohara@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> By any reasonable standard, a fence should be interpreted as a
> no-trespassing notice.

I disagree.  And so does the law here in Virginia, which clearly
requires *verbal* notice.  Earlier today in this thread Robert Shull
pointed out that a fence may be for the purpose of keeping a child
from wandering.  It may also be to keep an animal in.  Or it may be
that the previous owner erected it, and the new owner found it easier
to cut a hole in it than to tear the whole thing down, and just as
useful.  As I said, I never know who cuts holes in fences.

There used to be a fence between this apartment complex and the
adjacent strip mall.  There was usually a hole in the fence.  Nobody
was clear on whose fence it was or why it was there.  Eventually it
was torn down.  Nobody seems to miss it.
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