Re: Overheard on the scanner

On May 7, 1:28=A0am, David Friedman <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> =A0Douglas Berry <penguin_...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On =A0Tue, 6 May 2008 14:17:46 +0000 (UTC) nos...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > Ciszek) carved the following into the hard stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom
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> > >In article <68b4naF2r4ud...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >Sean O'Hara =A0<seanoh...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>In the Year of the Earth Rat, the Great and Powerful William
> > >>December Starr declared:
> > >>> In article <ddfr-F37CCA.15302304052...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>> David Friedman <d...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > >>>> Apparently not, since I gather they don't post no trespassing
> > >>>> signs.
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> > >>> "No Trespassing" signs are ugly. =A0Maybe they don't feel that
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> > >>> get enough trespassers in the first place to make the unaesthetics
> > >>> worth it.
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> > >>Ever hear of a fence?
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> > >Keith seems to approve of people making holes in them when they are
> > >inconveniently located.
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> > Which is why I approve of making holes in people.
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> > Seriously, someone vandalizes my property, comes onto my property
> > univited and without permission.. they are going to meet Mr. Shotgun.
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> That is, under current legal rules--probably under anglo-American law
> going back well over a century--a very risky policy.
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> And if the person is coming onto your land uninvited and without
> permission but not vandalizing, I don't think you have a hope of winning
> in either a criminal or civil trial.

Here in MA, if you verbally tell them they're trespassing, and order
them to leave, they are in violation of the law unless they do so
immediately. You can call the cops to remove them if they
don't comply.

But absent any threat of violence, producing a firearm may get
you in a lot of trouble.

The rules change if they're inside your house uninvited.

pt