Re: Overheard on the scanner

On  6 May 2008 23:16:37 -0400 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
carved the following into the hard stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom 
>Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 (Paul Ciszek) wrote:
>>> Keith seems to approve of people making holes in them when they are
>>> inconveniently located.
>
>> Which is why I approve of making holes in people.
>
>> Seriously, someone vandalizes my property, comes onto my property
>> univited and without permission.. they are going to meet Mr. Shotgun.
>
>You're not willing to put up a "No Trespassing" sign to give people
>notice that they don't have permission to cross your land, but you are
>willing to just shoot them?  Even though they're not hurting anything,
>and even though you wouldn't even have ever known they were ever there
>unless you kept careful watch from your sniper nest?

Actually I've said several times that I'd post signs. But do you
really think that people who will vandalize my property by cutting
holes in my fence will be stopped by the sign? Or not take them down
so they can later claim that they weren't there?

>Just because someone is using a hole in a fence doesn't mean he's the
>one who put it there.  

Ah. So, if you're driving a stolen car, it's OK because you're not the
one who stole it?

The presense of a fence should be a good signal that access to the
area behind the fence is not desired or allowed. That some vandal
destroyed property does not negate that message.

>For all I know when I see a hole in a fence, it
>was the property owner who put the hole there, as it was easier than
>tearing down the whole unwanted fence that was on the property when he
>bought it.

o_0

Do you actually think like this?
--

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"Where is the prince who can afford so to cover
his country with troops for its defense, as that
ten thousand men descending from the clouds, might 
not,in many places, do an infinite deal of mischief
before a force could be brought together to repel 
them?" - BENJAMIN FRANKLIN-1784