Re: Overheard on the scanner

On  Tue, 06 May 2008 22:28:17 -0700 David Friedman
<ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> carved the following into the hard
stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom 
>In article <ku422495eagjrs5blfclu1fggvcni6c3v4@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
> Douglas Berry <penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>> Seriously, someone vandalizes my property, comes onto my property
>> univited and without permission.. they are going to meet Mr. Shotgun.
>
>That is, under current legal rules--probably under anglo-American law 
>going back well over a century--a very risky policy.
>
>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.

If the person has ignored my fence and my No Tresspassing signs, he
will be met by me with me a firearm while the authorities are
summoned.

Call it the legacy of having lived in some pretty rough areas, but I
do not assume that people wandering into my space are innocents.
Especially if they gain access by coming through a hole in a fence or
the like.
--

Douglas E. Berry  Do the OBVIOUS thing to send e-mail

"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