Re: Overheard on the scanner

On  7 May 2008 23:01:25 -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:
>> Yes we can.  We can have people who understand that private property
>> is just that, and entitlement whiners like you do not have rights
>> above ours.
>
>It's an "entitlement" to be able to walk to somewhere two miles away
>without walking five miles?

Yes.

>It's not an "entitlement" to be able to exclude anyone from harmlessly
>cutting through your yard, even though you knowingly bought property
>on the shortest path between two neighborhoods not linked by roads,
>and couldn't be bothered to put up a simple "No Trespassing" sign?

And you advocate curtting fences. Tell me Keith, would you be detered
by my little sign?

>> Don't like it?  Too bad.
>
>For once the law is on my side, not yours.  Don't like it?  Too bad.
>You can vote to change the law, unlike me.  Or you can put up a sign.

Which can be torn down by your beloved fence-cutters.

>> To me a six-foot wooden fence means "stop."
>
>It may be saying "stop" to children or animals, not to the general
>public.  Or it may be left over from the previous owner -- especially
>if there's a large hole in it that hasn't been patched.  Or it may
>belong to the property I am leaving, not the property I am entering.

Amazing. you really believe that you are entitled to go where ever you
like, and logic be damned.

>> What, do you really need a sign like this one?
>> http://tinyurl.com/6yxlz2
>
>As I have a text-only account, I have no idea what that says.

*boggle*  You, in this thread, have posted links. You have a website.
And you claim not to be able to see a single image pulled up from
Google?
--

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