Re: Overheard on the scanner

Howard S Shubs <howard@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> David Friedman <ddfr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> Note that I specified "not inside your house."

> You did, but I'm not sure that's relevant.  As I said in another
> posting, there are examples where people were shot trespassing and
> the law stood aside.

Only when they were behaving in a threatening manner.  For instance
attempting to break into the house.  Or approaching the homeowner in
what looked like a threatening manner, and ignoring his orders to
stop approaching.

I'm aware of the case with the Japanese person who got the wrong
address for a Halloween party.  That was tragic, but also very
unusual.  The victim didn't respond to the gun since he apparently
thought it was part of a Halloween costume, and he ignored the orders
to stop approaching because he didn't understand English.  And the
victim's Halloween costume looked threatening to the homeowner.

There was very nearly a tragedy at the 1980 Disclave (indoors), when a
police SWAT team thought role players were holding real guns, and the
role players thought the police were fellow role players with fake guns.
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