Re: Overheard on the scanner

On Thu, 08 May 2008 16:21:57 -0700, Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On  7 May 2008 22:49:44 -0400 "Keith F. Lynch" <kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
>carved the following into the hard stone of rec.arts.sf.fandom 
>
>>And we weren't talking about trespassing anyway, but about crossing
>>property that you have no reason to think the owner objects to
>>your crossing.
>
>Walking onto another person's property is trespassing.

Note that it is _I_ who am disagreeing with you.

It isn't trespass unless there is notification that it is
trespass.  Some times notification must be a sign, sometimes a
fence, sometimes verbal.  Until then it is not trespass.

>Tell me, if you hop into a car and drive it away with no reson to
>believe that the owner would object to you borrowing it for an hour or
>so, is that still grand theft auto?

Not in this state.  For example, it is not possible for me to
"steal" my wife's car unless she explicitly tells me I cannot
drive it.  Otherwise, I have no "reson" to believe that the owner
would object to me borrowing it.
-- 
Doug Wickström
har fiol, vill resa