Re: Overheard on the scanner

On Thu, 08 May 2008 21:26:31 -0700, Douglas Berry
<penguin_boy@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

>On  Thu, 08 May 2008 17:27:25 -0600 Doug Wickstrom
><nimshubur@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> carved the following into the hard stone of
>rec.arts.sf.fandom 
>>On 7 May 2008 22:49:44 -0400, "Keith F. Lynch"
>><kfl@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>>
>>>I've never heard of it being allowed to shoot trespassers outdoors
>>>anywhere, except in secure areas on military bases that are clearly
>>>marked, "Use of Deadly Force Authoritzed."
>>
>>Not even then, if the only problem is trespass.
>
>You never guarded a Pershing II site. The signs on our wire stated
>that this was a secure facility, and use of deadly force was
>authorized without warning. In English, German, and Dutch. With a cute
>little picture of a guy getting shot.

No, I never guarded a Pershing II site.  But I've been on board
plenty of nuclear-armed B-52s.  I'd have been quite annoyed to
have been shot because my partner wandered off, even though it is
potentially possible.

It's still not the same thing as the standard ISA of 1950 warning
on the fence around the typical military base.  Tell me:  If you
had shot someone for just being inside the fence at say, Ft.
Sill, what would have happened to you?  Which of the two could
you have expected:  a commendation, or a trial?
-- 
Doug Wickström
har fiol, vill resa