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- From: carolo@cse.ucsc.edu (Carol Osterbrock)
- Newsgroups: alt.peeves,alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: No trespassing
- Message-ID: <1ekvdoINNck@darkstar.UCSC.EDU>
- Date: 21 Nov 92 09:27:20 GMT
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- In article <lgqplaINNf9e@jethro.Corp.Sun.COM> geoffm@purplehaze.Corp.Sun.COM writes:
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- >Something that's always mystified me are those signs that say, "Posted - No
- >Trespassing." I don't know about the rest of you, but "No Trespassing" pretty
- >much says it all for me. Unless it has some addition meaning that I'm not
- >aware of, all the word "posting" adds is a notification that somebody put
- >(i.e., "posted" the sign there). So the end result is a sign that means,
- >"Somebody Put This Sign Here - Keep Out." Which is silly, because I can
- >*see* that somebody put the sign there!
-
- Now, that is something that I heard a story about, which may be
- mythology, so I changed the newsgroups a little, that you are right.
- The signs when I was a kid just said "No Trespassing", but somewhere
- somebody went wandering on somebody else's land and shot a deer or
- cut down a tree or something, and the property owner sued the
- trespasser, and the defense was that only sign was one at the gate to
- the property and the guy that wandered in there didn't see it, and
- even if he had it wasn't clear that it was put up by the people that
- owned it, so the court ruling was that you had to say that you had
- posted the sign, and they had to be all over the fences and
- everything, and they have to say who posted them.
-
- Now I myself have to say that as near as I can tell every square inch
- of this great country of ours belongs to somebody, and unless you know
- them it is probably a bad idea to go out shooting deer on their land,
- but apparently if somebody only puts up a sign that says "No
- Trespassing", they can't have your 10-pt buck, and if they put up a
- sign that says "Posted no trespassing by C. Osterbrock" they can.
- And the law says they have to be every quarter mile or something along
- the property line, too.
-
- Peeve: lawyers. Have you ever noticed that everybody that passes
- *laws* is a *lawyer*? Talk about your conflict of interests. They
- have spent years in law school learning how to get past worrying about
- right and wrong and getting down to the important stuff, like keeping
- their jobs, and helping out all their friends...
-
- Oh wait this is a crosspost, I'll lay off the peeves. So what *is*
- the reason for the Posted No Trespassing signs?
-
- later
- -carol
-
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