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Re: Please Rob Me

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Post by jrockway » Thu, Feb 18, 2010, 11:38 PM UTC

InclinedPlane wrote: post #127

jrockway wrote: post #96

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Isn't it the insurance company's problem?

If you fill your home with a bunch of generic, replaceable crap that has no meaningful value to you other than that it is available for your use then yes, this is mostly just a hassle for the insurance company, assuming you have receipts and whatnot. Most people, however, are not borg drones and though a check from the insurance company may allow for acquiring replacements for lost items it won't make up for the dama…

I store my photos on Flickr. Everything else... yeah, replaceable crap. Nobody can ever steal the contents of my mind.

Re: Please Rob Me

#132

Post by keefe » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 6:19 PM UTC

demallien wrote: post #124

jrockway wrote: post #23

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So someone gets robbed, then they subpoena the web logs for pleaserobme.com, and then they arrest everyone who visited the site? That doesn't really scale.

Not for finding the robber in the first place, but it's going to look very bad if the police think it's you and then confirm that you visited the site just before the burglary.

it's also evidence of premeditation and if it forms a pattern, that bodes very badly for the sentence

Re: Please Rob Me

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Post by keefe » Fri, Feb 19, 2010, 6:22 PM UTC

jrockway wrote: post #102

keefe wrote: post #51

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lol no, it does not scale nor does it have to - person X commits a crime, they go looking for "evidence" and criminals try to avoid leaving this "evidence" and tend to be very paranoid about it, thus the joke..............................................................................

You should leave fewer periods at the scene of your comment.

length of ellipsis is proportional to how far I felt you'd missed the point of the original joke

Re: Please Rob Me

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Post by Periodic » Wed, Feb 24, 2010, 10:36 PM UTC

liquidben wrote: post #83

Periodic wrote: post #71

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My middle school got bitten by this. The roof collapsed on a burglar and he successfully sued the school. At the time he was not doing anything illegal (as he was outside a public school). The roof was unsafe and we have laws against that to protect HVAC technicians and the like. That he was up to no good was irrelevant.

I'd presume that trespass would apply to this situation, although it would not likely invalidate the lawsuit outright.

That's the thing. As a public school, at least in our area, you're allowed to be on the grounds when the school isn't open. You just can't go inside.

I once was ticketed for being at a park after sunset in our town. The cop explained to my friends and I that if we had just been across the street at the elementary school then it wouldn't have been a problem.