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Article #33Re: I BEAT Parking Services for only a nickel.
From: Paul Gilmartin
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 16:59
Date: Sat, 08 Aug 1992 16:59
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In article <1992Aug8.082314@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes: >Having meterpersons (?!:-) waiting for meters to expire is silly, and >wasteful, but it's not "entrapment." That term has been tossed around >carelessly. Informally, what "entrapment" means is "doing something to >persuade someone to break a law, then charging them with it." The >essential point of entrapment is creating a situation in which someone >breaks a law he wouldn't have broken except for the artificially-created >situation. Can I assume that if the enforcers dispatched a voluptuous "meterperson (?!:-)" to engage me in conversation (of whatever sort) thereby distracting me until the meter expired, that would constitute entrapment? :-) Actually, I've never been very partial to the (?!:-) physiognomy. gil
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Newsgroups: boulder.general Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!boulder!csn!stortek!LSTC2VM.stortek.com!GILMART From: GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com (Paul Gilmartin) Subject: Re: I BEAT Parking Services for only a nickel. Message-ID: <1683D9A91.GILMART@LSTC2VM.stortek.com> Sender: usenet@stortek.com Nntp-Posting-Host: lstc2vm.stortek.com Organization: StorageTek SW Engineering References: <1992Aug7.220938.18613@colorado.edu> <1992Aug7.225708.20356@colorado.edu> <1992Aug8.041733.29756@colorado.edu> <1992Aug8.082314@eklektix.com> Date: Sat, 8 Aug 1992 16:59:19 GMT Lines: 18