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Article #3988Re: 'Vigilante justice' is better than no justice
From: Tom S.
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 21:17
Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 21:17
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"Wotan" <wotan@DeathPenguin.com> wrote in message news:aud348$c0m$1@reader1.panix.com... > As part of a Turing test > phxbrd <phxbrd@earthlink.net> posted: > > >> BTW, you are aware that the desert is a fraile environment, and have a few > >> million people walk through the same spot isn't good for it, right? > >> > >> >One broke a lock on a water faucet last year, too.... > >> > >> In one case, the rancher said the broken valve probably cost him about $5k > >> in lost water, damage to the tank, and repairs to the tank supports that > >> were washed out. > > > >Anyone locking a water valve in the desert deserves to have his nuts slowly > >twisted off. > > > >Mebbe that rancher learned a valuable lesson. > > Yes. To shoot trespassers. That rancher invested a lot of time and money > to bring in a scarce resource that is essential to his livelihood. > > And you not only condone people stealing from him, but seem to take cheer > from the fact that what the theives didn't need they let bleed into the > land. Theives that were too stupid to consider carrying water when > crossing the desert. Good thing he didn't run a bank. Phxbrd would demand he leave the vault open during hard economic times.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1042ac,82ccf392a4ce3220 X-Google-Attributes: gid1042ac,public X-Google-Thread: 1084c1,82ccf392a4ce3220 X-Google-Attributes: gid1084c1,public X-Google-Thread: 103916,82ccf392a4ce3220 X-Google-Attributes: gid103916,public X-Google-Thread: 1037c2,82ccf392a4ce3220 X-Google-Attributes: gid1037c2,public X-Google-Thread: 109097,82ccf392a4ce3220 X-Google-Attributes: gid109097,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2002-12-25 13:17:33 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!archiver1.google.com!news1.google.com!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!nntp-relay.ihug.net!ihug.co.nz!west.cox.net!cox.net!p01!news2.east.cox.net.POSTED!53ab2750!not-for-mail From: "Tom S." <snews@cox.net> Newsgroups: tx.general,az.general,houston.general,soc.culture.usa,neworleans.general References: <7e4bfa4a.0212080943.43cc7982@posting.google.com> <atec5s$12k9f1$2@ID-149074.news.dfncis.de> <ath1jo$nmp$1@reader1.panix.com> <atibbs$14b7kr$1@ID-149074.news.dfncis.de> <aud348$c0m$1@reader1.panix.com> Subject: Re: 'Vigilante justice' is better than no justice Lines: 35 Organization: Ministry of Silly Walks MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 Message-ID: <MfpO9.68111$pe.2305718@news2.east.cox.net> Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 21:17:32 GMT NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.104.167.123 X-Complaints-To: abuse@cox.net X-Trace: news2.east.cox.net 1040851052 68.104.167.123 (Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:17:32 EST) NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Dec 2002 16:17:32 EST