At 09:51 AM 9/26/01 -0700, Tim May wrote:
On Wednesday, September 26, 2001, at 08:03 AM, David Honig wrote:
I've had the fire department wandering through my back yard. I saw a guy in a blue uniform walking around my back yard, so I yelled "Can I help
Its the blue *helmets* not uniforms that one should worry about :-)
This thread is an advertisement for big noisy dogs, too.
The neighbor closer to the main road than I am has just such a big, noisy dog. "Shadow" is part-wolf, and is mean, vicious, and loud.
Not sociopath dogs, just guard-like dogs that would hassle an agent hanging out on your front bench. A nice slobbery dog with a loud voice and some reasonable sense of territorial sovereignty. Maybe some hostility to men in suits.
The point being, dogs are usually either so vicious they are chained or locked-up, or are docile enough to just wag their tails when the nice men in the FBI suits approach.
My cat agrees that dogs are in general useless noisy and annoying but consider how useful they are in secure installations (jails, mil bases, gulags, etc.) For physical security and alarms, dogs are pretty good.
Anyway, my cats would probably not like a dog around. Nor would I. (Dogs are fine, but they take a lot of care and they interfere with trips away from home.)
Dogs are drunk football players. Cats are considered *public good* and allowed to roam freely, in Calif. Cats also reduce the incidence of allergies (by altering immunoglobin levels differently from other antigens like mites) among children living with them (as reported in _Science_). And of course they have hackernature.
Chief Justice Warren Burger used to answer the door at his Washington-area house with a handgun in his hand.
Nice. Do not taunt *that* happy fun judge.
He no doubt could have gotten one of the various exemptions, as he was not one of the proles.)
Yeah, slightly, a supreme...
(For the curious, it is not a violation of the carry laws to have a handgun on one's person in one's own property, even, interestingly, a tent. Unless barred by other laws (National Parks, etc.).
Or work. Many companies have private rules against that, but otherwise its legally protected. Lots of gun store employees wear open carry at work, not many others. Pilots I suppose, now.