On 9/4/97 12:51 AM, Tim May (tcmay@got.net) passed this wisdom:
At 8:28 PM -0700 9/3/97, Sean Roach wrote:
At 03:43 AM 9/4/97 +0200, Anonymous wrote: ...
With this wonderful sucess, We can all look forward to this items being placed in our domiciles in order to further protect us from crime.
And I'll give my kids a can of spray paint and a ladder. Maybe I'll offer bonus prizes if they can figure out an inventive, undetectable way to disable the fucker. ... In Altus, it is illegal to sell spray paint to persons under the age of 18. That makes two violations of their rights that I know of. The curfue which was enacted a couple years ago being the first. All because the local politicians are fully aware that they are too young to vote.
In my community, it is even illegal to buy spray paints and give them or make them available to those under some age (18 or 21...I don't know).
I like my solution a lot better: anyone can buy the fucking spray paint, but taggers are shot down by those whose property they're trespassing on.
Seems consistent with personal freedom and responsibility.
I don't know if the law is still on the books, but when I was an undergrad at Univ of Penn in the 60's you could not buy a water pistol/squirtgun of any kind, because there had been some incidents where people were squirted in the face with ammonia bu a couple of miscreants, so the city council took it upon themselves to 'protect' us all! Brian B. Riley --> http://www.macconnect.com/~brianbr For PGP Keys - Send Email Subject "Get PGP Key" "The more you run over a dead cat, the flatter it gets!"