Digital Fingerprinting

[Brian Davis]

On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Peter Trei wrote:

> > Finding the mail mixed in there is evidence that supports the "charge" 
> > but surely can be rebutted.  When I was practicing in a small town c. 
> > 1984, people would be summoned (sent a paper telling them to show up) to 
> > court for illegal dumping if their mail was found with other trash, old 
> > refrigerators, etc., in a creek somewhere.  Those charged could always 
> > put on proof that Billy Bob's garbage service picked up their trash ...
> 
> > The sentence was almost always to go and pick up some multiple of the 
> > garbage found and take it to the landfill.
> 
> This was Stockbridge, in MA, right :-?

No, it was in Western Kentucky with a week or two of a family's garbage 
and maybe a worn out appliance or two.  No garbage pickup provided by the 
county; private haulers expensive; dropping much at the landfill both 
inconvenient and "unnecessary" given the availability of hard to find 
valleys and creeks.

EBD

 
> 	        That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a
> 	thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't
> 	get up until the next morning, when we got a phone call from officer
> 	Obie.  Said "Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a
> 	half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any
> 	information bout it". I said "Yes Sir Officer Obie, I cannot tell a
> 	lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
> (c) Arlo Guthrie
> 
> 
>  
> 
> Peter Trei
> Senior Software Engineer
> Purveyor Development Team                                
> Process Software Corporation
> http://www.process.com
> trei at process.com
> 

Not a lawyer on the Net, although I play one in real life.
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