Subject: Boundary crossing deterrents(was tree cat damage)
From: (Nick Maclaren)
Date: 31/12/2003 16:41 GMT Standard Time
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In article ,
Janet Baraclough wrote:
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But surely if you can only become injured by clambering over said
wall/fence, you cease to be a passer by and become an unwelcome visitor

Unwelcome visitors, thieves and burglars are entitled to go about
their business unmolested by their victims, as Tony Martin discovered.

So, the next time you get lost and go to the wrong house, the owner
should be entitled to shoot you in the back as you leave?

Yes, Martin's victims were attempting burglary, but that does not
justify shooting them as they fled.

Ok, can I just point out, before the flames get too high, that Martin's guilt
was decided by a jury. A collection of ordinary people much like us, with
their own prejudices and ideas about the law and those people like us decided
what he did amounted to murder.

They sat and listened to all sides and saw all the evidence. Most of us
probably only got what was reported by the media and judging by some of the
reports it was a horribly slanted view.

My point is that somewhere in all that evidence they saw something which
justified to these ordinary people finding him guilty.

Ok, carry on with the flames.
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