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Space Forum / Shuttle / September 2004Is this looting?
Millvale a pittsburgh neighborhood was flooded. A lady saw plastic model kits floating in front of her home, from a hobby shop down the street. She plucked them from the flood waters and put them inside her home. they were water damaged and no saleable. If she hadnt picked them up they would of floated to the riiver. It just so happened someone was videotaping the area and she got arrested based on that recording for looting, a felony. Do you believe she is guilty? HAVE A GREAT DAY! The whole thing depends very much on her intentions I guess. I'd say that you can only loot something if you actually enter unsecured premises and walk off with them. It could be argued that as she has not used them, or sold them, then she is merely storing them and awaiting the verdict of what she should do with them. if she did not tell the shop owner that she had them, then that may go against her, but I'd imagine the case would be thrown out, myself, assuming common sense of course. Brian  SignatureBrian Gaff....Note, this account does not accept Bcc: email. graphics are great, but the blind can't hear them Email: briang1@blueyonder.co.uk ____________________________________________________________________________ __________________________________ > Millvale a pittsburgh neighborhood was flooded. A lady saw plastic model kits > floating in front of her home, from a hobby shop down the street. She plucked [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > Do you believe she is guilty? > HAVE A GREAT DAY! >> Millvale a pittsburgh neighborhood was flooded. A lady saw plastic >>model kits [quoted text clipped - 9 lines] >> >> Do you believe she is guilty? >The whole thing depends very much on her intentions I guess. I'd say that >you can only loot something if you actually enter unsecured premises and [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] >them, then that may go against her, but I'd imagine the case would be >thrown out, myself, assuming common sense of course. That's a hell of an assumption. Top posting fixed. One of the problems with top posting is that everything after a sig gets removed by a decent newsreader. Having got that over with, if I was a cynic I'd say it's much easier to arrest a lady picking up plastic model kits than a real looter, especially now it's legal to own an assault rifle. "Soft target". SignatureWhat have they got to hide? Release the ESA Beagle 2 report. Remove spam and invalid from address to reply. > Millvale a pittsburgh neighborhood was flooded. A lady saw plastic model kits > floating in front of her home, from a hobby shop down the street. She plucked [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > based > on that recording for looting, a felony. The flood did the looting, the flood should be arrested. If I rescue a drowning man from the river do I get charged with throwing him in just because I rescued him? SignatureFree men own guns, slaves don't www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/5357/ |
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