I was recently driving down a country road up in the mountains and the passenger and I had to use the bathroom so I took a side road that went about 15 feet and ended in a small forested clearing. We got out and did our business then 2 county police SUVs pulled up and after about a 45 minutes of threats and questioning we were both handcuffed and arrested on charges of criminal tresspassing II (Outdoor tresspassing) After spending the weekend in jail I was arreigned and got to read the police report. Apparently this was a private driveway for a house that will be built the following year and the owner saw us from the housee he is living in now which is up on the hill. Now there were no private driveway or no tresspassing signs on the driveway which probably would have turned us around but it is the law and after talking to my lawyer it seems hopeless to fight this charge (Our town has a population of around 900 people and the good old boy system is extremely hard to break without spending a small fortune to bring a lawyer from a larger city such as Seattle or Bellevue in to fight for you. As of this time the state is asking for 180 days in jail with 170 suspended and a total fine of $1850 with 2 years of supervised probation and random drug testing. Seems somewhat of the same to me as I also run an unsecured wireless network and I dont mind if people log in and use my network. It seems to me that if you dont want someone using your network, take a second to read your router's manual and put a password on it. Then there are always the people who just set traps like building a driveway 30 miles up a dirt road and not putting a sign or gate on it and wait on a hill with binoculars waiting for someone to tresspass....
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I used to joke about things like this in a residential home but in the light of some of the recent floods its actually not a bad idea. http://www.klsecurity.com/waterproof-harddrive.htm
http://www.jltmobile.com/water.asp
Too bad you cant just order a waterproof house from Sears. Oh wait, they make boats for that.
I was recently driving down a country road up in the mountains and the passenger and I had to use the bathroom so I took a side road that went about 15 feet and ended in a small forested clearing. We got out and did our business then 2 county police SUVs pulled up and after about a 45 minutes of threats and questioning we were both handcuffed and arrested on charges of criminal tresspassing II (Outdoor tresspassing) After spending the weekend in jail I was arreigned and got to read the police report. Apparently this was a private driveway for a house that will be built the following year and the owner saw us from the housee he is living in now which is up on the hill. Now there were no private driveway or no tresspassing signs on the driveway which probably would have turned us around but it is the law and after talking to my lawyer it seems hopeless to fight this charge (Our town has a population of around 900 people and the good old boy system is extremely hard to break without spending a small fortune to bring a lawyer from a larger city such as Seattle or Bellevue in to fight for you. As of this time the state is asking for 180 days in jail with 170 suspended and a total fine of $1850 with 2 years of supervised probation and random drug testing. Seems somewhat of the same to me as I also run an unsecured wireless network and I dont mind if people log in and use my network. It seems to me that if you dont want someone using your network, take a second to read your router's manual and put a password on it. Then there are always the people who just set traps like building a driveway 30 miles up a dirt road and not putting a sign or gate on it and wait on a hill with binoculars waiting for someone to tresspass....