Nice. Here's mine, also note that some special circumstances still list trespass as criminal offence, such as trespass with a firearm (armed trespass) which, regardless of whether the weapon was loaded or not, concealed in a case, slip or holster or carried openly, carries a mandatory penalty of five years imprisonment on top of any other charges brought (eg criminal damage, theft, or wounding). Refer to other posts of mine dotted around that refer to trespass, which give more examples.
I hunt with an 11.7fpe air rifle. I can put a.22 jacketed hollowpoint through a rabbit's eye at 70 yards. I'm damn good at it. Pigeons? No problem for me either, though I tend to use something with a bit *less* power when I'm firing into the air, like a 7fpe.177 which also fires one single pellet (I usually use something very light like a wadcutter). I do not often miss out to 60-80 yards.
hmmm... have someone with a scanner looking for control frequencies, then flood that frequency causing powered loss of control, turning an annoyance into an unguided missile. Smart.
Safer to shoot it down. I would say legal as well if you're on your private property and this thing's spoiling your enjoyment of that property.
They don't need to. Private UAV contractors are operating drones which have cameras powerful enough to take images good enough for individual identification from altitudes of 1500-2000 feet. You wouldn't even know it was there (you certainly wouldn't hear it), unless you were looking for it.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK the regulations are very specific: Feral pigeons are a pest species, to be destroyed by any lawful means; this includes destruction of eggs/nests, preventive measures on building overhangs against roosting birds (pigeons are by nature cliff dwellers), and shooting them. If a pigeon is on your land (owner or tenant) or you have the authorisation by the landowner to be on his land with a firearm of whatever description covered by whatever ticket necessary (air rifles over 12fpe and pistols over 6fpe require a class 1 firearms ticket, those below require no licence whatsoever), and you have the means to destroy it with a clean shot you're pretty much obliged by Law to do precisely that.
People eat wood pigeons. Squabs are wood pigeons. Collared doves are nice as well. Town pigeons should be avoided because they're riddled with disease and can kill you two hundred different ways (including the amount of ammonia in their droppings which eats through concrete). Some markets (I've seen this in the UK, it isn't confined the the poorest regions of Indian AK47 Country) have denuded town pigeons hanging on stalls for sale as squabs. BE SURE OF THE SOURCE.
Wood pigeons, yes; braised with rabbit and pheasant, on a bed of roast peppers and turnip. Luvverly.
Town pigeons, on the other hand, are disease-ridden rats with wings that need to be controlled. Their droppings cause asthma and also contain parasites that cause severe digestive system problems. There's enough ammonia in their droppings to corrode concrete - I've seen buildings come down because of this. With people inside.
By the way, chickens are by nature omnivorous: they eat grains, bugs, worms... battery chickens are fed a mixture of vegetable protein and blood meal with added hormones to make them a: fat and b: produce more eggs. I have to say that I prefer the yard chicken as their meat is better tasting, better texture-wise and unlike supermarket chickens, not pumped with water post-mortem to artificially increase weight.
A word has been invented and used to label what is essentially assault, simply because it is minors assaulting minors. Can we PLEASE call it what it is and DEAL WITH IT as ASSAULT? As in, treat it as a CRIMINAL OFFENCE instead of just saying "kids will be kids"::rolleyes::? Let's make examples of these so-called "bullies", criminalise their activities and maybe the incidence will go DOWN.
I wasn't "bullied" at school. I was ASSAULTED. My overachievement in all fields of study suffered, so by the time I got to college age I just couldn't be arsed any more. I went from straight-A to C/D/E/F in my GCSEs, and scraped by in A-level physics and biology and completely failed advanced math. Fortunately I managed to beat that stigma and went on to run several successful businesses, all of which I parted company with reputation intact and no creditors.
As an aside, schools don't like it when you send them Cease & Desist notices to get them to address problems of targetted assaults on their students which they're doing nothing about. They like it even less when you pull your own kids from their institutions citing "multiple assaults by students and teaching staff" with dates and times. They go all out to perjure themselves in sudden and unexpected parallel care proceedings when you file suit against the local education authority for failure to perform to expectations as Corporate Parents in ensuring student safety.
So it's not just a culture of "bullying" that schools are neglecting until it's thrown into the limelight by pissed off parents who are having to take their kids to the hospital every two weeks, it's a culture of perpetuation of the problem on the part of the institutions, whose staff themselves are PART OF THE PROBLEM. Let's have this all out in the open so we can DEAL WITH IT, before more kids die at the hands of these "bullies" through terminal attacks or suicides!
nothing's impossible, I would go look on the shelves in HMV or wherever, look at the inlays on the CDs - if there's a website it'll be indicated somewhere near the barcode. If not, then Google is your friend.:)
Most artists have links to purchase or download their work on their website.
Go to the artists' website. There you'll likely as not find a link or ten to Amazon or iTunes if they have a pressed-disc contract, or to direct downloads via http/ftp or torrents or some other free method if they're that way inclined to distribute their music. It's a model that works - just go to the Stereophonics website and download an album or two - and donate what you want! They made more off a single album this way than they ever did through a Big Five label with all their other material combined!
I think someone's reading comprehension is shot to hell. My situation play STARTED: Someone is in my home uninvited, they are trespassers intent to do harm to those who are authorised to be in my home.
if you have to move the gate to gain entry then it's trespass. If you are trespassing to recover your own property then it's still only trespass. The only burden on you is to prove a: that the gate was ajar if you are going the whole hog, and/or b: that the stolen property is yours. If you can do b to the criminal standard (produce receipts, photographs and/or insurance documents), then chances are that the trespass charge against you would be dropped anyway.
Assault is (basically) when I do something that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety of body, and posess the means to carry through with it. Basically -- it's when I draw my fist back threatening to punch you, but not the actual punch itself -- although if I do punch you, you almost certainly reasonably fear for your safety.
Wrong. Common assault is the unwanted contact of any part of one person's body with any part of another person's body no matter how violent or incidental. Offences Against The Person Act 1861 and section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. I could swat a bit of dandruff off your shoulder or tap your elbow to get your attention. If you're having a bad day you could press charges for common assault and they would STICK. The second an incident of contact causes bruising or swelling or draws blood, then it's a battery and carries a separate charge. Pardon the pun, but the terminology is correct.
And half the idiots that toss the word assault around don't have the first clue what it actually is.
Well, guess what: there are some lawyers on here.
Also -- if you're an LP person, and you tackle me, in most states you're going to be fired on the spot, and the amublance chasers will be checking to see if your employer or yourself missed a single training course indicating never to do that... because they'll lose everything they have. If the employer screwed up -- I'm rich! If you screwed up, you're fired, and your wages garnished...forever.
For the record, "stealing" isn't a legal term I've ever seen codified in anything I've ever reviewed, going back to...'recent antiquity' -- but it might be out there somewher.
Try section 56 of the Offences Against The Person Act 1861: the heading is Child Stealing.
Hacking isn't the same thing as "assault, theft, or trespass"...yes, there's some progress at last ijn that reasoning. It's not needed though.
"Stealing" isn't the same thing as "mugging", "carjacking", "burgling", "robbery" or.... Any of the other crimes that get correlated with them such as battery, assault, breaking and entering, possession of burglar's tools, home invasion...
Technically, it is. Stealing is the intentional deprivation of some material thing from someone. Carjacking, robbery, larceny, burgling: these are methods.
ok. If you force a gate to recover your illegally taken vehicle, you could be done for trespass, which would be mitigated by your intent to recover "your" property. I used quotes because you don't actually own that vehicle, the DVLA does (in the UK). When you register that vehicle, you get a form back (registration document) describing the vehicle, and describing you as the "RESIGTERED KEEPER". You do not own the vehicle, you just signed over title and ownership to a corporation; you are responsible for making sure it is kept roadworthy until such time as you fuck up enough to warrant agents (traffic enforcement officers) of the owners (the DVLA) to tow that vehicle with zero notice and stuff it through a compactor.
Back to topic: if you walk onto the property without having to force a gate (or even if there is no gate), then you cannot be done for trespass, even if there is signage denying public right of way. For a trespass claim to work there HAS TO BE a PHYSICAL barrier to entry.
breaking and entering v., n. entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization. If there is intent to commit a crime (of any description beyond the actual entry), this is burglary. If there is no such intent, the breaking and entering alone is common trespass.
I stopped a police officer cold on this. Told him he had three seconds to get the fuck out of my kitchen (I had just come in from work and found him there talking to my wife who was clearly unhappy) or I would treat him as a trespasser. He only had to look at the 5D maglite hanging off my belt to know what that meant - and he didn't have a fucking leg to stand on. I am Master and Law in my own home, and he didn't have a warrant. Bye bye, titfuck.
when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Someone is in my home uninvited, they are trespassers intent to do harm to those who are authorised to be in my home. I will use whatever means at my disposal to stop that individual.
Blockbuster know this. This is why Blockbuster are selling up. That said, Domino's Pizza are offering free movie rentals with pizzas now - maybe move to pizza delivery?
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yeah there were times when I wished thirtieth trimester abortions were legal...
Nice. Here's mine, also note that some special circumstances still list trespass as criminal offence, such as trespass with a firearm (armed trespass) which, regardless of whether the weapon was loaded or not, concealed in a case, slip or holster or carried openly, carries a mandatory penalty of five years imprisonment on top of any other charges brought (eg criminal damage, theft, or wounding). Refer to other posts of mine dotted around that refer to trespass, which give more examples.
still sounds fucking sweet. Where do I get these things in .22??
I hunt with an 11.7fpe air rifle. I can put a .22 jacketed hollowpoint through a rabbit's eye at 70 yards. I'm damn good at it. Pigeons? No problem for me either, though I tend to use something with a bit *less* power when I'm firing into the air, like a 7fpe .177 which also fires one single pellet (I usually use something very light like a wadcutter). I do not often miss out to 60-80 yards.
hmmm... have someone with a scanner looking for control frequencies, then flood that frequency causing powered loss of control, turning an annoyance into an unguided missile. Smart.
Safer to shoot it down. I would say legal as well if you're on your private property and this thing's spoiling your enjoyment of that property.
They don't need to. Private UAV contractors are operating drones which have cameras powerful enough to take images good enough for individual identification from altitudes of 1500-2000 feet. You wouldn't even know it was there (you certainly wouldn't hear it), unless you were looking for it.
I don't know about the US, but in the UK the regulations are very specific: Feral pigeons are a pest species, to be destroyed by any lawful means; this includes destruction of eggs/nests, preventive measures on building overhangs against roosting birds (pigeons are by nature cliff dwellers), and shooting them. If a pigeon is on your land (owner or tenant) or you have the authorisation by the landowner to be on his land with a firearm of whatever description covered by whatever ticket necessary (air rifles over 12fpe and pistols over 6fpe require a class 1 firearms ticket, those below require no licence whatsoever), and you have the means to destroy it with a clean shot you're pretty much obliged by Law to do precisely that.
You don't need Mythbusters for that, pigeon tastes like a cross between beef liver and duck.
People eat wood pigeons. Squabs are wood pigeons. Collared doves are nice as well. Town pigeons should be avoided because they're riddled with disease and can kill you two hundred different ways (including the amount of ammonia in their droppings which eats through concrete). Some markets (I've seen this in the UK, it isn't confined the the poorest regions of Indian AK47 Country) have denuded town pigeons hanging on stalls for sale as squabs. BE SURE OF THE SOURCE.
Wood pigeons, yes; braised with rabbit and pheasant, on a bed of roast peppers and turnip. Luvverly.
Town pigeons, on the other hand, are disease-ridden rats with wings that need to be controlled. Their droppings cause asthma and also contain parasites that cause severe digestive system problems. There's enough ammonia in their droppings to corrode concrete - I've seen buildings come down because of this. With people inside.
By the way, chickens are by nature omnivorous: they eat grains, bugs, worms... battery chickens are fed a mixture of vegetable protein and blood meal with added hormones to make them a: fat and b: produce more eggs. I have to say that I prefer the yard chicken as their meat is better tasting, better texture-wise and unlike supermarket chickens, not pumped with water post-mortem to artificially increase weight.
A word has been invented and used to label what is essentially assault, simply because it is minors assaulting minors. Can we PLEASE call it what it is and DEAL WITH IT as ASSAULT? As in, treat it as a CRIMINAL OFFENCE instead of just saying "kids will be kids" ::rolleyes::? Let's make examples of these so-called "bullies", criminalise their activities and maybe the incidence will go DOWN.
I wasn't "bullied" at school. I was ASSAULTED. My overachievement in all fields of study suffered, so by the time I got to college age I just couldn't be arsed any more. I went from straight-A to C/D/E/F in my GCSEs, and scraped by in A-level physics and biology and completely failed advanced math. Fortunately I managed to beat that stigma and went on to run several successful businesses, all of which I parted company with reputation intact and no creditors.
As an aside, schools don't like it when you send them Cease & Desist notices to get them to address problems of targetted assaults on their students which they're doing nothing about. They like it even less when you pull your own kids from their institutions citing "multiple assaults by students and teaching staff" with dates and times. They go all out to perjure themselves in sudden and unexpected parallel care proceedings when you file suit against the local education authority for failure to perform to expectations as Corporate Parents in ensuring student safety.
So it's not just a culture of "bullying" that schools are neglecting until it's thrown into the limelight by pissed off parents who are having to take their kids to the hospital every two weeks, it's a culture of perpetuation of the problem on the part of the institutions, whose staff themselves are PART OF THE PROBLEM. Let's have this all out in the open so we can DEAL WITH IT, before more kids die at the hands of these "bullies" through terminal attacks or suicides!
nothing's impossible, I would go look on the shelves in HMV or wherever, look at the inlays on the CDs - if there's a website it'll be indicated somewhere near the barcode. If not, then Google is your friend. :)
OK, I know this is gonna get messy now: citation needed.
I entirely agree, although of course the Law knows no moral compass. A thing is or it isn't.
Most artists have links to purchase or download their work on their website.
Go to the artists' website. There you'll likely as not find a link or ten to Amazon or iTunes if they have a pressed-disc contract, or to direct downloads via http/ftp or torrents or some other free method if they're that way inclined to distribute their music. It's a model that works - just go to the Stereophonics website and download an album or two - and donate what you want! They made more off a single album this way than they ever did through a Big Five label with all their other material combined!
I refer to the Common Law definition of trespass, which is to gain entry by moving a barrier or forcing a barrier.
sorry, you are incorrect; it is trespass. That your property is on their land is incidental but may be a mitigation.
I think someone's reading comprehension is shot to hell. My situation play STARTED: Someone is in my home uninvited, they are trespassers intent to do harm to those who are authorised to be in my home.
Try again.
if you have to move the gate to gain entry then it's trespass. If you are trespassing to recover your own property then it's still only trespass. The only burden on you is to prove a: that the gate was ajar if you are going the whole hog, and/or b: that the stolen property is yours. If you can do b to the criminal standard (produce receipts, photographs and/or insurance documents), then chances are that the trespass charge against you would be dropped anyway.
Assault is (basically) when I do something that would cause a reasonable person to fear for their safety of body, and posess the means to carry through with it. Basically -- it's when I draw my fist back threatening to punch you, but not the actual punch itself -- although if I do punch you, you almost certainly reasonably fear for your safety.
Wrong. Common assault is the unwanted contact of any part of one person's body with any part of another person's body no matter how violent or incidental. Offences Against The Person Act 1861 and section 39 of the Criminal Justice Act 1988. I could swat a bit of dandruff off your shoulder or tap your elbow to get your attention. If you're having a bad day you could press charges for common assault and they would STICK. The second an incident of contact causes bruising or swelling or draws blood, then it's a battery and carries a separate charge. Pardon the pun, but the terminology is correct.
And half the idiots that toss the word assault around don't have the first clue what it actually is.
Well, guess what: there are some lawyers on here.
Also -- if you're an LP person, and you tackle me, in most states you're going to be fired on the spot, and the amublance chasers will be checking to see if your employer or yourself missed a single training course indicating never to do that... because they'll lose everything they have. If the employer screwed up -- I'm rich! If you screwed up, you're fired, and your wages garnished...forever.
For the record, "stealing" isn't a legal term I've ever seen codified in anything I've ever reviewed, going back to...'recent antiquity' -- but it might be out there somewher.
Try section 56 of the Offences Against The Person Act 1861: the heading is Child Stealing.
Hacking isn't the same thing as "assault, theft, or trespass"...yes, there's some progress at last ijn that reasoning. It's not needed though.
"Stealing" isn't the same thing as "mugging", "carjacking", "burgling", "robbery" or.... Any of the other crimes that get correlated with them such as battery, assault, breaking and entering, possession of burglar's tools, home invasion ...
Technically, it is. Stealing is the intentional deprivation of some material thing from someone. Carjacking, robbery, larceny, burgling: these are methods.
ok. If you force a gate to recover your illegally taken vehicle, you could be done for trespass, which would be mitigated by your intent to recover "your" property. I used quotes because you don't actually own that vehicle, the DVLA does (in the UK). When you register that vehicle, you get a form back (registration document) describing the vehicle, and describing you as the "RESIGTERED KEEPER". You do not own the vehicle, you just signed over title and ownership to a corporation; you are responsible for making sure it is kept roadworthy until such time as you fuck up enough to warrant agents (traffic enforcement officers) of the owners (the DVLA) to tow that vehicle with zero notice and stuff it through a compactor.
Back to topic: if you walk onto the property without having to force a gate (or even if there is no gate), then you cannot be done for trespass, even if there is signage denying public right of way. For a trespass claim to work there HAS TO BE a PHYSICAL barrier to entry.
breaking and entering v., n. entering a residence or other enclosed property through the slightest amount of force (even pushing open a door), without authorization. If there is intent to commit a crime (of any description beyond the actual entry), this is burglary. If there is no such intent, the breaking and entering alone is common trespass.
I stopped a police officer cold on this. Told him he had three seconds to get the fuck out of my kitchen (I had just come in from work and found him there talking to my wife who was clearly unhappy) or I would treat him as a trespasser. He only had to look at the 5D maglite hanging off my belt to know what that meant - and he didn't have a fucking leg to stand on. I am Master and Law in my own home, and he didn't have a warrant. Bye bye, titfuck.
when seconds count, the police are only minutes away.
Someone is in my home uninvited, they are trespassers intent to do harm to those who are authorised to be in my home. I will use whatever means at my disposal to stop that individual.
He left his rights at the threshold.
This takes me back. Back about oh, six years ago when I read this exact same story on another forum. WORD FOR FUCKING WORD.
Blockbuster know this. This is why Blockbuster are selling up. That said, Domino's Pizza are offering free movie rentals with pizzas now - maybe move to pizza delivery?