Comments | ginmar: The absense of consent is not consent

ginmar

The absense of consent is not consent

Oct 21, 2010 17:12

The house next door is being renovated and I noticed contractors in my yard. Specifically, parked in my yard. I went out to check it out and found they were using my hose as a rope---after using my outside tap for their various needs. "We knocked," said the leader. "Nobody answered ( Read more... )

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idemandjustice October 21 2010, 23:52:40 UTC

So, are these contractors going to pay your water bill, since that costs money? Or are they comfortable just letting it be theft?

I live in Colorado, and I've been having nightmares about Ken Buck. I dreamed my sister was voting for him (she's really not), and that I was just ranting and raving at her, warning her that if she voted for him, she'd have buyer's remorse.

ginmar October 21 2010, 23:57:12 UTC

The guy on the phone was defensive from the get go, after I explained that I didn't want he or his workers taking my absence as license to do whatever they wanted. He told me to sue him---! He just went into my yard, helped himself, then denied he'd helped himself---and I caught the fucker red-handed!

idemandjustice October 22 2010, 00:00:06 UTC

You might want to actually try to sue him. I'm pretty sure it would be for small claims court. You'd want to check, but at least where I am, if you win the case you don't have to pay any of the court fees.

visp October 22 2010, 03:18:44 UTC

I love those "Why do judges get to decide these things?" arguments. They decide because that's their JOB! There are 3 branches of government, people, and the judicial branch decides things like when people are letting provincial small mindedness violate the constitution.

kellicat October 22 2010, 03:35:03 UTC

I also love how the candidate in the video fails to mention how civil rights for black people were decided in the courts, NOT by majority vote.

ginmar October 22 2010, 03:37:18 UTC

Yes, because rights exist even when other people want to deny them. Ah, the good old days, when white people doled out the rights. Oh, wait....!

kittenmommy October 24 2010, 01:29:21 UTC

The bullying gets ignored, but once the victim turns around and fights back, that gets noticed. Rules get remembered. Judgment gets passed. But not with the original act.

That was certainly my experience, yes.