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#55163 08/19/05 04:23 PM
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The reality in the US is that the cops don't care about property crimes unless you steal billions and that is a recent thing.

They will spend hours in the bushes to catch someone 10 mph over the speed limit and someone smoking damn near anything these days will have the full weight of the government down on them but if you actually caught the guy stealing your fan the cops wouldn't do anything.


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#55164 08/19/05 04:31 PM
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Awhile ago some group, and I won't go poltical here, but they gave criminals rights.

And the criminals ended up getting more rights than me and you.


(restraining myself here)

The only positive thing a cop once told me was:
"you can't take fingerprints off a brick"


Hint, hint.....


Dnk...

#55165 08/19/05 07:03 PM
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...if you get caught stealing you get your hands taken away....

I smiled when I read this. I was in some small-town fleapit airport ( tin shed, dirt runway), in a certain middle-eastern country many years ago, when an artificial hand and wrist suddenly appeared on the little 'sliding box' conveyor going through the x-ray machine. It was just as if a grenade with its pin out had appeared. Everyone, the devout that is, (except Joe Muggins here), literally sprang off in all directions in a blind panic, including the soldiers! Turned out to be a practical joke by a bored guard, and I can't remember ever seeing so many people convulsed in laughter, before or since, once the joke sank in.
Then, I got bounced off my flight by some rich SOB, but I was still laughing!

Alan




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Maybe keep a few well armed helpers in the gang box and when someone opens it up to steal....

Claymores and tripwires..

or pit vipers.. or pit bulls..

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