begin quoting MattyJ as of Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 10:57:00PM -0700: > >My what a can of worms I opened on this one. I have to jump back in here > >and say that if my neighbor produced so little trash that it would > >easily fit in my unused can space, I would have absolutely no problem > >with him putting it there with or without my knowledge or permission! If > >I'm walking down the street drinking a soda and I finish it, I will drop > >it into the next person's can that I see, is that stealing? > > That's not stealing at all. I purposely tried to frame it in the context > of somenone taking advantage of a situation to get something for free. My > hypothetical neighbor is trying to get something for free by not paying > for garbage collection, and if you want to subsidize that, then I guess > that's your right to foot his garbage collection bill.
The problem is that the trespass issue screws it up. If person A goes on person B's property to fill up the trashcan before person B can, there's a trespass issue, and that deviates from the wifi situation. If person A waits until person B's trashcan is on the curb, then there's no harm, no foul, no problem -- but that doesn't quite match the situation either. If person B puts their trashcan on person A's property, and person A fills up the trashcan before person B can do so, you get something a lot closer (but still not a very good match). > If you put your soda can in there, then went home and put all your own > trash in there, then continued to do that week after week, then stopped > paying your own municipal fees, then yes, that's stealing. I don't pay a separate fee for trash collection. Your analogy had a different sort of impact than what you probably intended.... -- See some trash, must now smash! Stomp it down, avoid the brown! Stewart Stremler -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
