Andrew
You are quite right that there are many better analogies but I sought only to illustrate that the gun shop owner one was inappropriate. Nick -----Original Message----- From: buy movie posters <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thu, May 27, 2010 10:55 am Subject: Re: [MOPO] 3rd Party Grading Comes to Posters however you're beating this around the bush. a better example would be serving alcohol. in the united states a bar tender would be responsible if he continued to serve alcohol to someone who was clearly drunk and then they went out and killed a third party. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dram_shop irregardless if he knew what he was doing ultimately the restorer was aiding and abetting a criminal which certainly is punishable by law. regards, andrew -- [email protected] I would like to make one or two comments on the subject of gun shop owner analogy. I have no personal knowledge of the facts pertaining to this case nor do I know any of the players (save that, before I became aware of these proceedings, Jaimie Mendez carried out some restoration for me with which I was entirely satisfied). As a collector and enthusiast I am saddened that fellow collectors and others have suffered financial loss and that our hobby has been damaged by the events under discussion. I defer to the far superior knowledge of those who have posted to date but I do not find Jaimie being compared to a gun shop owner selling a weapon to a mass murderer to be a sensible or logical analogy. In a country in which the sale of weapons is legal, a gun shop owner should clearly not be responsible for the actions of his customers once they have purchased an item from the gun shop, any more than a car salesman should be responsible for selling a car, even if it were to a convicted drunk driver who then re-offends and causes the death of a pedestrian. However selling guns, or cars, is the day to day activity of the imaginary people we are talking about. 'Selling' the kind of 'copies' that it is widely reported that Jaimie made (for selling them is what he did in terms of this analogy) is not a day to day activity for a restorer. A better analogy would be to comapre him to the gunsmith in the Day of the Jackal who made the gun which could be concealed in a crutch. It is difficult to conceive that this gunsmith could be defended in the way that Jaimie is. Presumably that is why the Jackal did not visit an ordinary gun shop to have the weapon made! Nick Lykiardopulo Visit the MoPo Mailing List Web Site at www.filmfan.com ___________________________________________________________________ How to UNSUBSCRIBE from the MoPo Mailing List Send a message addressed to: [email protected] In the BODY of your message type: SIGNOFF MOPO-L The author of this message is solely responsible for its content.
