[ExI] crowdsourced crimefighters

[William Flynn Wallace]

Let's see - you can kill an intruder, but if he falls and hurts himself he
can sue for damages if he trips over a book you left on the floor.   bill w

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 12:52 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

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> *From:* extropy-chat <extropy-chat-bounces at lists.extropy.org> *On Behalf
> Of *William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat
> *Sent:* Sunday, March 7, 2021 10:27 AM
> *To:* ExI chat list <extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org>
> *Cc:* William Flynn Wallace <foozler83 at gmail.com>
> *Subject:* Re: [ExI] crowdsourced crimefighters
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> The bad news is that
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> if she injures herself while re-stealing your used cat-con, you are liable
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> >…My understanding from a Torts class in 1965 that you are liable to a
> thief only if you boobytrap something.  Just a car sitting there won't do,
> I think, unless torts' laws have changed…
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> BillW, you live in a sane state.  I do not.
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> >…I think there is something fishy here.  Surely some sort of gadget
> could be welded on to prevent those thefts.  Trashing a whole car?
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> bill w
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> Sure you can buy those anti-theft kits and have them installed, but they
> do require a welder if they are the ones not easily defeated.  So again the
> beleaguered Prius driver must hire a shop.  If you have an anti-theft kit
> installed, the thief might vandalize your car for interfering with her
> otherwise thriving business.
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> A few years ago, there was a big theft wave on BMW nostrils: those two
> decorative pieces up front there with the trademark vertical bars.  Thieves
> figured out how to steal those without lifting the hood on some models with
> only very minor damage to the stolen part and the car.
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> BMW nostroils cost about 600 bucks each if a prole insists on genuine BMW
> parts.  Plastic aftermarket lookalikes were a lot cheaper but the seller
> was obligated to reveal if the car had those, which is why there were so
> many ads for selling a 540 with one or two aftermarket nostrils.  BMW does
> not condone aftermarket parts and considers the design their intellectual
> property, so they referred to them as counterfeit nostrils.
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> That was back in the days when stealing a 600 dollar part was still a
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> spike
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