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From: ran@bentley.UUCP (RA Novo)
Newsgroups: net.auto,net.legal
Subject: Re: Protection of Car Stereos and crime
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Date: Mon, 22-Jul-85 10:43:12 EDT
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Posted: Mon Jul 22 10:43:12 1985
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All this talk about the protection of personal property with booby-
traps brings up a hypothetical situatuion and question.

Let's say that you approach your parked car in the street only to find
someone trying to forcibly break into it. You approach him as he is
smashing your windshield, but he just ignores you. What can you do?

It seems to me that you have two possible alternatives:

1) You can try to physically stop him using force. However, he can be
larger than you or armed, which can 
-- 

Robert A. Novo				"Captain! They put creatures
AT&T Bell Labs				 in our ears! They made us say
Piscataway, NJ                           things that weren't true!"
...bentley!ran