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From: utoddl@ecsvax.uncecs.edu (Todd M. Lewis)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Possible Fines for Virus Perpetrator
Summary: Someone's been sleeping in MY car!
Keywords: Morris, virus, internet
Message-ID: <5852@ecsvax.uncecs.edu>
Date: 16 Nov 88 15:56:46 GMT
References: <456@l5comp.UUCP> <440@occrsh.ATT.COM> <312@pte.UUCP> <98@usl-pc.usl.edu>
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In article <98@usl-pc.usl.edu>, jpdres10@usl-pc.usl.edu (Green Eric Lee) writes:
> In article <312@pte.UUCP> car@pte.UUCP (Chris Rende) writes:
> >If you left your car door unlocked in a parking lot, how would you like to
> >find someone sleeping in it. That's <relatively non-destructive> right?
> 
> As for your analogy: if I found someone sleeping in my car, I would
> understandably be quite irritated, and would demand that he remove
> himself immediately.  However, unless he decided not to do so, and
> thus deprived me of use of my automobile (at least until the police
> arrived), I see no use for prosecuting him.

If, however, people at shopping malls routinely left their cars
unlocked with little or no ill effect, knowing that it was a bad 
idea, and then one day found one or more vagrants sleeping in
nearly every car in the lot, the shopping community might decide
to start locking its collective doors!
   "Gosh!  I knew they could, but I would never have believed
    they actually would..."
--Todd