Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Guns and borders

Weer'd wrote about the silliness of arbitrary borders making criminals of us.

I walk my dog at a public park next to a middle school in Boston.  To get to the park I have to walk an extra block so I don't cross the school parking lot and become a criminal.  The route has me walk adjacent to the school zone, my heater mere inches from crossing that imaginary line that determines my criminality.

I wonder, if I touch the school property with my toe, but every other part of me is on city property, am I committing a crime?  What if my whole foot is in the school zone?

What about the poor bastard who doesn't even realize it's a school parking lot?

2 comments:

  1. Wow! Not only are you afraid of imaginary lines, but your scared that a cop or anyone else is going to know about your "heater"?
    Seems like you have a few choices to make, walk your dog somewhere else? Maybe not pack your "heater"?

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  2. Anonymous,
    Not carrying would just be silly. Why would you even suggest that?

    It's not fear that I'm feeling. It's the indignity of it all.

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