Can I Force You to Stop Breathing if I Own the Air around You?
@mythociate (21432)
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
November 9, 2012 9:02am CST
... obsessing over stupid 'private property'-law enforcement ... having been killed (dead for 7 minutes, emerging through a coma, rehabilitating from total paralysis), I now own the world---okay ... CO-own, with all the other dead; letting people-take stewardship of parts of it and -treat those parts as if they 'own' them.
As I walk down an open sidewalk (on private-school property, but not within any fenced-area), a cop stops me and tells me it's private-property and I need to stay off because 'there's a sign.'
I feel like I need a sign that says "I Own the Air You Breathe." Now, how many people--when they see that--are going to think "What? I don't own this air?" stop breathing, and die?
Probably not you, if you respond to tell me how 'private property'-law applies here.
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@holyangels (121)
• United States
9 Nov 12
Okay one thing I learn from my husband whose side job is doing house inspection is not to ever come across property with a sign like "No Trespassing". It appears to me that they CAN (if they wanted to) sue you against walking to their private property. We have no choice but just to follow that.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Nov 12
But it's not like I was walking THROUGH their property (like I did today BTW, where a few of the owners told me to 'have a good day' 
) when I was stopped on the SIDE of their property.
And I wasn't in some space between the buildings or on some grassy knoll, I was on the SIDEWALK. I bet they're called 'sidewalks' because they're the "side" of the property where non-owners may "walk."
And besides, I probably OWN that place as much as any of the students there shall (as my mom worked there a long time ago, my dad got his Law degree there, and I went there for six years)!
Unfortunately, I am "slow to anger" (like G-d? not quite, as I'm mostly just 'slow' 
) so I couldn't serve-up a dish of righteous indignation 
) when I was stopped on the SIDE of their property.
And I wasn't in some space between the buildings or on some grassy knoll, I was on the SIDEWALK. I bet they're called 'sidewalks' because they're the "side" of the property where non-owners may "walk."
And besides, I probably OWN that place as much as any of the students there shall (as my mom worked there a long time ago, my dad got his Law degree there, and I went there for six years)!
Unfortunately, I am "slow to anger" (like G-d? not quite, as I'm mostly just 'slow' ) so I couldn't serve-up a dish of righteous indignation @holyangels (121)
• United States
9 Nov 12
A sidewalk is a government property, a public access. You could have asked the cop as to why you are restricted to walk to that path ( you have the right to know and as far as you aren't breaking any law). The cop might have been doing this for security reason that you never know.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Nov 12
I think it was a cop the school had hired as security, so I let him 'run a check on me' anyway (call the station up, make sure there are no warrants outstanding on me).
@flowerchilde (12529)
• United States
9 Nov 12
I'm not sure about all that
but I have often thought if the government could tax the air we breathe, they surely would. And also if someone could bill us for the air we breathe, they surely would do that too.
but I have often thought if the government could tax the air we breathe, they surely would. And also if someone could bill us for the air we breathe, they surely would do that too. @mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Nov 12
Maybe that's something that upsets people in nursing-homes: if breathing-air is FREE to youngsters, why don't we PAY old people for 'having to use tanked air'?
@prashu228 (37524)
• India
9 Nov 12
how stupid is that, no one can ever stop us from breathing. What ever happened is so sad, but how can people behave like that, i mean if they own the property that doesn't mean that people should not be around.
@mythociate (21432)
• Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
9 Nov 12
Exactly! How do you tell if my path is someone else's path?
