From: mpd@netcom.com (Mike Duvos)
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 1996 20:39:01 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Re: Boobytraps and the American Legal System
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Lucky Green wrote:

 > Some people say that the lesson to be learned form such harsh 
 > legal realities is to kill burglars on sight. After all, dead 
 > people don't sue...

I remember some bus drivers in Mexico getting in trouble a number 
of years ago for their unwritten policy of running the bus back
over anyone they accidently hit.  

Similar legal reasoning was, I believe, involved in this case
as well.

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