Re: Circuitously Related

[Jim Davis <alarminex@xxxxxxx>]

On Tuesday, August 4, 2020 at 10:04:30 AM UTC-4, Bob La Londe wrote:

>  >
>  > That is very nasty!!
>  >
>  > I have added my time spent to either a change order
>  > or a future service call to offset the extra time
>  > spent if I couldn't get those that screwed up my work
>  > make it right.
>  >
>  > I may have consider or dreamed about your method
>  > but would never have gone that far.
>  >
>  > I assume that the Statute of Limitations have expired??
>  >
>  > Lee
>
>
> Back in the late 1980s I ran a trap line while I was in transition
> between working for the phone company and going back to college.  The
> hardest I ever worked in my life, and perhaps the one job I loved more
> than any other.
>
> A few years ago one of my farmer buddies found out I used to run traps,
> and asked me about doing some paid control work on the farms they own
> and some of the land they lease.  I figured I could run a short line or
> three in just an hour or two in the morning to help him out and get paid
> to do something I used to enjoy doing.
>
> In the effort to always be a legal and ethical outdoors person I called
> the region supervisor for Arizona Game & Fish to get up to date on the
> regulations.  Much has changed.  We sat in the back of their big
> conference hall while they state commission was doing some sentencing
> via teleconference of a guy who had done some unethical harvesting.
> During our conversation we discussed many things about trapping.  At one
> point we mentioned rabbits that are just hopping along winding their own
> business and step in a trap.  As it turns out its illegal to trap
> rabbits and if you trap one by accident you have to let it go.  I did
> not know that and it didn't make any sense to me anyway.  A rabbit with
> one bad foot isn't going to live out the day anyway.  A coyote will eat
> it for sure, and even a kit fox could take down an injured cotton tail.
> I laughed and said, "Well I'm sure the glad the statute of limitations
> has expired by now, because," and that's when he held up his hand and
> stopped me.
>
> "Be careful what you say Bob.  The statute of limitations doesn't start
> when an act is committed.  It starts when it has been discovered that an
> act has been committed."
>
> Now I don't know if that is accurate exactly how it was said.  I haven't
> gone to the local law library and read up on it, but there have been
> some court cases on that subject, and I have run across a couple
> references that seem to indicate its mostly true.
>
> If it was just discovered today that a crime had been committed...


OH YEAH!

WELL LET THEM COME.

THEY'LL NEVER TAKE ME ALIVE  ! ! !

Anyway. My Mommy always said I was a nice person.