Dining Out

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Dave Smith said:

limey said:

That's the way I raised my kids - if we went out for a treat and they acted
up, I gathered them up and home we went. That message got through very
quickly and they were always well behaved in public. Thank G*d.

I keep hearing people say they do that, but I have never seen it happen.

Perhaps that's because it doesn't happen very often? It doesn't take
but one or two times and the kids get the message and just don't
misbehave anymore. Once you've done this and proved that you will, just
the mention of it will get them to behave.

Also, most parents can see it coming. Those who are responsible will
take this action well before the kids get obnoxious enough to seriously
bother other people.

We've done this several times. If the other people in the restaurant
never noticed it because we nipped it in the bud, well, isn't that the
point?

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Dan Abel
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Petaluma, California, USA

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> When's your court date, BTW. "-)

Hasn't happened yet.

Here's that tale...

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Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date...
You being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?

That was SWMBO's concern which forced a trip to my lawyer. Nothing's
come of it yet.

The Ranger

Well *I* think you should file a counter suit if it happens. Just think of
all the mental anguish you have suffered by going out the door every
morning and finding your tree striped naked 😉

Michael

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> When's your court date, BTW. "-)

Hasn't happened yet.

Here's that tale...

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Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date...
You being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?

That was SWMBO's concern which forced a trip to my lawyer. Nothing's
come of it yet.

The Ranger

Well *I* think you should file a counter suit if it happens. Just think of
all the mental anguish you have suffered by going out the door every
morning and finding your tree striped naked 😉

Michael

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limey said:

Believe me, I didn't *say* I did it - I *did* it, whether it was a
restaurant, an ice cream parlor, toy store, whatever. The lesson didn't
take long to learn. It's a question of who's in charge - the parent, or
the child?
Nuff said.

Good for you. I am not calling you a liar. It's just that I hear so many people
say they would do it, but I have never seen it done. When I was working I used
to spend a lot more time in restaurants. I was on the road all day, so I had two
coffee breaks and either lunch or supper in a restaurant. I saw a lot of badly
behave kids, and I heard a lot of threats from parents, but I never saw them
actually carry out the threat.

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

I once stopped at a lovely, heavily laden grapefruit tree in someone's
yard in Arizona. I went to the front door, knocked, and asked if I could
purchase a few fresh grapefruit from them. I'd pick them.

He said I could have a few for free and thank you for being polite
enough to ask.....

It galls me what nerve people have sometimes, just tresspassing and
taking what they want like they are entitled to it!

I have to confess to having stolen fruit. There is a 50 acres field across the road
from our house and for a while there was about an acre of sour cherries in the
front corner of it. The property had been bought by an elderly couple who planned
to build on it but the wife died. The man used to spray them once or twice early in
the season, and then they were neglected and never harvested. Once a year I would
come home from work, make a batch of pie pastry and stick it in the fridge to cool.
Then I would scoot across the road and grab enough fresh cherries to make a pie. It
was known as the Stolen Cherry Pie, and it was always the best pie of the year.

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Terry Pulliam Burd said:

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 07:42:13 -0800, "The Ranger"
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<snip hilarious story>

Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date...
You being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?

That was SWMBO's concern which forced a trip to my lawyer. Nothing's
come of it yet.

She was clearly trespassing, but some jurisdictions might interpret
your water bomb as assault. Personally, I think there ought to be some
sort legal free pass for combating complete jackassery.

Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd

Especially since what he did was harmless.
Just embarassing. <giggles>

Heaven knows she had it coming!

Here in Texas, she could have been shot.

Legally.
--
Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Dave Smith said:

OmManiPadmeOmelet said:

I once stopped at a lovely, heavily laden grapefruit tree in someone's
yard in Arizona. I went to the front door, knocked, and asked if I could
purchase a few fresh grapefruit from them. I'd pick them.

He said I could have a few for free and thank you for being polite
enough to ask.....

It galls me what nerve people have sometimes, just tresspassing and
taking what they want like they are entitled to it!

I have to confess to having stolen fruit. There is a 50 acres field across
the road
from our house and for a while there was about an acre of sour cherries in
the
front corner of it. The property had been bought by an elderly couple who
planned
to build on it but the wife died. The man used to spray them once or twice
early in
the season, and then they were neglected and never harvested. Once a year I
would
come home from work, make a batch of pie pastry and stick it in the fridge to
cool.
Then I would scoot across the road and grab enough fresh cherries to make a
pie. It
was known as the Stolen Cherry Pie, and it was always the best pie of the
year.

I have too... but only if it was obvious that it was going to waste.
We snitched some dead ripe persimmons off of the ground.

But only after stopping by and offering to pay for some and being
(nastily) turned down.

A year later, he cut the two trees down. :-(
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Om.

"My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-[censored]." -Jack Nicholson

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Michael \'Dog3\' Lonergan said:

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> Melba's Jammin' <[email hidden]> wondered in
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>> When's your court date, BTW. "-)
>
> Hasn't happened yet.
>
> Here's that tale...

<snip hilarious story>

Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date... You
being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?

If the cheeky thing DID try to sue him, she'd be laughed outta the
courthouse! Bravo, Ranger, bravo!

TammyM, still chortling

He can countersue for trespassing, theft and property damage. Damage
to the tree. ;-)

Granted, he could be cited for "assault", but I think her fine would
be much, much worse!

Unless of course he was looking for a winner for the neighborhood wet t-
shirt contest 😉

Michael

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Unless of course he was looking for a winner for the
neighborhood wet t-shirt contest 😉

<full body shudder>

Ew! Ew! Ew! There's a visual that's going to cause a nightmare or two!

The Ranger

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Unless of course he was looking for a winner for the
neighborhood wet t-shirt contest 😉

<full body shudder>

Ew! Ew! Ew! There's a visual that's going to cause a nightmare or two!

The Ranger

LOLOL... Sorry 😉

Michael

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On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 09:39:26 -0800, sf <[email hidden]>

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LurfysMa said:

On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 16:35:44 GMT, [email hidden] (TammyM) wrote:

>Here's another thought about o'er hanging branches. My neighbors
to
>the north (backyard) planted a nectarine tree too close to the
fence
>line. About 1/3 of the branches hang over the fence. I have to
clean
>up the rotted fruit that drops into my yard and the leaves that
drop
>in autumn. I feel just fine about availing myself of the fruit
that's
>on my side of the fence. I know, I know, if I were a decent human
>being, I'd give it to them. But I'm not and I don't :-) It
probably
>bears mentioning that we have had "words" a few times in the ten
years
>I've owned this house, and neither household is likely to invite
the
>other to any birthday parties any time soon.

Around here, I'm pretty sure that anything that hangs over (or
grows)
onto your property is yours. I think there was something in the
paper
recently. If I recall correctly, you are within your rights to
demand
that they trim it to the property line and/or do it yourself. Not
sure
if you can then toss the trimmings back over the fence.

Around here, you can be sued for cutting a tree or bush to your
property line and the party that does the suing will win their case.

In Australia the law says that if it hangs over onto your legal
property then you can do what you like with it - you can chainsaw it
off at the fenceline if you like... what you can't do is to go as much
as half-an-inch over the border, or to walk into your neighbour's yard
to do the cutting because that's trespass and theft. I think that's
fair enough... except our neighbours really annoyed us by overpruning
one of our trees - every time they saw so much as a leaf over the
fence they'd lean over and cut the branch off and eventually the poor
shrub fell over and died! Those same neighbours also sawed an entire
limb off one of our gum trees because if there was a force ten gale it
might possibly blow down over their driveway and scratch their
precious SUV - only it wasn't even on their property at all. Like I
said, they annoyed us...

If there's fruit growing on your side of the fence it's yours too...
and I think that's fair enough - if you don't want the fruit falling
in your yard cut it off at the fenceline.

One year somebody snuck into our backyard at the dead of night and
totally stripped our large plum tree. Normally we leave the fruit for
the birds because we don't really like it (it's a satsuma and the
fruit tends to be very dry and hard and only good for cooking)... so I
guess they thought we were 'wasting' it! When we went to bed the tree
was full of fruit, and in the morning it was totally bare. The nerve
of some people...

In UK you can cut off any branches that overhang your property, but you
must give them back to the owner

Wayne Boatwright said:

I'm not sure
what you call them, but there used to be a sort of firecracker that was a
small ball, smaller than a gumball, that when stepped or stomped on would
emit a tiny explosion. I bought a whole box of them and scattered them
across the path she usually took. That was her last trip across the yard.

There are now Pop-Its. But what you describe were called cherry bombs
when/where I was a kid.

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-denny-
"Do your thoughts call ahead or do they just arrive at your mouth unannounced?"

"It's come as you are, baby."

-over the hedge

On Mon 14 Nov 2005 04:20:09a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Denny
Wheeler?

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Wayne Boatwright said:

I'm not sure
what you call them, but there used to be a sort of firecracker that was
a small ball, smaller than a gumball, that when stepped or stomped on
would emit a tiny explosion. I bought a whole box of them and scattered
them across the path she usually took. That was her last trip across
the yard.

There are now Pop-Its. But what you describe were called cherry bombs
when/where I was a kid.

The cherry bombs I knew as a kid were larger, about the diameter of a
nickel, and had a fuse to light. They were powerful enough to blow up a
toilet (some kids in my highschool did that). Might be a regional thing.

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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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A chicken in every pot is a *LOT* of chicken!

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> When's your court date, BTW. "-)

Hasn't happened yet.

Here's that tale...

<snip hilarious story>

Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date...
You being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?

That was SWMBO's concern which forced a trip to my lawyer. Nothing's
come of it yet.

The Ranger

Can I ask...what is SWMBO??? Thanks...Sharon

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That was SWMBO's concern [..]

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Can I ask...what is SWMBO???

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That was SWMBO's concern

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Can I ask...what is SWMBO??? Thanks...Sharon

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> When's your court date, BTW. "-)

Hasn't happened yet.

Here's that tale...

<snip hilarious story>

Funniest thing I've read this week. Now, about the court date...
You being sued by the picker thief that you watered down?

That was SWMBO's concern which forced a trip to my lawyer. Nothing's
come of it yet.

The Ranger

In my view you were stopping a theft of your property. This was done
with the minimum amount of force necessary to stop the crime of theft
and criminal damage to your property.

Pan Ohco

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LurfysMa said:

(TammyM) said:

Here's another thought about o'er hanging branches. My neighbors to
the north (backyard) planted a nectarine tree too close to the fence
line. About 1/3 of the branches hang over the fence. I have to clean
up the rotted fruit that drops into my yard and the leaves that drop
in autumn. I feel just fine about availing myself of the fruit that's
on my side of the fence. I know, I know, if I were a decent human
being, I'd give it to them. But I'm not and I don't :-) It probably
bears mentioning that we have had "words" a few times in the ten years
I've owned this house, and neither household is likely to invite the
other to any birthday parties any time soon.

Around here, I'm pretty sure that anything that hangs over (or grows)
onto your property is yours. I think there was something in the paper
recently. If I recall correctly, you are within your rights to demand
that they trim it to the property line and/or do it yourself. Not sure
if you can then toss the trimmings back over the fence.

Around here, you can be sued for cutting a tree or bush to your
property line and the party that does the suing will win their case.

Here, the part of the plant on your side of the line is yours to do with as
you will- but re: Shylock, if you damage the plant on other side in your
efforts done on your side, you pay.

Karen AKA Kajikit said:

One year somebody snuck into our backyard at the dead of night and
totally stripped our large plum tree. Normally we leave the fruit for
the birds because we don't really like it (it's a satsuma and the
fruit tends to be very dry and hard and only good for cooking)... so I
guess they thought we were 'wasting' it! When we went to bed the tree
was full of fruit, and in the morning it was totally bare. The nerve
of some people...

At one place that I lived I had planted 3 santa rosa plum trees.
One day I came home from work and found that some kids had stripped
most of the plums from the tree. I think they were kids or small
adults, because every thing below six feet were gone. The plums above
six feet were delicious.

Pan Ohco

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good grief... learn how to use a news reader

SF - who are you saying this to, and, about what? You see, there is no
quoted material in your post. News reader problems, perhaps? <Giggle!>

',;~}~

Cheers, and no offence meant - it just tickled me!

Shaun aRe