—tim barton
from cyberspace 3/21/02
—Bozo
—tim barton
from cyberspace 3/26/02
The sort of romp through the justice system you are proposing will cost you several thousand bucks, no end of aggro, and lots of the kind of publicity only a KBPI disc jockey could love. And that's if you're found not guilty, which most people will either not hear about in the first place or promptly forget.
On the other hand, if you're found guilty, the sky's the limit for monetary cost, depending on how much physical damage you are unlucky enough to actually cause. You'll win a chance to wear an orange jumpsuit for an unspecified period of time and make some new friends, something your old friends, neighbors, and prospective employers will remember until the end of time.
On the plus side, you will receive your very own Dilly! award.
It works like this: Living in Boulderia and owning ...sorry... guardianing a dog are both completely voluntary activities. The responsibilities are yours. Other people's feelings about dogs and what that implies are not the issue. To get the benefits and protection of local law and custom you have to go along with local law and custom. There are wilder and woolier places you could go where your dog could roam freely all the time, and probably no one would complain. They'd just shoot your dog if he got into too much trouble. But if some jerk did that in Boulder, the folks you think of as such dog-haters would have his guts for garters.
So it's a free country. You're free to thumb your nose at local ordinances, but if you're doing it in public nobody's really obligated to look the other way, Murphy included. There's no right to piss in the public well.
They used to cover this in high school back in ancient times.
—Bozo
