[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[Dirk Munk]

Bill Gunshannon wrote:
> In article <Wregn2WJMXKz at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>> In article <nospam-09AF6C.16461925102012 at news.chingola.ch>, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> writes:
>>>
>>> Is it because you remember clearing all that snow that you don't like a
>>> long drive then?  Or the lack of privacy?
>>
>>     "privacy" is a great thing to have when you're breaking into somone
>>     else's property.
>>
>>     Not on mine, thanks.
>>
>>     It's not that I don't like a long drive, but I consider it a cost
>>     to be offset if I'm bidding on the house.
>>
>>>
>>> In my early teens we moved into a house with large picture windows and
>>> had to get used to folks staring in.  We got good at out-staring them
>>> but it wasn't until the hedge matured that we could get any privacy.
>>
>>     Why didn't you close the drapes?
>>
>>     To reduce crime, folks need to be able to see the house, not see
>>     into the house.
>>
>
> Everybody can see everybody else's house here in the city where I currently
> live.  Hasn't prevented breakins.  In fact, they are on the rise.  Biggest
> difference in that respect between my current two houses is I can't use a
> gun here.
>

That's good. Just think of the guy who shot his 15yr old son a couple of 
weeks ago, because he thought the boy was a burglar. Life must be hell 
for him now, waking up every morning in the knowledge that he killed his 
own son.

> bill
>