[Info-vax] Completely OT: Frank Lloyd Wright

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <733ad$5089cd9c$5ed43c14$22872 at cache60.multikabel.net>,
	Dirk Munk <munk at home.nl> writes:
> 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.

Except for the fact that he was a burglar.


bill


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