Comments on: Snow Day Rules http://www.kemplog.com/2005/12/15/snow-day-rules/ Life and law in Eastern Indiana Wed, 07 Jan 2009 00:09:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Chris Hardie http://www.kemplog.com/2005/12/15/snow-day-rules/#comment-137 Chris Hardie Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-137 Thomas - I'm going to throw a snowball at you as you leave your office today. Do you consent? Also, can't part (a) be read in a way that the clause about "nor injure or frighten any bird or birds within the city" is an imperative indepdendent from the rest of the wording about stones and snowballs? If so, this could have all sorts of zoning implications. :) Chris Thomas - I’m going to throw a snowball at you as you leave your office today. Do you consent?

Also, can’t part (a) be read in a way that the clause about “nor injure or frighten any bird or birds within the city” is an imperative indepdendent from the rest of the wording about stones and snowballs? If so, this could have all sorts of zoning implications. :)
Chris

]]> By: Thomas Kemp http://www.kemplog.com/2005/12/15/snow-day-rules/#comment-138 Thomas Kemp Wed, 31 Dec 1969 16:00:00 +0000 #comment-138 Yeah, I had the same thoughts when I read it. I think the intention is clearly to limit throwing stones to scare birds, but I think the clear meaning imparted by the sentence structure imposes a general responsibility to refrain from frightening birds. We could probably spend some time debating this though, as well as the thorny issue of whether birds have the capacity to feel a human emotion like "fright." I assume that just walking out my back door I impose a fair amount of fear on the birds in the back yard. Yeah, I had the same thoughts when I read it. I think the intention is clearly to limit throwing stones to scare birds, but I think the clear meaning imparted by the sentence structure imposes a general responsibility to refrain from frightening birds.

We could probably spend some time debating this though, as well as the thorny issue of whether birds have the capacity to feel a human emotion like “fright.”

I assume that just walking out my back door I impose a fair amount of fear on the birds in the back yard.

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