Check this out - ingenious anti-bush biker arrested - no charges, no crime

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Jamie McCarthy <jamie () mccarthy vg>
To: dave () farber net
Cc: ip () v2 listbox com
Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 10:23:11 -0400
Subj: Re: [IP] Check this out - ingenious anti-bush biker arrested - no 
charges, no crime

Joshua Kinsberg has been released.  But his bike and invention are
impounded, at least until his court date on Friday (after the RNC
is over).

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5850151/?#040829e

NYC's anti-graffiti law is very strict:

http://www.nyc.gov/html/nograffiti/html/legislation.html

    "No person shall write, paint or draw any inscription, figure or
    mark of any type on any public or private building or other
    structure or any other real or personal property owned, operated
    or maintained by a public benefit corporation, the city of New
    York or any agency or instrumentality thereof or by any person,
    firm, or corporation, or any personal property maintained on a
    city street or other city-owned property pursuant to a
    franchise, concession or revocable consent granted by the city,
    unless the express permission of the owner or operator of the
    property has been obtained."

I wonder if the framers of that law realized they were banning kids
from chalking hopscotch onto their schools' playground or onto the
sidewalks in front of their houses.  I wonder how many children have
been arrested for chalking up a 4-square game.

One important point:  the police did not see the chalk-spraying
invention being _used_.  So the inventor probably could not have
been charged with the above law.  But the only other anti-graffiti
laws describe "aerosol spray paint cans," and the video of the
arrest clearly shows the inventor explaining to the police that it
uses chalk, not paint.  Predictably, the New York Post gets that
wrong, describing the invention as "a convoluted spray-paint
mechanism":  <http://www.nypost.com/news/regionalnews/29532.htm>
-- 
  Jamie McCarthy
 http://mccarthy.vg/
  jamie () mccarthy vg


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