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seven people with ties to the Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Singapore
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
1 - why is access to this reservoir criminal trespass ?
Originally posted by ignorant_ape
reply to post by angryjaimen
what puzzles me about this - is why were they trespassing ? most reservoiurs here [ UK ] are used for watersports [ only swimming , scuba diving etc is banned ] and fishing - many even have picnic areas / natture trails / footpaths etc
the only US reservoir i have any knowledge of [ lake meade ] has all the above
so :
1 - why is access to this reservoir criminal trespass ?
2 - if the intruders were ` upto no good ` - why not pick a soter target ?
The main problem i see with this article not because they were trespassing(heck they should get charged for this)is the way they related the students like they would relate a terrorist, ALL BECAUSE THEY WERE "DIFFERENT".
Originally posted by signalfire
How far away is this place from the Quincy suburb that has been having the low flying plane go over all night long for the last week or two?
And the OP didn't say they were students, but were graduates. There's a difference there. They were hardly out there on some assignment, and there's plenty of other places to take a hot date at midnight in Boston, I'm sure.
Originally posted by Malynn
*double facepalm*
It's good the police investigated of course. These people are not citizens and should abide by our laws while they are visiting. But come on...young Americans trespass all the time for a myriad of fun and or useless reasons. We used to trespass at our local park to skinny dip when I was a kid.
So why wouldn't the kids just say they were doing that? Last time I checked the Middle East was a little bit more hardcore about propriety than we are. I don't know what Middle Eastern punishments would be for pre-marital sex but I imagine it isn't a stern talking to.
If I was them and faced with the proposition of writing home to the parents to tell them I got in trouble I think I'd rather tell them I was busted for trespassing for academic/curiosity reasons as opposed to playing hide the pickle with my hot Pakistani girlfriend.
Regardless, it's not like they were busted while making a get-away with a chemical weapons truck.edit on 5/16/13 by Malynn because: (no reason given)