XPost: alt.agnosticism, alt.atheism, alt.talk.creationism   
   XPost: sci.skeptic   
   From: sylvia@not.at.this.address   
      
   On 20/11/2014 9:28 PM, Alex W. wrote:   
   > On 19/11/2014 00:10, Sylvia Else wrote:   
   >> On 19/11/2014 5:23 AM, Bob Casanova wrote:   
   >>> On Tue, 18 Nov 2014 07:53:28 +1300, the following appeared   
   >>> in sci.skeptic, posted by george152 :   
   >>>   
   >>>> On 17/11/14 15:54, mur.@.not. wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>>>       If you attempt to answer, try to support whatever you happen   
   >>>>> to suggest.   
   >>>   
   >>>> Bored drunken farm workers   
   >>>   
   >>> Or, as is well-documented, pranksters.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> A.k.a. criminals, who by their actions reduce a farmer's income.   
   >>   
   >> Sylvia.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >   
   > Only if this is done without the farmer's permission, and if the farmer   
   > does not profit from tourists.   
      
   I concede (of course) that if the farmer gave permission, then there's   
   no criminality. Absent permission, it's still a criminal act, even if,   
   in the event, the farmer is savvy enough to obtain alternative   
   compensating income as a consequence.   
      
   >   
   > After all, farmers do frequently cut patterns, logos and even whole   
   > mazes into their fields.  As a practising uncle, I find it delightful to   
   > send my nephews into a maize maze ....   
   >   
      
   Cutting patterns is the crop owner's choice, no one else's.   
      
   Sylvia.   
      
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