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		uncletaco on Dec 27, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: 6M Acres of Public Land in the US West Are Corner-... The problem is the courts haven't decided thus the sheriff is enforcing a law that doesn't exist, as per the complaint up the thread.

mwint on Dec 27, 2022 [–]

But trespassing laws do exist, as do airspace laws. I agree it’s an over-application of the law, but it’s not a law that doesn’t exist.

Like if I broke into Walmart and road a purple bike around while shooting stuff with a flamethrower, I don’t get to say “but no purple-bike-intrusion-arson-law exists”

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