[texbirds] Re: texbirds
- From: David Sarkozi <david@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: Susan Gayle <suz123_@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2014 07:40:55 -0500
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 6:44 AM, Susan Gayle <suz123_@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> My last email was 4/8/14, is there a server glitch or am I supposed to
> register again? I haven't changed any settings that I am aware of to
> suddenly not receive the Texbird emails. Please help me get back in loop.
>
> Best regards,
> Susan Gayle
> E-Mail: suz123_@xxxxxxxxxxx
> not a space after 3, an underscore!
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>
>
>> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2014 11:21:13 -0500
>> Subject: [texbirds] Re: Spring Migration and Paranoia
>> From: david@xxxxxxxxxxx
>> To: c.o.carver@xxxxxxxxx
>> CC: leasbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>>
>> Cameron,
>>
>> While I agree you weren't doing anything wrong, you are setting
>> yourself up for suspicion of breaking two Texas laws, Disorderly
>> Conduct and Improper Photography.
>>
>> Disorderly Conduct is the Texas law that a peeping tom falls under.
>> "(11) for a lewd or unlawful purpose: (A) enters on the property of
>> another and looks into a dwelling on the property through any window
>> or other opening in the dwelling;" While walking down the street you
>> haven't entered the property another, and even if you were looking
>> into bedroom windows you haven't broken the law all you need is one
>> person to say you were in the yard looking into the house and you'll
>> be screwed.
>>
>> Improper Photography doesn't require that you enter the property, and
>> haven't we all had your optics referred to as a camera at some point?
>> All you need is someone to say you're taking pictures through windows
>> and you'll get a response.
>>
>> If someone calls the police on you and uses just a little
>> exaggeration, you're going to get investigated, Get someone to call
>> you in on a quit Sunday morning you'll get 3 officers to response just
>> because they are bored.
>>
>> I was a police dispatcher for 25 years. If I got a call of someone
>> walking down the street looking into yards with binoculars I would
>> have assumed it was a birders, but I certainly would have sent a unit,
>> Add in any claim that you had a camera or had entered a yard and it
>> gets worse.
>>
>> I think the chance of getting charged with disorderly conduct is very
>> high when you bird a neighborhood that you don't live in, I just don't
>> think its worth the risk personally. Add to it the fact that Texas law
>> favors the person on their homestead who uses deadly forced and its
>> much more than the risk of a citation for disorderly conduct.
>>
>>
>> Sec. 21.15. IMPROPER PHOTOGRAPHY OR VISUAL RECORDING. (a) In this
>> section, "promote" has the meaning assigned by Section 43.21.
>>
>> (b) A person commits an offense if the person:
>>
>> (1) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records,
>> broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of another at a location that
>> is not a bathroom or private dressing room:
>>
>> (A) without the other person's consent; and
>>
>> (B) with intent to arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person;
>>
>> (2) photographs or by videotape or other electronic means records,
>> broadcasts, or transmits a visual image of another at a location that
>> is a bathroom or private dressing room:
>>
>> (A) without the other person's consent; and
>>
>> (B) with intent to:
>>
>> (i) invade the privacy of the other person; or
>>
>> (ii) arouse or gratify the sexual desire of any person;
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 6, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Cameron Carver <c.o.carver@xxxxxxxxx>
>> wrote:
>>
>> > Soon, not one. Not TWO. BUT THREE police cars arrived on the scene. They
>> > asked the man (still in his truck) why he was following me while another
>> > officer made small talk with me. Paranoid, delusional man drove off and
>> > all
>> > three officers chatted with me. As I explained to the faux-Zimmerman, I
>> > was
>> > doing nothing wrong. However, the officers encouraged me not to provoke
>> > people by birding neighborhoods. They also said that this man wanted and
>> > was fully intending to beat me up. I can understand that from their
>> > perspective this is a hassle. BUT I have every right to be at this
>> > location
>> > and I will continue to bird this location as it has great potential. I
>> > will, however, likely bird THAT neighborhood with a birding buddy from
>> > now
>> > on. Safety in numbers.
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