Posted by Spartanicus on 12/25/36 11:34

Toby Inkster <usenet200512@tobyinkster.co.uk> wrote:

>> Or maybe a better analogy - shop sells beer with the promotion: buy 5,
>> get the 6th free. Do you plead 'not guilty' when they bust you for
>> only taking the 6th, because it is free?
>
>Better analogy: I'm giving out free hobnobs to anyone who visits me at
>home; you give people my address and say "free hobnobs here" and suddenly
>everyone's turning and taking my hobnobs. Are you stealing hobnobs from
>me?

Two newly build shops on bordering plots, both shops are 100M from the
road with no paving from the shops to the road. Shop owner A pays for
paving to the road, shop owner B decides to lay 5M of paving directly in
front of his shop, his customers then come to his store over 95M of
paving laid by shop owner A, then hop over to shop B.

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Spartanicus

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