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Subject:	Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
Newsgroups:	lugnet.off-topic.debate
Date:	Sat, 11 Oct 2003 17:09:07 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Bruce Schlickbernd wrote: > In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Larry Pieniazek wrote: > > http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1266165.html > > > > (just ran across this from somewhere else) > > > > "since Nagorka generally goes to work in the aisles without prior permission > > from store officials" > > > > Except for the above, note how the story doesn't really even mention the fact > > that this "artist" (scare quotes deliberate) is basically vandalising, defacing, > > stealing, disrupting operations and generally violating the rights of the Home > > Depots she visits. > > > > As an HD stockholder I'm annoyed that store management at the stores she > > violates isn't prosecuting her for the lost costs. > > > > Instead we get NPR puff pieces that glorify theft. > > > I fail to see where she steals anything in the store. She just rearranges the > stock into interesting, if ephemral, shapes. Which someone has to clean up. That's a theft of labor (the cleanup) as well as stealing use of the materials (the pieces are not available for sale while she's "using" them) as well as hinderance of trade (while she's "sculpting", it's harder to move around in the aisles near her) and trespass (she is not in the store for an approved purpose). (remember, conversion of stolen property doesn't have to be *permanent*. If you steal my car, take a joy ride, and then give it back, you've still stolen my car... even if you topped off the gastank before you returned it)

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		Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
(...) This seems to be your opinion more than the management of Home Depot, which seem to view it as a mild annoyance at the worst. (...) You are comparing a prosecutable crime with a non-crime. They are free to toss her from the store if they find (...) (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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		Re: Art? or Theft? or just signs that NPR is damaged.
(...) I fail to see where she steals anything in the store. She just rearranges the stock into interesting, if ephemral, shapes. Where's she appearing next? I'll even buy something in the store. :-) -->Everyone's an Art Critic<-- (21 years ago, 11-Oct-03, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)

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