by Tweeg » Sun Jul 19, '09, 4:38 am
I was about to say, if the students are having to pay a fee to rent these rooms then they're technically qualified as rental property, which makes the university a land lord. And that being the case, would make this rule/policy/whatever an illegal invasion of privacy punishable under law as breaking and entering. So anyone actually entering a room without the student/rentors permission will be subject to felony break-in and trespassing charges. And who doesn't own a gun these days? What with home invasions becoming a common occurance its good sense to have one handy.
And bombs? That's a grey area sadly. Three teenagers here locally were just arrested yesterday (or Thursday?) on "bomb charges" because they threw commercially available fireworks, that they had leftover from the 4th of July, into a neighbors yard and caused burn damage to said neighbors lawn and vinyl siding on the house. Don't get me wrong, they should receive some manner of punishment for being irresponsible and pay repartitions to the neighbour for the damges, but to throw them in jail with bomb charges?!