ORIGINAL: Jack Ryan
I've never read your book either but I've heard that quote from the Tresspasser's Bible many times.
Heard it from yellow root theives, poachers, mushroom hunters and ginseng theives. Heard it from timber thieves and PETAr heads too.
I think my character was just assaulted by association!? How (not very) interesting!
Has anyone here ever just gone for a walk in the woods? With no agenda but to be there and see what is there?
I'm not making an excuse for tresspassing, which is by definition for our purposes here the act of wrongfully entering the property of another. I'm just saying that if no other transgretion has occured, then perhaps we don't need to jump to the worst of conclusions.
If someone doesn't want people on his land, he posts it, and the majority of us law abiding folks will obey his wishes and stay off.
While on my walks that I often take, I have come accross property that has been posted ILLegally by people who do NOT own it. You can usually tell by the manner in which it is done. In several of these cases, I DID locate the property owner and notify them of the posting or of the problem with the manner in which they have done it.
And are they root thieves that are yellow themselves, or are they thieves of yellow roots?