ORIGINAL: brucelanthier
I would like to say that while someone walking into your house and someone walking on a corner of your 50 acre property are both trespassing (although one may be breaking and entering, at least in my state)they are not remotely near the same thing and some of these comparisons should remain in the realm of reasonable. Rediculous comparisons can actually take away from the reasonableness of an argument.
Bruce,
I wasn't talking about the facuet in the kitchen, I'm talking about the water hose on the outside of the house.
I used this example because a few years ago we had this very thing happen to my father-in-laws property in a very rual area of sothern Illinois. We were there for the weekend scouting the landwhen upon returning we spotted a guy drinking from the hose. We asked him what he was doing and he said he was out for a walk enjoying the day and was very thirsty. He seemed and looked like a very nice guy. We politely asked him to leave and that there was no trespassing on the property. (signs posted everywhere)
Later that week we found out that the very same guy was behind a string of break-ins and one assault on an elderly lady.