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Police Take Notice

Ambiguous coda to "No Trespassing" signs - is it a warning (i.e., the police're gonna getcha) or a request (i.e., "please, Mr. Policeman, apprehend the miscreants on my lawn")? In fact, it's the latter. Massachusetts state law requires property owners to "post" their property to keep hunters off; so "Police Take Notice" is telling the police that the property is off limits and could they please do something about all those people with rifles or whatever.

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Tania Sousa dos santos on January 23, 2004 05:02 PM.

thats wicked screwed up.

BONE on September 12, 2004 10:11 PM.

Once, I was loitering around a business parking lot, when I saw a sign announcing "Police Take Notice." I ran away like I'd never run before, I was frickin' scared.

Mark Edward Manning on December 10, 2004 10:20 AM.

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