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An interesting and monstrous miscarriage of justice certainly, but of no relevance to Trev who has a clear defence of necessity as he could reasonably be presumed to have intended to comply with the 96 hours requirement but, following a little mishap along the way, such compliance was outside his control (and he was not required to report a week ahead, or a month ahead, or when he set sail from Florida or at any other point on his voyage, merely to report no sooner than 96 hours before his arrival).

Looks like Kline's life insurance will soon be paying out

Do you believe it should just be for you or for everyone?

Right, so what you in fact meant to say was: Dirk and Jim ... both appear to agree the presence of Joel will help him over the rough times. There was no reference to the presence of Rachel, or what if any influence she might have on the situation, appearing in writing. Why? It is simple. Because the evil puppet master wanted to misdirect the reader to believe Rachel is Dead.

Firearm laws in Australia are enforced at a Federal and State level. Gun ownership is accessible only for those persons with 'genuine reasons' who can obtain a Permit to Acquire from local Police stations. 'Genuine Reasons' focus on primary production, licenced sport, animal control or employment requirements, and do not include 'personal protection.' In New South Wales (and similar in other States), firearm ownership is widely prohibited for convicted offenders. Gun ownership is low in metropolitan areas whose residents would generally not fulfill 'Genuine Reasons' requirements. Gun licences must be renewed frequently and expire automatically. Firearm controls have been in place following the 1996 Port Arthur Massacre. Gun ownership in Australia is not a wide social issue, and major political parties are generally supportive of pro-control legislation (Although parties such as the New South Wales Shooters Party, which represent pro-deregulation, have a small number of seats in State Parliaments). (http://en.wikipedia....ki/Gun_politics) More detailed info here: Gun politics in Australia (http://en.wikipedia....cs_in_Australia) Also: Firearms must be declared on entry. All military-type firearms (greater than .22), machine guns, pistols, revolvers, ammunition, as well as flick knives and knuckledusters are prohibited imports, and will be sealed on board or taken into custody at the first port of entry. Arrangements can be made to transport them to the port of departure if sufficient notice is given of that port and the date of departure. Sporting rifles and shotguns may be kept on board if a permit is obtained from the police. (http://www.cruisersf...untry-1641.html) And my favourite of the lot (I wonder why??? ) In Australia, state laws govern the possesion and use of firearms. They were mostly aligned under the 1996 National Agreement on Firearms. To possess or use a firearm, you must have a Firearms License and (usually) be over the age of 18. Owners must store firearms securely. Before one can buy a firearm, he/she must get a Permit To Acquire. There is a mandatory 28-day delay before it is issued. For each firearm a "Genuine Reason" must be given. Pest control, hunting, target shooting and collecting are valid reasons. Self-defense is not accepted as a reason for issuing a license, though it may be legal to use a firearm for that purpose under some circumstances. Each firearm must be registered to the owner by serial number. Firearms are divided into Categories: -Category A: Rimfire rifles (not semi-automatic), shotguns (not pump-action or semi-automatic), air rifles and paintball markers -Category B: Centrefire rifles (not semi-automatic), non-antique muzzleloading firearms -Category C: Semi-automatic rimfire rifles holding less than 10 rounds, pump-action or semi-automatic shotguns holding less than 5 rounds -Category H: Handguns, including air pistols, deactivated handguns and guns less than 65 cm long (target shooters are limited to .38 caliber or less) (barrels on semi-automatic handguns must be >4.72" long, >3.94" for revolvers) -Category R/E: restricted weapons, including but not limited to machine guns, flamethrowers, assault rifles, and anti-tank guns -Antique: single-shot muzzleloading firearms made before 1901, some antique revolvers and repeating firearms Category C and Category D firearms are more difficult to acquire. For Category C, you must be a primary producer, occupational shooter, collector, or clay target shooter. For category D, you must be an occupational shooter, though collectors can acquire deactivated Category D firearms. (http://www.zombiesurvivalwiki.com/page/Gun+Laws+by+Country) Sorry Benji, I should have said PRESUMED DEAD. Marty Now I'm really confused :wacko: You're saying Rachel is "presumed dead" by Dirk and Jim in their conversation with each other?

Marty and Benji have discussed this in the Brain Storming thread https://www.gayauthors.org/forums/topic/32356-brain-storming/page__st__25

But "The rule for conspiracy is a bit different" (see above), so if Dirk and Rachel jointly plotted their criminal enterprise then I hope they like prison food

No he won't - not when he's screaming for his life, strapped helplessly to a rusty old bed frame, as Basingstoke gently pushes sharp pointy things up his fingernails (or worse) More of The Goat's cruelty to his characters (see previous threads where he denied this with barefaced lies )

Hi Marty Not really. I was intrigued by such detailed and ongoing analysis so I just Googled some key words like "limitation" and "criminal" and looked at what came up. Nope, I don't have a problem because I don't have a view - whereas you've examined with an electron microscope the complex web of nefariousness woven by The Goat into his devious plot (and not counting The Goat's personal and brazen wrongdoings for which he has been rightly exposed in this forum ) I've simply been devouring a great story and enjoying the ride, with a few well-aimed snipes along the way when The Goat stumbles into the cross-hairs The CRS Report summarised the law as it had developed at that point. I'm no jurist but I would expect that the bulk of the law in the story timeline and as at today was well established (many of the sources referred to in the footnotes are quite old e.g. Black's Law Dictionary 6th ed. 1990, case law precedents etc). Law in this area (fraud, conspiracy and limitation) is not subject to frequent and radical change - developments in recent years will generally be to address specific problem areas such as anti-terrorism and child sex-abuse. To recap, all I said was "if the excited chatterings around such a plot development are correct then maybe some of the (links) will be relevant"

There's been much forum activity about the statute of limitation (and possible crimes Dirk and / or Rachel may have committed and / or conspired to commit, including possibly faking Rachel's death) and the belief Dirk / Rachel will be "free" after 16 Dec because any legal action will then be time-barred. I've not paid close attention to the forum postings on this aspect but if the excited chatterings around such a plot development are correct then maybe some of the following will be relevant: CRS Report for Congress - Statutes of Limitation in Federal Criminal Cases: An Overview - April 9, 2007(http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/misc/RL31253.pdf) "Prosecution for most ... federal crimes must begin within five years of the commitment of the offense. There are exceptions. Some types of crimes are subject to a longer period of limitation; some circumstances suspend or extend the otherwise applicable period of limitation ... ... certain crimes against financial institutions and various immigration offenses all carry statutes of limitation longer than the five year standard ... Ordinarily, the statute of limitations begins to run as soon as the crime has been completed. Although the federal crime of conspiracy is complete when one of the plotters commits an affirmative act in its name, the period for conspiracies begins with the last affirmative act committed in furtherance of the scheme. Other so-called continuing offenses include various possession crimes and some that impose continuing obligations to register or report." (Summary page) "Statutes of limitation “normally begin to run when the crime is complete” ... The rule for conspiracy is a bit different. The general conspiracy statute consists of two elements: (1) an agreement to commit a federal crime or to defraud the United States and (2) an overt act committed in furtherance of the agreement. Conspirators left unimpaired will frequently continue on through several overt acts to the ultimate commission of the underlying substantive offenses which are the objectives of their plots. Thus, the statute of limitations for such conspiracies runs not from the first overt act committed in furtherance of the conspiracy but from the last. The statute of limitations under conspiracy statutes which have no overt act requirement runs from the accomplishment of the objectives of the conspiracy or from its abandonment. Concealment of the criminal plot after its completion is considered a natural component of all conspiracies. Consequently, overt acts of concealment after the objectives of the conspiracy have been accomplished may not be used to delay the running of the statute of limitations." (p11-12) "State Felony Statutes of Limitation - Florida (felonies generally) 3 years" (table p25) Also some other interweb stuff: "A faked death, or pseudocide, occurs when an individual leaves evidence to suggest that he or she is dead in order to mislead others. This may be done for a variety of reasons, such as to fraudulently collect insurance money or avoid capture by law enforcement for some other crime." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faked_death) "... if you are defrauded, where the wrongdoer conceals information from you to prevent you from discovering his misdeed, the statute of limitations will not begin to run on the claim until such time as you have had a reasonable opportunity to discover the facts giving rise to your claim..." (http://www.buteralaw.com/newsletters.asp?c=5&id=115) "... people who are presumed dead sometimes turn up alive ... There has been one recent memorable case where this has occurred, such as in the case of John Burney who disappeared after financial problems and reappeared years after, December 1982, to Arkansas. His company and wife had already received the death benefits; so, upon returning, the life insurance company filed a suit against him, his wife, and his company. In the end, Burney’s actions were ruled fraudulent in court, leading to a $470,000 judgement" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_in_absentia)" "... if you get a case where the statute of limitations has seemingly passed, make sure that your case does not fall within one of the four exceptions that most jurisdictions have in some form or other, which can extend the statute of limitations. The first, and the most litigated, is the discovery rule. Under the discovery rule, an action begins to accrue when the injury victim knew or reasonably should have known of the negligence and the harm that ensued ... The third exception is when the culpable party fraudulently conceals knowledge of a cause of action. In this case, in many jurisdictions, the cause of action does not begin to accrue until the reasonable discovery of the fraud ..." (http://www.tlrcblog.com/2007/12/articles/case-work-up/end-runs-around-the-statute-of-limitations/)

I've replied to this in Brain Storming , which seems to be the thread for themes with "long legs"

Even if the meat's tough the skin makes a lovely rug (http://www.rugsinternational.net/goatskin-rugs.html)

I've just whipped out my unabridged copy and, gadzooks, you're right - the complete unadulterated NN text is 322,506 words! (I'm a quick word counter )

Err, Dickens' tome in fact has only 319,307 words whereas, so far, Circumnavigation has 591,000 words (http://www.gayauthor...cumnavigationCJ). Maybe you'd have enjoyed watching your nails grow more than you did reading NN, but evidently you're getting more pleasure reading about Trev's adventures

"Je n'ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parceque je n'ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte." (I would have written a shorter letter, but I didn't have the time) - Blaise Pascal WARNING! WARNING!! CLIFFHANGER ALERT!

CJ's not stupid. I suspect he values life and the absence of crushed body parts. He knows that if he kills or maims one of the two lovebirds then reader retribution will strike with such savage ferocity as to make Hurricane Irene look like a damp squib

According to Wiki, individual salties can roam "thousands of miles from their native territory": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saltwater_crocodile#Distribution Yikes, according to this site salties have been seen as far south as Carnarvon: http://www.environment.gov.au/cgi-bin/sprat/public/publicspecies.pl?taxon_id=1774#australian_distribution So, yeah, it's a definite possibility that Basingstoke, at the very moment of triumph over Trevor, will be snatched into a salty's jaws of death, shrieking in blood-curdling terror at the sudden realisation he has utterly failed, and that his miserable life is about to be crushed and ripped from his broken body with more brutal violence and agony than the collective suffering inflicted on every one of his and Sanchez's previous victims. And all lovingly described in glorious CJ HorrorVision ©

It's the name of a moderately grim town in UK. According to this Google hit it sounds like a perfect place for our friendly assassin to spend a few days relaxing after he's despatched Trevor "Basingstoke, Hampshire. A squalid, ugly, uncomfortable place, an intolerant, racist, homophobic, narrow-minded, authoritarian rat-hole, run by vicious, suburban-minded materialistic philistines. A spiritual and moral emptiness of a way of life based on greed and rampant egomania. Care has no place and tolerance is regarded as a dangerous weakness." What, even darker than Sanchez's entertaining little party in ch84? ("Sanchez’s gun spoke twice, the rounds slamming into Alvarez’s stomach ... Taking careful aim, Sanchez put a bullet in each of Alvarez’s knees, shattering his kneecaps, evoking screams of agony from Alvarez ... Smiling with satisfaction and feeling the warm sensation in his stomach, he rejoined his party, where he would sit and relax, chatting amiably with his people, as Alvarez took an agonizing hour to die.") Gulp So you won't be reading weekly cliffhanging instalments as a serial from now on then

... and will the garlic crusher be reunited with Trevor?

Aaaaahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahah!!!!!!!!!! Quote: "I'm absolutely innocent" - The Goat, 22 August 2011 "I'm absolutely innocent" - Jeffrey Skilling, former Enron Chief, to the Federal Court in Houston 10 April 2006 (http://www.corp-ethi...nron-chief.html)

Enough of this nonsense. CJ attempts to wriggle out of his responsibility for the countless and monstrous atrocities that occur in his stories, such as cliffhangers and torture, by latching onto this clever conceit that the characters write their own story lines, therefore it's "not my fault" when bad things happen to his characters. Some examples of his pitiful excuses: Now, this may be an ingenious avoidance tactic on the part of CJ but it deflects none of the blame for these atrocities from where it clearly lies - at the cloven feet of The Goat as he happily taps his evil and cruel ideas into his keyboard (presumably specially adapted). Furthermore, ingenuity is no defence for criminal wrongdoing - as previously stated (and which was not denied by The Goat) there is no court that would not convict The Goat of his serial wrongdoings on this website. He may deny, prevaricate and bleat his innocence but forum readers know better - we see his guilt for what it is: devious, calculated and without remorse

Aaahhhh, sweeeet!!! Everyone's being so kind 'n' helpful to Trev. No stress, no worries Thanks CJ. But wait, we know the lovebirds will soon be assaulted by a maelstrom of horrors so this should really have been called The Calm Before the Storm

Lies! Lies! Lies! Here's just one single example that proves The Goat is telling evil porkies: LTMP c45 "Kneeling by Chase’s side, Dimitri unsheathed his bloodstained knife, placing it against the skin of Chase’s arm as a smile of anticipation began to light his face and he added, “I’m going to skin you, inch by inch. Tell me the truth and I’ll kill you quickly. Now, let’s get started.” As the knife drew blood, Chase’s anguished yell echoed against the cold, unfeeling rock of the old mine shaft. Dimitri had some concern about the noise, but assumed that the screams would not carry far. Angling for a better position, and having no intention of stopping no matter what the young drummer said, Dimitri used his legs to pin Chase in place and resumed his knife’s agonizing work, a task he was very much enjoying." "In agony from the small strip of skin Dimitri was pulling from the back of his upper arm, feeling every nerve ending howl, Chase glanced up and saw movement silhouetted against the tunnel entrance. Knowing that he had to distract Dimitri, Chase yelled, “I’ll tell you, I’ll tell you, just stop, please stop!” "Chase cried out again, even louder, as Dimitri worked the knife some more" This is bestial. It's inhuman. It's evil. There is no court that would not convict CJ of inhuman cruelty, torture and general beastliness to his characters - the more pain and suffering they endure the happier he is

Love it, yeah, cheap after-shave. Heheheh, says it all as if we didn't know already - Kline's a scummy little two-bit sleazebag. Btw "Lunchtime Special" at my local pub yesterday - Curried Goat. Yum yum, deelicious. Just thought you'd like to know

Heheheh, reckon the wily old goat's giving us some teasing clues here. I can see it now - T+S being chased through the Outback and finally cornered with no hope of escape from their rapidly approaching doom only for their assailant to be thwarted at the last second by a toxic love-bite from some Aussie critter. It's gonna have to be something that can deliver a horrible, agonising and violent death with the assailant screaming in prolonged agony so's CJ can describe their adversary's final, twitching death-throes in minute and loving detail Hmmmmm, so which critters are in the frame?