Popa,
Are you an ordained Orthodox Jewish rabbi? Yes or no answer, please.
Whether or not you are a rabbi, as a Jew, I ask you again how you justify a) law breaking and b) causing physical damage to the property of another Jew. Please answer. There are many others here more learned in the Torah than I who will surely look forward to your psak Halacha. On the other hand, perhaps you are waiting for Purim.
Now I see you are delving into the law.
Are you an attorney admitted to practice before the highest courts of any of the United States? Yes or no answer, please.
As for the rest of this silliness, I cannot devote much time, but I balance this against the risk that people will read what you post and believe it to be accurate. It is not.
Posted by Borough Park Mensch
Trust me. Blocking someone’s driveway is indeed actionable in the New York courts. Google is a poor substitute for law school.
Reply by popa_bar_abba
Yes, but Westlaw is a decent substitute. There are 39 NY published cases which have the word block within 2 words of driveway. I skimmed the ones that seemed relevant, and none established a tort of trespass or any other tort for blocking a driveway from the public road. Damnum absque injuria, baby! Where did you go to law school?
I would not spend one billable second on Westlaw looking for these cases. How would you think a case of driveway blocking would wind up reported? Do you think anyone has the money to bring such a case before a court that would write and publish an opinion? Do you think most people have the money to defend such a case before such a court? This is the same reason there are so few reported decisions involving parking tickets. Few people can afford to bring them to the appellate courts. The nonsense here is that there is a decision on every point of law imaginable. There is not. I encourage people to go to Small Claims.
Posted by Borough Park Mensch
Your blocking my driveway directly impacts me.
Reply by popa_bar_abba
Of course it impacts you. The same as if I get the last bottle of coke at the supermarket which you wanted. The point is though, that it is not impacting a property right that you have.
Wrong answer.
Reply by popa_bar_abba
Of course. You’ll subpoena the CR’s records, then track me through my IP, then claim in court that this proves I was the one who broke your windows. I’m sure you’ll win on that. Again–where did you go to law school?
Posted by Borough Park Mensch
I refuse to believe someone who is an ordained rabbi wrote this. In fact, it’s even harder to believe that a Jew with a yeshiva education is the writer.
Reply by popa_bar_abba
I typed it. Not wrote it.
Reply by popa_bar_abba
I’m objecting to the fact that they are building driveways and monopolizing public spaces, and especially since many are illegal, or even if legal, are not approved by taking into account the public’s needs. And in that context, especially to the attitude that if someone blocks them for 2 seconds that they fly off the handle.
A tortfeasor (one who commits a civil wrong as opposed to a crime) takes his victim the way he finds him.
Reply by popa_bar_abba
And the reason I started advocating for self help was in response to them yelling about how they’ll get us towed. I’m pointing out that force goes both ways and that people who live in houses with glass windows shouldn’t throw tow trucks.
This paragraph fairly well sums up the nonsense contained in your posts.
Again, someone who claims to observe the Torah should not advocate intentionally damaging the property of others.