Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!bellcore!decvax!genrad!teddy!panda!talcott!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-tgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Barncobustersbuster - "Open" Message-ID: <7191@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 10-Jan-85 16:52:13 EST Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.7191 Posted: Thu Jan 10 16:52:13 1985 Date-Received: Sun, 13-Jan-85 07:42:00 EST References: <1729@zehntel.UUCP> <585@homxa.UUCP> Organization: USAMC ALMSA Lines: 19 > Nor will I patronize any store which prominently displays an > > "OPEN - WELCOME" > > sign, when the shop is dark and the doors are locked. > -- > Pete Stumpf ..!ihnp4!homxa!stumpf > US MAIL AT&T-Labs Room WB 1L-331/Crawford Corners Road/Holmdel,NJ 07733 > Phone 201-870-7368 I always felt that a sign saying "OPEN" in a store window or on a door should make the place LEGALLY open to the public, and it doesn't matter if you had to break a door or window to get in. THAT would sure make them do better about checking that the sign is reversed or taken down when they close! (Also external lights, aimed at signs or whatever, should have the same effect; this is an advertisement that the store is open for business during hours of darkness.) Will