I really did have to walk to school uphill both ways.

Mind you, there was a downhill both ways too. So from home, up a hill then downhill to school. Same on the way back.

There is duty to retreat in RI

Just limiting it to in-person dining makes more sense. As it was writtne, following the law is just going to lead to agitated customers taking it out on employees for something they don't deserve.

I guess I see the argument that it'd be too little of an impact but anytime larger environmental concerns get shifted to straws, we've basically lost the plot.

And the State Legislative has a link for us to oppose these stupid bills.

I'm not surprised at them thou as David Cicilline was the one causing the 1 hour argument over they should say the "Pledge of Allegiance" in Congress.

LOL

Can't believe the free market has led to a more expensive and objectively worse service. Again!

I generally apply Occam’s Razor to most situations. It has rarely failed to deliver.

One of the more annoying responses to common sense observations is endless demands for citations… from folks who never cite anything themselves.

The language you use in this comment seems to more accurately convey speculation, as opposed to how you initially phrased it.

Only Communists would have a "straw law". How did we let that pass?

Recycle...too hard?

I don't know.

You are allowed to leave your apartment when there's someone else there anyway. There's no buddy system law as far as I know.

Landlords are the lowest parasites in society and I do not feel bad for her at all, especially since she tried to illegally remove someone from a property.

I don't think its unreasonable to question certain measures that were taken during covid. There some which were short sighted and within the scope of being considered overreach and misguided which did more to cause distrust of the local government than help against covid. Now is the time to look back and question these things as they are not currently happening and we have more information on the topic itself.

If he was a "guest", where was his host?

But he wasn't the tenant. She did not rent the apartment to him. He was not protecting his home, he was a home invader who wouldn't leave.

Yeah, she was a fool to take him on herself instead of involving the police. I had a landlord who went through something similar to a former tenant of my apartment. The original tenant moved out, his friends moved in but they weren't on the lease. They wouldn't leave and laughed when he asked them for the rent. My landlord punched one and got arrested. Years later he still considered it worth it. I guess he was lucky that's all that happened to him.

you think that didn't happen with the yokels going nuts in the state at the time?

The Holy Spirit was the one to kick the door in. The Lord was on her side.

Until she got shot, of course.

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that if he wasn’t the leaseholder/tenant, and was inhabiting the unit after the tenant abandoned it (as the article suggests), the balance of evidence suggests he probably was squatting or trespassing.

Of course, there’s always the possibility that this is the rare exception, but it’s a rare exception for a reason.

That can be arranged.

You’re correct. You have a right to defend yourself against intruders whether the house is yours or not

And you read this lease to be able to so definitively say he "had no legal right to be there"?

Certainly shouldn't be .. castle law, thank God.

I wish I could give them the benefit of the doubt, but they've been so wrong so many times in their reporting on a variety of different stories that i cant even take them seriously.

Fun science experiment, it might be cold enough to blow bubbles and they will freeze. When you break them, they shatter!

Most leases place specific restrictions on long-term subleasing “guests.”

> He was not the tenant and had no legal right to be there.

Is anyone saying that the tenant didn't want him in the apartment? Otherwise, I'm pretty sure you're allowed to have guests over to your apartment.

I think they suck at updating stories with new information after adding stuff. My working theory is that the computer that can update stories is in the studio they've been secretly locked out of. It's the only explanation for them pretending a minor fire needs to keep them out for several months