Riding in someone elses automobile?

[paddle007]

I am an automotive mechanic. Today it occured to me that maybe I could dig myself a hole by riding or driving a customers vehicle with the owner in it. If their vehicle is an extension of their home, am I obligated to inform them that I am carrying? If so, I might as well have it tattoed on my forehead. Any recommendations on a good local tatto artist?

 

[TDH]

I am an automotive mechanic. Today it occured to me that maybe I could dig myself a hole by riding or driving a customers vehicle with the owner in it. If their vehicle is an extension of their home, am I obligated to inform them that I am carrying? If so, I might as well have it tattoed on my forehead. Any recommendations on a good local tatto artist?

My penis is an extension of my body and by law I'm required to notify women before I, oh well you get the point. So many laws just aren't right.

 

[homeslice]

How does that saying go again? CMC

 

[Nolacopusmc]

First, a vehicle is not an extension of your home.
Second, you are OK legally unless you are forcibly entering. You have no legal requirement to notify them.

 

[jmcrawf1]

Yep, i'm inclined to believe the customer inviting you into the vehicle releases you from any bad juju

 

[paddle007]

Thanks guys. I really did not want that tatto on my forehead. Damn it Joel, now you know. You'll be looking at me all crazy like trying to figure out where is that pocket rocket he just bought.

 

[FishingBack]

How do we stop this extension of your home nonsense?

 

[BRLAShooter]

How do we stop this extension of your home nonsense?

We could buy every billboard and put up signs "Your car IS NOT and extension of your home."

Other than that, simply nicely correcting people who use that terminology is the only way to educate the mass populace.

I'm guilty of it, as I'm sure most people are, until they were educated.

 

[Nolacopusmc]

We could buy every billboard and put up signs "Your car IS NOT and extension of your home."

Other than that, simply nicely correcting people who use that terminology is the only way to educate the mass populace.

I'm guilty of it, as I'm sure most people are, until they were educated.

Hell, I was too until I researched it.

 

[oleheat]

It may not LEGALLY be an extension of your home, but you do enjoy SOME of the same rights as you would in your home. The right to prevent a forced entry when you are inside the vehicle would be one....Isn't this correct? Obviously, in some ways there's a helluva difference. Chances are, Miss July driving around naked in a convertable will result in legal trouble for her (and probably a few wrecks)....
Here's a question though, seriously. How about a hunting camp? (has to be YES) RV? Travel Trailer? Tent?

 

[Nolacopusmc]

It may not LEGALLY be an extension of your home, but you do enjoy SOME of the same rights as you would in your home. The right to prevent a forced entry when you are inside the vehicle would be one....Isn't this correct? Obviously, in some ways there's a helluva difference. Chances are, Miss July driving around naked in a convertable will result in legal trouble for her (and probably a few wrecks)....
Here's a question though, seriously. How about a hunting camp? (has to be YES) RV? Travel Trailer? Tent?

Yep, exactly. The supreme court (not sur ethe case off-hand) has ruled you have the same expectation of safety, ie self-defense, in your car, boat, RV, etc, as you do your home. However, you do not have the same expectATION OF privacy, due mainly to the fact that useage of the roadways and driving is a privelage and npt a right, but self-defense is. that is a very broad explanation.

 

[oleheat]

Yep, exactly. The supreme court (not sur ethe case off-hand) has ruled you have the same expectation of safety, ie self-defense, in your car, boat, RV, etc, as you do your home. However, you do not have the same expectATION OF privacy, due mainly to the fact that useage of the roadways and driving is a privelage and npt a right, but self-defense is. that is a very broad explanation.

Sounds good to me.....

 

[Hitman]

Where did that saying come from?

 

[Nolacopusmc]

Where did that saying come from?

What saying?

Extension of home....has been used for probably 100 years or so. It is a common term, like calling any soft drink a coke, or using any phrase to convey a common concept. The statement itself is not 100% factually accurate, but the spirit of the words are true.

 

[Ben Segrest]

How do we stop this extension of your home nonsense?

Put this

a vehicle is not an extension of your home.

At the top of the homepage with a link to an explanation.

 

[Brian22]

I'd like some more edumcation on the "extension of your home" thing...... before running across this thread, I thought that the car was in fact an extension. Clarification?

 

[mr.z28]

I'd like some more edumcation on the "extension of your home" thing...... before running across this thread, I thought that the car was in fact an extension. Clarification?

this...

 

[yamaha0343]

Chances are, Miss July driving around naked in a convertable will result in legal trouble for her

And that's a damned shame.

 

[Nolacopusmc]

I'd like some more edumcation on the "extension of your home" thing...... before running across this thread, I thought that the car was in fact an extension. Clarification?

What clarification do you need?

let me ask you a question...

What do you interpret the words"your vehicle is an extension of your home" to mean?

 

[Bearco]

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