Thus, the "If". Here in Florida a few years back, the DEP (Department of Enviro-Whacko People) wanted to count all the panthers in FL. But they cannot go onto PRIVATE PROPERTY to "see if any panthers are there". Landowners steadfastly refused to give permission to DEP personnel to come on their property. The DEP wanted the legislature to pass laws to make them immune to tresspass laws so they could go on to private property to count the panthers that aren't there. It didn't pass. The DEP would have made the property worthless if they so much as found a single turd from what may have appeared to be a panther. No development, No farming, No hunting, No ANYTHING!..................As Oscar Wilde (?) once quipped, "If called by a panther, don't anther!".........
Ogden Nash.
. Watch out for those lions, too.
"The Lion" {Ogden Nash]
Oh, weep for Mr. and Mrs. Bryan!
He was eaten by a lion;
Following which, the lion's lioness
Up and swallowed Bryan's Bryaness.