Posted on 01/07/2005 12:06:32 PM PST by Red Badger
A Russian lawyer has staked a claim on all the world's clouds.
Vladimir Osipiv is using the same law that allowed an American man to claim the moon.
He is hoping the clouds will be snapped by environmentalists who will then take legal action against governments that allow clouds to be polluted.
He said: "The owner of the damaged clouds will be able to seek punitive damages from polluters."
American Dennis Hope who claimed the moon in 1980 has since sold plots of land there to more than two million people.
Osipev, 48, from Yeisk in Russia's Krasnodar region, said: "The conquerors of the Wild West used the same principle, when they pronounced their ownership of the land.
"It is probably incomprehensible for the vast majority of people that clouds can be privatised. However, I am absolutely sure that I will get support both in Russia and in the international community."
A legal claim to the clouds of the world has now been posted in 150 countries, reports Russian media.
He takes The Rolling Stones waaay to seriously.
(hey, you, get offa my cloud!)
wait...someone owns the moon? Then sold plots to 2 million people? Will this stuff hold up in court? Maybe i should invest in some moon property for the future. Whats good Lunar land, they don't have any beaches....maybe crater side land?
Oh by the way, I call shotgun on Mars
No blitz
haha......
he is a better man than me cause..........
I've looked at clouds from both sides now,
From up and down, and still somehow,
It's cloud illusions I recall,
I really don't know clouds, at all.
Hmm...so does that mean the next time my basement floods out due to heavy rains I can sue whoever owns the clouds?
Can people sue him when "His" clouds produce floods?
haha.......he would just say it was not his cloud....can't fingerprint the clouds i guess
Sorry, You posted that while I was still pecking away with my index finger style typing.
now worries...great minds and all that!
:'D
Cool
Now i know who to sue when they block my Sun.
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