>>Tell ya what, the next time someone uses your driveway to turn around in please run out and douse the car with gasoline and set it aflame. To really test your "property rights"<<
That's the difference about private property, the owner is allowed to install a gate to STOP everyone from using their driveway as a turn around. We can even forbid police cars from doing it by installing a gate.
Depends on where your house is. If there are deed restrictions like there are here in Texas you may not be "allowed" to install that gate. The concept that just because you own property you can do whatever you want with it went "bye bye" long ago. So, the assertion that has been made that a property owner (AOL in this case) can do whatever they want with their own property is just not true. The ideas that they can do whatever they want with other people's property (employees cars) is a stretch.
What about a mailbox on your property. Who owns that? Or, if AOL can say what people can do with what is inside cars on their property can you stop the mailman and demand he remove certain letters/parcels from his bag that you don;t want on your property while he is there?
Interesting case this AOL case.