No, but I can only imagine the foot dragging if we had actually said "um, could we have our tables back?". No one made a move to move!
Nice people, right?
Great story, really illustrates how the world works in a microcosm.
If any group isn’t willing to violently enforce their property rights.. some other group will come and take over the land. Its human nature to expand, and appropriate.
I once read a philosopher who said there is no stasis.. among the great civilizations you either are expanding or shrinking. It was interestingly an anti-conservative argument.