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From: Russell Hendel <rhendel@saber.towson.edu>
Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2000 23:34:08 -0400 (EDT)
Subject: Parking but not buying **is** theft--you can be fined!

Jonathan Schiff (V32n70) responds about the status of parking in a parking
lot while doing business in another store.

This **is** theft under Jewish law. However it is a special type of
theft: It is theft where the other party does not loose! Most people
think there is no payment for such a theft. Correct(almost). But
if you continually do it you can be fined.

The exact citations occur in Rambam Thefts and Losses 3:6-9
>>
9)A person who lives (eg parks) in someone elses lot without his
knowledge: Then if the owner does not normally charge then this
person need not pay EVEN if he would otherwise pay(parking meters)
because this is a case of THIS PERSON BENEFITED WHILE THE OTHER
DID NOT LOSE

6) A person who took someone elses ox to carry a bundle and returns
the animal intack to the owner...EVEN THOUGH HE HAS VIOLATED A
NEGATIVE PROHIBITION (of theft) nevertheless he does not pay because
no loss occured. BUT IF HE CONTINUALLY DOES THIS THEN WE FINE HIM
>>

As for the other case (walking into a laundromat to get change)
I would think that the owner wants people to use his laundromat
as the advertisement benefits his business

Russell Hendel; Phd ASA
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