A Corvette C7 not being claimed by adverse possession. (Photo by Bill Pugliano/Getty Images)
One of the best days in a young law nerd’s life is the moment the Property professor introduces the concept of adverse possession, setting in motion a million dumb jokes whenever a student swipes another’s drink at bar review. “This is mine by adverse possession!” they’ll laugh, unless dealing with a pedantic gunner of the highest order who will note, “You have to possess it open and notoriously for 10 years first,” completely missing the meager humor as they miss all humor in their lives.
It’s unclear if this Canadian man is a 1L or just really high, but either way, he decided to try out this joke with someone’s Corvette only to have the gunner role played by the police… with actual guns.
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I think somebody may have misunderstood how squatter’s rights work. That somebody is a Vancouver man who climbed into a parked Corvette C7 with an open roof, sat in the driver’s seat, and claimed the car was his. The owner of the car, and later the Vancouver police, disagreed.
Eventually, police shot the car-squatter in the legs with a bean bag shotgun, which apparently hurt enough that the police were able to drag the guy out of the car.
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Yeah…. I’m imagining the angles of being shot while sitting in a car by a guy in a standing position and it seems like “in the legs” is doing a lot of work there. The high-pressure propelled bean bag striking another bean bag seems more likely what put the guy out of commission but Canadians are nothing but polite in their euphemisms.
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