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<blockquote data-quote="Dr Lex Winter" data-source="post: 591167" data-attributes="member: 20140"><p>But it's still a 'mechanical means'. It'd probably be easier to cop the fine and then argue that using a shovel is also a mechanical means (i.e. a lever is the most simple machine, too, so it's not just mechanical force but mechanical force exerted through a machine) than it would be to pain yourself trying to get around the wording of a poorly written law. I deal with laws for a living and even I can't make heads nor tails of the Act nor see any sense nor reason in it. I don't break the law, mostly because I'm out to potter about not make money from it, but I secretly am waiting for my first fine for moving more than 1 m3 of material in a two day period just to be able to try my luck in court.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dr Lex Winter, post: 591167, member: 20140"] But it's still a 'mechanical means'. It'd probably be easier to cop the fine and then argue that using a shovel is also a mechanical means (i.e. a lever is the most simple machine, too, so it's not just mechanical force but mechanical force exerted through a machine) than it would be to pain yourself trying to get around the wording of a poorly written law. I deal with laws for a living and even I can't make heads nor tails of the Act nor see any sense nor reason in it. I don't break the law, mostly because I'm out to potter about not make money from it, but I secretly am waiting for my first fine for moving more than 1 m3 of material in a two day period just to be able to try my luck in court. [/QUOTE]
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