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Old Tue Jul 08, 2008, 05:10pm
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Originally Posted by SanDiegoSteve
The point I was making is that if you don't know the rule, don't make up a rule. He should have ignored the foot out of the box instead of making up a rule.
Steve, perhaps, rather than him having made up the rule , he was going by something he had heard for years there locally. A neighborhood rule myth,one might call it. Not excusing the dumb ruling, just offering an alternative explaination for the ignorance.
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