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Consider any undercover operation - they're always pretending to be a 'pizza man' of some kind.

The rules are in place to prevent entrapment, which is the solicitation of an illegal act. Cutting off your power - while mean and objectionable, doesn't seem to be covered under entrapment.




I think cutting off the power (or network connectivity or water or whatever) without permission or lawful non-enforcement-related-purpose might itself be criminal, and could easily be argued as a form of coercion.



An undercover cop is actually doing the thing. They are not undercover as a guy in a pizza costume with no pizza.

Am I mistaken?


Well why would you invite a pizza delivery guy in without any pizza? Actually now that I think about it I don't ever recall inviting a pizza delivery guy into a dwelling as opposed to paying at the door, so that wasn't a very good example. But I thought your objection was 'not really a pizza delivery person' as opposed to 'not actually carrying pizza'. It sounds like you would be OK with it as long as you got lunch out of it :-)


I am far more okay with an agent with the skills to address the problem showing up and fixing a naturally occurring problem, than I am with an agent pretending to fix a problem they created. Of course it's easier to find an agent with the skills to address "no pizza" than "no internet". And "more okay" doesn't mean "okay" - I've not thought sufficiently deeply to confidently say which side of the line that falls on, but I'm at least a little leery of it.


Well the point is I am much more comfortable with the idea of them infiltrating something than with the idea of them being total impostors.

Not entirely comfortable, though.




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