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attractive nuisance

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Noun1.attractive nuisance - anything on your premises that might attract children into danger or harm; "their swimming pool is an attractive nuisance; they should fence it in"
nuisance - (law) a broad legal concept including anything that disturbs the reasonable use of your property or endangers life and health or is offensive


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Until you agree to being the one to pay for any expense incurred, you have no right to place anything on public property, especially something that is considered by many to be only an attractive nuisance.
PUBLIC FORUM by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Demolition of a fire trap, a structural catastrophe waiting to happen, or an attractive nuisance and replacing it with structured open space may well represent an improvement to your overall program.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure... by Stryker, Rick / Camping Magazine
But the day the house was trucked the half-mile to Frommer's property, a county inspector issued him a citation labeling the structure an attractive nuisance, Kennedy said.
CITY SEEKS RESTORER TO SAVE HOUSE PALMDALE'S OLDEST HOME GRANTED A ... by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
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