She's getting a visit from Barny Fife, "Evening m'aam. <sniiiiifff>
I'm just following up on a report we had earlier today, nothing to be
concerned about, somebody wantin' to buy a flight simulator for a ten
year old boy. Clerk thought it was a little suspicious, you know,
<sniiiiifff> little kid and a really complicated piece of computer
software. Especially what with september 11th and all. I'm just here
to make sure everything's allright."...
I don't give much credence to the Register... but they got the article
off of a small-town newspaper website (I'm sure you saw this one,
'cause you quoted stuff that's in their article that's not on the
Register):
http://www.recorder.com/Headlines/tuesday_basic.htm
Here's a site with some info on the location:
http://www.epodunk.com/cgi-bin/genInfo.php?locIndex=2913
It's still rather distressing what kind of paranoia people are willing
to accept.
"Shortly before Christmas, the FBI issued a terror alert to beware of
drivers with maps, or reference books." ... So now if I have relatives
somwhere else I'm not allowed to take a road atlas with me when I go
visit them during the holidays otherwise I'm a suspected terrorist.
I guess the next time I walk into a crowded shopping mall with a
paper-clip in my hand I'll be arrested on suspicion of using it to
pick the lock on a utility door and sabotage the electrical system so
I can blow up the mall with everybody in it. Muahahahaha!!!!!!
Anybody else seen Paycheck? Good movie I thought. There was one line
toward the end, the villain says "I'm the future, Mike!" and something
about the way he said it just sounded hoaky, like "as opposed to the
past Mike who I'm killing now. I'm going to kill you and take your
place, muahahahaha" -- though that wasn't what he meant. If I'd been
directing I'd have had them retake it and had him say "Michael" to try
and make it sound better. There's also a gag with a spinning chair
during a police interrogation that just sucked -- we're going to make
this chair spin while we interrogate you ... for no apparent reason.
But other than that I thought it was a pretty decent film, pretty well
written in spite of being largely an action/FX movie.
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> I read it on the reg
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34776.html
> -----Original Message-----
> From: S. Isaac Dealey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Sunday, January 11, 2004 20:27
> To: CF-Community
> Subject: Re: America gone off the deep end of paranoia
> What's the source? The story sounds like a hoax. Not that
> I would be
> horribly shocked at it's not being... but still...
>> "Posted by: Paradox on Saturday, January 10, 2004 - 05:53
>> PM
>> Better watch what you buy, folks, or at least not look
>> nervous while you
>> ask for it. The front lines of the war on terror are
>> apparently being
>> fought by software clerks according to the tale of one
>> woman in Colrain,
>> MA (second story).
>> The woman, an Air Force Reserve pilot, attempted to buy a
>> commercial
>> flight sim for her 10 year old kid and was told by the
>> nervous Staples
>> clerk that it was illegal for her to purchase one. What's
>> more, is that
>> the clerk then proceeded to call the cops who then showed
>> up at her
>> house to investigate the situation!
>> Olearcek said the trooper asked her if she had inquired
>> about the
>> software, and she said she had and showed him her
>> military
>> identification.
>> "He was totally understanding, but protocol means he has
>> to follow
>> through," Olearcek said. "I immediately gave him my
>> military ID and I
>> had no problem giving it to him. At first I felt like,
>> 'Wait a minute,
>> this is America.' But we also have to understand it takes
>> everybody to
>> pay attention. At first I was a little frazzled with
>> someone knocking on
>> my window at 8:30 at night, but the bottom line is this
>> is
>> a civilian
>> who has tried to do his best."
>> "
>> I find it sad this woman 'accepts' this level of Paranoia
>> as normal.
>> I guess if she wasn't military she would accept being
>> hauled down to the
>> station until she could *prove her innocence*.
>> Would also be interesting to know what the woman's
>> ethnicity was.
>> -Gel
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