David Williams wrote:
>
> On 11 Sep 98, at 23:04, Ward Donald Griffiths III wrote:
> > The best assumption is
> > that a couple of kids came through, noticed the magazine, thought
> > "maybe this guy's got a computer, let's go look".
>
> This is the sort of thing that always crosses my mind whenever I
> bring in a new piece of equipment and have to carry it in from the
> parking lot.
In my neighborhood these days (in those days I was in Los Angeles,
a lovely town if Sacramento was plowed back into the swamp on which
it was built) in New Jersey, the locals remember how my current
wife took a baseball bat to to the guy crowbarring open the back
door -- he bruised her knee a bit, she put him out. The local cops
were going to book her for child abuse (17 years old, 5'11", 190#),
but they eased up when inquiries brought out that when his folks
brought him with them from Brazil a decade back they forgot to
check him (and themselves) in with the INS. They also tried to
confiscate the baseball bat, but she reminded one of the cops of
the things he used to do when she babysat him as a child.
A couple years back, when we were having part of the attic finished,
the building inspector noticed the number of computers and tried for
a bribe based on his (incorrect at the time) assumption that we must
be running a business out of the house. Lisa went to high school
with the jerk. That part was cleared up no problem. (The bribe to
get the building permit was merely the way these things are done here
in Hudson County, the scale is relatively consistent).
Gods, but I want to get out of this hellhole and move to Wyoming.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram_at_cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright
Received on Fri Sep 11 1998 - 23:42:52 BST