From: garys@netcom.com (Gary Stollman)
Subject: Re: What is Gary Stollman..really?..
Date: Thu, 03 Sep 92 05:24:56 GMT
Organization: Netcom - Online Communication Services  (408 241-9760 guest) 

ltf@ncmicro.lonestar.org (Lance Franklin) writes:

>In article <92243.225014ROWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET> ROWHC@CUNYVM.BITNET writes:
>}
>}J.R. Stone writes:
>}> We're just saying that your a raving loony who shouldn't be
>}> trusted with anything sharper than a stick of warm butter.
>}>J.R. Stone
>}>University of Nebraska-Omaha
>}>Where everyone thinks Gary Stollman is a howling nut case.
>}
>}Mr. Stone, if you have nothing nice to say about Mr. Stollman,
>}then don't bother saying anything at all. It is you who is wasting
>}our time with poor food puns.
>}
>}And if you really must know, Gary Stollman is quite capable of
>}handling a firearm. It is a matter of record that he successfully
>}held a gun on a television newsman during a live broadcast and forced
>}him to read a statement concerning the "alien threat."
>}
>}To his credit, nobody was hurt.

>Right...he might have poked somebodies eye out!  (See, Mom was right!)

>I beleive, if memory serves me correctly, that it was a Replica
>gun, not a real gun.  Doesn't mean he wasn't capable of handling a
>real gun....doesn't mean he was.  Just means he chose not to use a
>real one in this instance.
*****
I choose to use an empty toy BB gun for two reasons.  First, because it
looked like a real gun, thus making me seem to have a threat that would
convince him to read the paper.  Second, I figured since my dad worked at
the studio, and I had a guest pass to enter, that even if I was arrested,
they wouldn't be able to charge me with anything.  The best of both
worlds, so to speak.  Actually, the Burbank police did NOT want to arrest
me, and offered me a chance to simply walk away clean, with the
stipulation that I check myself into a mental hospital.  I took too long
to think it over, so they trumped up the baloney charges against me.  I
was afraid of being forced into another hospital I guess, although the end
result would have been a hell of a lot better than what took place!  As it
was, I was beaten up in jail by a convict while the guards next to me
stared blankly up at the ceiling.  On my way out, they gave me a filthy
shirt to put on while they were supposedly "looking" for my jacket, when
actually they had given it to my mom and cousin who were waiting outside
for 3 hours.  They made me sit there for an hour or so with it on, but
after only 15 minutes, my lip broke open and started to bleed.  Although
when I got outside, I ripped the shirt off in anger and threw it away,
when I went to UCLA-NPI, I almost died of the worst viral infection I had
ever experienced.  And that wasn't the only attempts on my life.  While I
was sitting there with the shirt on, unrelated to it, three guys sitting
in the waiting room just beyond reach shouted, "GARY STOLLMAN!!" and began
circling the anteroom.  The "guard" came in and told them to sit down.  If
I hadn't have been so stupid, sitting there with a infected shirt on, I
would have thanked him.


>(Note: That's Replica, not Replicant...the juries still out on whether
>       Clone guns can fire.  Which reminds me, have you checked your
>       gun lately?  Perhaps it's been replaced by a clone as well, just
>       waiting to poke your eye out the next time you point it at a
>       Grey!)


>Lance "SPAM-for-the-greys" Franklin


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