HDTenEightyP/NetNews huggingface dataset:
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...) 
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 14:44:51 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.143233.6225@elroy.jpl.nasa.gov> urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban) writes:
>In article <1992Nov20.132821.27352@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>>In article <1992Nov18.210411.29484@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>>>wentzell@ace.acadiau.ca (LEEANN WENTZELL) writes:
>
>>>: >Dragons last forever, but not so little boys.
>>            live
>
>When PP&M now perform this song, the line is
>
>   Dragons live forever, but not little girls and boys.
>
>It is not clear whether the fact that Jackie Paper's sex is
>unstated is intentional.

Oh Please!  Not yet another unnecessary PC item to muck up our lives!

Little girls statistically don't play with Dragons; they should be allowed
to if they want to, but don't make the stupid claim that it is more likely
that "Jackie" is a girl than a boy in the context of this song.

Next you'll be telling me that when Deep Space Nine premiers, the episode
will be entitled:

Where No Sentinent Being Has Gone Before.

There was a case in the '70's where some woman petitioned the court to get
her name changed.  While you can easily concoct a reason to do so, she
insisted that her name was sexist - Cooperman, and wanted to change it
to Cooperperson.

Enough already.

cj "little girls are pink, and little boys are blue" l
From: egilmour@ac.dal.ca
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Professor has class unknowingly interpret a non-poem?
Date: 22 Nov 92 14:31:11 -0400
Organization: Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

One of my Profs told a story about a Professor somewhere who wanted to
make a point to a class about how unreliable literary criticism is.  
The Prof asked his class to give their interpretations of a "poem" 
that was on the board.  After an hour of the students interpreting 
the meaning of the "poem" and coming to their various
intellectual conclusions, the Prof revealed to the class that it
wasn't really a poem at all but just a bunch of words and names that
were left over from a class that had come before.


Is this a UL or is it a true and cruel joke played by an actual Professor
in an actual class?
Tenaj
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Child Molestors - internationally organized?
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 00:45:52 GMT

rdippold@qualcom.qualcomm.com (Ron Dippold) writes:
: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)writes:
: > According to some people from the UK - pedophilia seems to be fairly
: > well established there.  It is not in the US.
: > Here in the US - most child molesters are relatives of the child, usually
: > the father or uncle.  There are no organized groups anywhere in the world,
: > that has been documented.
: 
: There's NAMBLA. 

If you can call them organized. They appear to be more noise than anything.
They also manage to avoid violating statuatory rape laws. That would seem
to indicate that they avoid under age partners.

Bill
Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: Wed, 18 Nov 92 17:25:46 -0500 
From: Dale.James@cs.cmu.edu
Subject: Re: Frozen Waste

Well, this may put me in the running for AFU motto of the week, but I'm almost
certain this is true.  My father was the manager of a Pepsi distributor in
central WV for years, and about the time that the distributors started putting
warning lables on their vending machines, I'm certain he told me that the
parent company (RKO Bottlers, out of Princeton WV) was being sued by some
would-be theives who got mashed by a toppled machine.  He ended up leaving the
company before the case was resolved, though.

--Dale
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Calvin/Hobbes...) 
Reply-To: urban@sideshow.jpl.nasa.gov (Michael P Urban)
Organization: Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Pasadena, CA
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 14:32:33 GMT

In article <1992Nov20.132821.27352@news.columbia.edu> lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
>In article <1992Nov18.210411.29484@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com> billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson) writes:
>>wentzell@ace.acadiau.ca (LEEANN WENTZELL) writes:

>>: >Dragons last forever, but not so little boys.
>            live

When PP&M now perform this song, the line is

   Dragons live forever, but not little girls and boys.

It is not clear whether the fact that Jackie Paper's sex is
unstated is intentional.

(removing sci.med from the Newsgroups:)

	Mike Urban

	urban@cobra.jpl.nasa.gov

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com (Bruce Tindall)
Subject: Re: Stupid Quote
Originator: sasbmt@jjoyce.unx.sas.com
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 22:34:29 GMT
Organization: SAS Institute Inc.


In article <1ehc7tINNac1@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>, rxh6@po.CWRU.Edu (Randall Holt) writes:
>Is this a clever commerical advertisement for said book ?

I've got no direct financial interest in sales of the book -- 
not even an indirect interest, if the author has the good sense
to follow the example of all those retired people whose car plates
say "I'm spending my children's inheritance."

>Randy 'Or a plot to replace Terry as the current nom-de-UL?' Holt

ObUL:  Duke University is funded entirely by the royalties from
the sale of Terrycloth, a fabric named for its joint inventors,
Terry Sanford and Lauch Faircloth.

Bruce "Well, it's easier to spell than Krzyzewskicloth" Tindall

-- 
Bruce Tindall, Core Testing Mgr., SAS Institute Inc., Cary, N.C. 27513
From: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM (Brian Scearce)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Nasty mistake!
Date: 23 Nov 92 23:20:32 GMT
Reply-To: bls@sector7g.Eng.Sun.COM
Organization: Sun Microsystems
NNTP-Posting-Host: sector7g

In article 722365740@reading, ssugwebb@csug3.cs.reading.ac.uk (G. L. Webb) writes:
> Anyhow has anyone else heard this story or similar gross mistakes?

One of my all-time favorite jokes:

Q: Did you hear about the newlyweds who didn't know the difference
   between putty and K-Y Jelly(tm)?

A: All of their windows fell out.

---
Brian Scearce                                           bls@sector7g.eng.sun.com
              The above does not necessarily represent Sun policy.
                  "You can't fit the truth on a t-shirt, man."
                                 "That'd fit."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: shecters@ucunix.san.uc.edu (Robb Shecter)
Subject: Re: Legal Tender
Organization: University of Cincinnati
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 1992 21:58:18 GMT

   (Anthony Datri) writes:
>
>None of the major car-rental companies will take cash -- they want a credit
>card so that they can run it to the limit if there's a problem with the car,
>instead of dealing with the insurance company like professionals would.  The
>solution is to use a card without much spare credit on it.

   Not quite correct.  One needs a credit card to secure the use of the car,
but to actually PAY for the rental, cash is fine (I have done this.)

Robb

-- 
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                                                  ^^^^^^^
                 My university cannot spell my name...
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: Waltzing Matilda (was: Re: kfsla;jfdkla;iuaeut)
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 1992 07:35:20 GMT

In article <1ep99mINN364@huon.itd.adelaide.edu.au> phil@adam.adelaide.edu.au writes:

>But do you know the reason the "Waltzing Matilda" never became the national
>anthem?
>
>1.  The music is an old Irish folk balad.
>2.  The rights to the above-mentioned tune are owned by an American, and the
>    Australian govenernment did not want to pay royalties to the US every
>    time we played the national anthem.

A few questions:

1)	Was "Waltzing Matilda" ever performed by PPM?
2)	Is it about drugs?
3)	Is the American mentioned above Lenny Lipton?

cj "Did it inspire a cartoon show?" l
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Aluminum cookware:  Recipe for disaster?
From: hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz (Hugh Grierson)
Date: Thu, 19 Nov 92 04:56:00 GMT
Organization: Fujitsu New Zealand

In article <sbarnhar-171192153648@morril6t-19.micro.umn.edu> sbarnhar@mailbox.mail.umn.edu (Dr. Barnhart) writes:
>The other night as I finished steaming rice in my aluminum cookware, my
>roomie starts telling me about how bad aluminum cookware is.  It's putting
>aluminum oxide in the body, causing all kinds of health problems, the most
>significant of which is the increase in susceptibility to Alzheimer's
>disease.

Unlikely.  I've been using aluminum (that's accented on the 2nd syllable
by the way) for so long I can't remember, and it hasn't effected my, er,
whatever it was we were talking about.

ObSlackJoke:
A man goes to his doctor for a checkup.  The results come in, and the doctor
starts to tell him, "Well, it's not good.  For a start you've got AIDS."
"Well bugger me," the man replies, "that not too good.  Oh dear."  The
doctor continues "But not only that, you've got Alzheimer's disease also."
The man ponders this for a moment then says "Alzheimers eh?  That's where
you lose your memory isn't it?"  "That's correct" replies the doctor.
"That's not too good either," continues the man, "So what was the first one
again?"

Hugh "not giving up my day job" Grierson
-- 
Hugh Grierson          Fujitsu/ICL New Zealand - Software Development Centre
hugh@nezsdc.icl.co.nz                Speaking for myself only.  See figure 1.
    Quote of the decade: "We're not just talking about unpopulated areas
     of the Southern Hemisphere anymore" [Pres. Bush, on the Ozone hole]
From: hwt@bcarh11a.BNR.CA (Henry Troup)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Courgettes (was Re: doggy style)
Date: 16 Nov 92 20:17:04 GMT
Reply-To: Henry.Troup@BNR.CA
Distribution: world
Organization: Bell-Northern Research Ltd., Ottawa, Canada

In article <1992Nov9.124206.6461@nntp.nta.no>, styri@hal.nta.no
(YuNoHoo) writes:

|>however, one photographer wanted to have a picture and returned with his
|>camera. The result was a broken camera and a lot of upset techs.
|>
|>Guess the bunch of pro. MRI people reading this group are able to tell if
|>this is just a legend or a true story.

If it was long enough ago, just maybe.  You don't find a lot of ferrous
metals in today's cameras, and haven't since about 1975.  Aluminium is
lighter, and pros buy titanium body Nikons (lust, drool!).  My old
Pentax Spotmatics are at risk, however.
               
Henry Troup - H.Troup@BNR.CA (Canada) - BNR owns but does not share my opinions
	     Only twelve more shopping days 'till St. Andrew's Day!
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From: linden@positive.Eng.Sun.COM (Trelford Pinkerton)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.med
Subject: Smoke cigarettes -- leave early!
Date: 22 Nov 1992 23:55:08 GMT
Organization: The Gluestick Inc.
NNTP-Posting-Host: positive
Keywords: Park all day here, they never check

Many people have heard the old urban legend that
   "every cigarette you smoke takes N days off your life".

Now obviously, that's a dramatic oversimplification.

But my question is, overlooking the flaws in the model, 
what is the value of 'N'?    I.e. can we say that 365 ciggies a day
takes 1 year off your life, so each cig is worth a day.  

Are there any numbers we could plug in that would make 
this simplification somewhat meaningful in some way?

     Trelford Pinkerton
--
   "Call me Ishmael"  Again and again I left a pleading message on the Captain's
   answering machine.  But he never did return my call, so I gave up whaling
   and became a computer programmer.   [Vol 1, "Moby Frob"]
Xref: sparky alt.folklore.urban:29389 alt.folklore.computers:16648
From: trif@bike.rad.washington.edu (To Run In Fear)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
Date: 23 Nov 92 12:36:24 GMT
	<1992Nov20.044155.18500@news.columbia.edu> <By0tsJ.Bw@world.std.com>
	<1992Nov21.145321.28348@news.columbia.edu> <9211212231.36@rmkhome.UUCP>
Organization: University of Washington, Seattle WA

In article <9211212231.36@rmkhome.UUCP> rmk@rmkhome.UUCP (Rick Kelly) writes:

   It has been found that it will not run on the Cyrix 486.

   The 16 bit Intel 486 is primarily meant for laptops.

As far as I know, there is no 16 bit *Intel* 486.  At least, I have seen no
press releases or other mention of one.
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: smb@ulysses.att.com (Steven Bellovin)
Subject: Re: Soldiers breaking step across bridge
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 17:34:56 GMT
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories

In article <1992Nov20.141002.28195@news.columbia.edu>, lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner) writes:
> In article <BxyD5z.L0C@rahul.net> phil@rahul.net (Phil Gustafson) writes:
> >>
> >The Bay and Golden Gate bridges were built at about the same time, and
> >seem quite sound.
> 
> Aren't there some bridges that, like diodes, only have flow in one direction?
> 
> cj "what about diode bridges?" l
> (When all diodes are bridges, there'll only be bridge rectifiers)

Only bridges over troubled waters.
From: Eton Ben-Ami <ebenami@igc.apc.org>
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Date: 19 Nov 92 21:21 PST
Subject: Re: Sex on the Train
Nf-ID: #R:1992Nov18.073104.20693@x.co.uk:-1948976121:cdp:1304000004:000:492
Nf-From: cdp.UUCP!ebenami    Nov 19 21:21:00 1992



  Of course I'm not bragging, but ... Sometime around 1971, taking
  the subway home after a rock concert, and extremely high on any
  number of substances, my girlfriend , Eileen, and I had sex on the
  Queensbound F train between the Lexington Avenue stop and
  23rd/Ely Avenue.  Of course this was in New York City, and due
  to the hour (roughly 1 AM) there were only a few purple eels and
  electric green manta rays to witness the event.   
   Smoking?  No, but we were lit!
  -- Etan
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: Puff the Magic Dragon (was Re: Calvin and Hobbes)
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 09:08:52 GMT

jeffj@yang.earlham.edu (ChaOs) writes:
: 
: At a concert, Peter, Paul and Mary answered this one.  It's _not_ about
: marijuana.
: 
: No, I don't have a direct quote, just a secondhand account.  (Yes, for the
: purposes of this story, I suppose I am a FOAF.  If it's that important, I'll
: have him post, he was at the concert in question.)

No need. I was at a concert where they made that statement. I expect that
a number of other people who post here also heard it for themselves.

Bill
From: fred@page6.pinetree.org (Fred Ennis)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: CDs cheaper to make than cassettes?
Date: 15 Nov 92 04:23:20 GMT
Organization: Page 6, Ottawa, Ontario +1 613-729-9451

> Are there any other blatant examples of charging more for something that is
> actually cheaper to manufacture?
> 
There have been stories of mainframe computer companies selling a slower, 
lower cost model that was nearly identical to the faster, more expensive 
model, except that it had an extra timing loop installed to cause it to 
slow down. If you paid for the upgrade, the tech would come out and 
remove the loop.

Just recently, there was the case of the US Robotics "Sportster" modem, 
which sells for somewhere between a third and one quarter of the price of 
their "Dual Standard" modem. Certain versions of the "Sportster" had a
ROM chip that would provide the same functionality as the dual standard 
if one were to enter the proper string upon powering up the modem.

And, Touch-Tone <tm> service. Many local phone companies charge extra for 
the service, yet it is cheaper for them to handle than the old rotary 
pulse dials! (a Touch-Tone <tm> call goes thorough faster and ties up 
less common equipment, allowing for more calls on the existing equipment)


--
Fred Ennis, fred@page6.pinetree.org
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From: kphillip@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kenneth Phillips)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.aeronautics
Subject: Re: Boomerangs (was: Re: UL used for sitcom plot)
Date: 17 Nov 92 18:07:20 GMT
Reply-To: kphillip@oasys.dt.navy.mil (Kenneth Phillips)
Followup-To: alt.folklore.urban
Organization: Carderock Division, NSWC, Bethesda, MD

In sci.aeronautics, mechalas@gn.ecn.purdue.edu (John P. Mechalas) writes:
>Lift is caused by circulation of the fluid about the body.  In an inviscid
>fluid, there is no circulation, and hence no lift.  Of course, there's no
>drag either.  :)


If you get no lift in inviscid flow, we had better rewrite all the texts
on aerofoil theory..
From: neath@brazil.psych.purdue.edu (Ian Neath)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Tomorrow's Conspiracy Theory, brought to you today.
Date: 19 Nov 92 16:07:47 GMT
Organization: Purdue University

In <1992Nov19.001850.6871@Cadence.COM>, vince@cadence.com (Vince Gibboni)
writes:

[bunch of stuff (TM) deleted]

    two hundred years later, with the benefit of hindsight, we can see
    without question that the general populace should never be entrusted
    with anything more complicated than buying a vowel.

ObUL:  The cost of vowels has not increased

Ian "I'd like to buy a diphthong, Pat" Neath

--
      Ian Neath        | There are four kinds of people in this world:
neath@psych.purdue.edu | cretins, fools, morons and lunatics - U. Eco
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.skeptic,alt.drugs
From: rescorla@rtnmr.chem.yale.edu (Eric Rescorla)
Subject: Re: Proposed FAQ:  LSD Tattoo Urban Legend
Organization: Rescorla for himself.
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 00:31:41 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.214245.674849@zeus.calpoly.edu> dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) writes:
>	Like all good urban legends, there is a thread of truth in the
>magic carpet.  LSD is commonly packaged in sheets of blotter-paper which
>are perforated into squares (approx. 1cm x 1cm) which constitute a
More like .5cmx.5cm.
-Ekr

-- 
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Former chemist now CM400 mechanic                 ekr@eitech.com(preferred)
                "Meet the new boss, same as the old boss."
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Subject: Re: UL in a Time Warp!
Reply-To: lasner@watsun.cc.columbia.edu (Charles Lasner)
Organization: Columbia University
Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 15:41:14 GMT

In article <1992Nov21.051135.20600@unislc.uucp> dw@unislc.uucp (Dan Wright) writes:
>cjl wrote:
>:
>: Cindy's occupation and marital status [are] none of your business, nor is the
>: scheduling of anyone else's life.
>
>Where did the "marital status" bit come from?

You were the one who referred to *it* not me.


>  I don't know on who's
>authority he's speaking when declaring what is or isn't my business, but if
>it makes him happy: I promise not to get mixed up in Cindy's job or love
>life (she's nearly half a world away after all), and not to schedule the
>lives of net people (they'd never let me do it in the first place).
>OK, that tangent having been visited:
>
>: Nor is she the type to make attempts at complaints or personal attacks
>: that have to be obfuscated by rot-13.
>: 
>: bik rot(1)
>
>Bik's got me there.  She probably wouldn't do a thing like that (the attack
>I mean), and if I admire her so, then I shouldn't be doing it myself.  Of
>course rot obfuscation, as bik demonstrated, is merely a ploy or twist to
>add to the article, which is something Cindy might do.

So you admit you did obfuscate, while I don't, other than this BIK example.

>
>Many of cjl's hundreds of quips and middle names went right over my head
>(my family didn't have a TV until I was 11 years old; my parents had me
>reading or doing science experiments instead).  Many more I found to be
>worn out "tastes like chicken" type things.  This is just one man's
>reaction, of course, and humor is a personal thing, but it may be related
>to the FAQ entry:

Sorry you were born in 1981, but some usenet readers are more than eleven
years old.

As to the "tastes like chicken" stuff, don't single me out, as the same
could be said of some Terries, Teds, and Joes etc. as well.

>
>T. Charles Lasner still lives in the '60s.

Yes, I often use my time machine to visit the '90's, as it's an amusing era,
where smug people without a clue sometimes live.  Maybe next I'll visit the
00's and '10's when they grow up a little.

Just because I happen to have good recall of an era you missed, doesn't mean
that this is a good or bad thing.  I can mentally "relive" quite a lot of
history that did happen.  Folklore groups are all about the retelling of
what has happened in the past, as well as debunking misconceptions about it.

I suggest you switch groups to alt.folklore.trendy.fads.of.the.last.six.months.

>
>My apologies for having posted this in a.f.u,  but remember,
>some sites do not get a.f.u.d.

By definition, AFU *is* its own .d group.


>
>  -- Dan Wright
>

cjl (rot 0 mod 26)

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
From: billn@hpcvaac.cv.hp.com (bill nelson)
Subject: Re: UL in a Time Warp!
Organization: Hewlett-Packard Company, Corvallis, Oregon USA
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 21:09:24 GMT

cindy@solan10.solan.unit.no (Cynthia Kandolf) writes:
: >: Yes, i'm back.
: >
: >I'm a big Cindy fan and I'm glad she's "back".
: 
: You know, if i didn't know better, i would swear i was being mocked.

Nah - you are not a turtle. Why would we want to do that? Would you
believe that they actually have a lutefisk festival here in Oregon?
Supposedly, thousands of people get together to eat the stuff. What
is it, intentional sacrifice so the people of Norway will not have
to consume it? 

Bill "Anything that acts like jello should have sugar in it" Nelson
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From: Sean.P.Donahue@dartmouth.edu (Sean P. Donahue)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,sci.skeptic,alt.drugs
Subject: Re: Proposed FAQ:  LSD Tattoo Urban Legend
Date: 21 Nov 92 23:00:29 GMT
Organization: Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
X-Posted-From: InterNews1.0a5@newshost.dartmouth.edu

In article <1992Nov21.214245.674849@zeus.calpoly.edu>
dgross@zeus.calpoly.edu (Dave Gross) writes:

> A young child could happen upon these and have a fatal
> 	"trip"....  Symptoms are:  1. hallucinations, 2. severe
> 	vomiting, 3. mood changes, 4. change of body temperature (5)

-wow! these sounds exactly like the warning signs of witchcraft in
colonial new england!  how appropriate!

Sean Donahue
(sean.p.donahue@dartmouth.edu)
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Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban,alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Jackpotting ATM's for $$$$
From: system@codewks.nacjack.gen.nz (Wayne McDougall)
Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 08:06:01 NZST
Organization: The Code Works Limited, PO Box 10 155, Auckland, New Zealand

jmethot@vicorp.com (John Methot) writes:

> 
> The front-end-loader version was reported in the same article.  In on instanc
> the perps got the excised ATM onto a flatbed truck, but a chase ensued and
> the ATM was left lying in the middle of the street.

There was a rash of these in New Zealand, but they also went after bank 
safes. It was just one gang, and it stopped when the gang was caught. 
The police had a good idea as to te identity of one of the members, as 
a safe cracker had recently been released from prison, and was not 
available to assist the police with their enquiries.

-- 
  Wayne McDougall, BCNU
  This .sig unintentionally left blank.

Hello! I'm a .SIG Virus. Copy me and spread the fun.
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