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apexdrtran
07-02-2010
04:08 PM ET (US)
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Im one of the seven i just thought i would tell u all that we got a $50 fine out of it
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PrelKikam
08-29-2007
04:22 AM ET (US)
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enter text? test, sorry
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MKalus  04-05-2003
01:16 PM ET (US)
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Putting up signs is an "act of terrorism"? Hey good, I hope they can arrest all those ad people who plaster every non-moving (and lately moving) thing with their signs.
I am all for it.
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carbolic 04-05-2003
02:48 AM ET (US)
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It's kind of funny that the quote is "all your BASE are belong to us" - it seems Iraq has only one base.
And I have to think that All Your Base is as timeless as the Smiley :)
- ahh - never goes out of style.
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reve
04-04-2003
06:16 PM ET (US)
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> A friend of mine thinks these guys have a good case for false arrest, saying that it's not illegal to quote lines from a video game even if others find them threatening, but I think it's the other way around
yeah. I mean, what if you shook your first and busted out with a "bitch, i'm gonna fuck you up!" or something and later said you were just quoting from GTA?
but it's funny how apt the zero wing thing is for this situation. god knows I couldn't help but make an all your oil are belong to us video.
(at http://www.monsterkitty.org/oil/ )
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nathant 04-04-2003
03:20 PM ET (US)
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Next on the terrorist word-list: Kilroy Was Here
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Red Headed Ba*d
04-04-2003
03:18 PM ET (US)
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"The Barney Fife sheriff thought he had hit the jackpot, and spent three days investigating."
Hee hee! All I can think of right now is the Arlo Guthrie song "Alice's Restaurant", and Officer Obie's "twenty seven eight-by-ten colour glossy photographs with the circles and the arrows and the paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was to be used as evidence against us."
Kid, has you rehabilitated yourself?
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__x 04-04-2003
02:31 PM ET (US)
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So Doc', you have my curiosity what was that nonsense word?
I think as dumb as that is in a time of "orange alert" the use of poor English is quite clever.
I remember driving by a car in Seattle with Japanese license plates, occupied by four green hair "punk" Japanese men, sporting a large window sticker loudly proclaiming in dripping blood "I no scary". (I think it was a poor "No Fear" rip. As a testament to my simpleness I still laugh when I think of it.)
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Dr. X
04-04-2003
02:02 PM ET (US)
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If you don't know what it means, it must be a terrorist threat?
Pretty much. My grandparents (both over 80 years old) got pulled out of line at the airport and harrassed by TSA goons, because Gramps addressed Grams with a nonsense-word pet name while he was putting his gear in the X-ray machine. The goons thought it might be a secret code to launch an attack. As Dave Barry would say, I am not making this up.
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Jerry Kindall 04-04-2003
01:18 PM ET (US)
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"You have no chance to survive" sounds pretty damn threatening to me, and the rest of it, if you don't know it's a poor attempt at translation from the Japanese, sounds like it could be the work of a madman, and I think most people would naturally find that unnerving.
If they had used the line "someone set up us the bomb" I bet they would have been charged with making a terrorist threat.
A friend of mine thinks these guys have a good case for false arrest, saying that it's not illegal to quote lines from a video game even if others find them threatening, but I think it's the other way around -- saying they're just lines from a video game is a pretty feeble defense when you're going around threatening people, even if you didn't intend to threaten anyone.
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JeffFurry 04-04-2003
01:10 PM ET (US)
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I don't know how much I'd believe that "sending threatening-seeming letters to businesses" accurately reflects the actual events. Sure, the action of the cops looks plausible with the explanation from the Sturgis Journal, and I'm sure the cops in question believed what they were doing made sense, but it's pretty clear to me, reading between the lines, that the cops were over reacting.
Not that the pranksters were all that smart, either. I mean, "All your base" is weird, but "you have no chance to survive, make your time" is a bit "threatening-seeming."
So now it goes to court, and wastes lots of time and money, etc, etc. *sigh*
Waider writes: "Actually, reading the article I'd have to side with the cops on this one ... Sending anonymous threatening-seeming letters to businesses like banks is pretty dumb behaviour, even if it /is/ protected under the much abused Amendment One. Sure, all us savvy netophiles recognise it as a joke, but, you know, not everyone's a savvy netophile."
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GD
04-04-2003
01:05 PM ET (US)
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In the little town I grew up in, which happened to be near a mountain named Twin Peaks, someone posted signs reading "Who killed Laura Palmer?"
The Barney Fife sheriff thought he had hit the jackpot, and spent three days investigating.
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roboto
04-04-2003
12:07 PM ET (US)
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Here is a link to the archived story.
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Cam
04-04-2003
10:19 AM ET (US)
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Well, it's Michigan. What do you expect? I am so glad to be out of that backwards, lame-ass, close-minded state (with the city of Ann Arbor being the only notable exception).
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Red Headed Ba*d
04-04-2003
10:16 AM ET (US)
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How is it "threatening" to post signs bearing messages that much of the general public does not understand?
If you don't know what it means, it must be a terrorist threat?
Or maybe Homeland Security hysteria is just a convenient excuse for a frustrated local cop to spank some of the local kids (much like airport security drones who have been asserting themselves by going out of their way to harass air travellers in recent months).
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Waider 04-04-2003
09:57 AM ET (US)
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Actually, reading the article I'd have to side with the cops on this one, at least for an initial arrest. Sending anonymous threatening-seeming letters to businesses like banks is pretty dumb behaviour, even if it /is/ protected under the much abused Amendment One. Sure, all us savvy netophiles recognise it as a joke, but, you know, not everyone's a savvy netophile.
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