Mulling over George Pope to Steve Asher 05 Jan 2003

Hi George!

 SA> A recent noteworthy case was of someone calling emergency number
 SA> to report a dead body concealed in bushes outside a police station,
 SA> several times. In frustration, the caller finally stuck a note on
 SA> a police vehicle at another station with written details of where
 SA> to find the body. Makes you feel real confident when calling the
 SA> "terrorist hotline" to report some suspicious activity.

 GP> Not that the terrorist hotlines are intended to actually DO
 GP> anything, besides create new channels of taxpayer cash flow among
 GP> the beaurocracies! :P

The idea is to confuse people with heaps of un-memorable numbers for
different policing things. One for emergencies, which has been 000
for as long as I can remember, another for police response, which
was recently changed from police attendance (this is the number you
call when you are hoping for a patrol car to attend & instead get
a civilian operator offering you a crime report number for the
insurance). Apparently the terror hotline has been busy getting
fake reports & "suggestions for imnprovement". The anti-terror
advert comes on TV every few minutes, but doesn't give much insight
into terrorists or their tactics.

 SA> I think they're too busy patrolling McDonald's outlets & getting
 SA> free burgers to bother with real crime. :)

 GP> BURGERS!!! I guess we, at the A&W I used to work at were never
 GP> really covered -- all my boss gave was free coffee & pop! :P

Luxury! We had to buy our own coffee & pop. Cold water was supplied,
together with a fridge, oven, kettle etc in the lunchroom.

 SA> Here, they often don't show up; just give you the crime report number
 SA> over the phone!

 GP> Even worse!  I suppose that's coming here, too! :P

No, after you've been burgled & had your PC pinched, you will need to
go to the local library & log onto to their website & fill out the
report yourself!

 SA>  GP> Is that all the cops are now, are public-paid investigators for
 SA>  GP> rich, private insurance companies? :P
 SA>
 SA> And guards for McDonalds outlets :)

 GP> There ya go! (I thought it was Doughnut(or DONUT, in the U.S.)
 GP> places!) :P

There aren't many of those here, & MacD's usually is open til late
or all night. 

 SA>  GP> When did this happen?  (that the police stopped working for the
 SA>  GP> public/taxpayers, and started working for the private/rich, who
 SA>  GP> usually don't pay taxes, if they can help it!)? :(
 SA>
 SA> Watch out, George - that's very close to a thought crime! :)

 GP> Oh, I've committed a lot more than THAT for a thought crime!
 GP> (that's why, I suppose, I've been blocked from MSN again! heh)

Probably some spammer using a dictionary attack killed their servers.

Cheers, Steve..

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