On (01 Jan 03) Steve Asher wrote to George Pope...
 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.

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

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

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

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

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

 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 :)

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

 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! :)

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

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