[117801] in Cypherpunks
Re: Everyone is a felon
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Harmon Seaver)
Fri Sep 10 18:34:41 1999
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Date: Fri, 10 Sep 1999 17:13:50 -0500
From: Harmon Seaver <hseaver@arrowhead.lib.mn.us>
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To: "James A. Donald" <jamesd@echeque.com>
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"James A. Donald" wrote:
> My son is currently facing a federal felony charge for possession of a
> pocket knife with a blade 2 and 5/8th of an inch long on a university
> campus. Go measure your pocket knives.
>
Don't know how they could charge him with a federal felony --
there are no fed laws regarding blade length, or much of any fed laws
regarding knives except for switchblades. Sounds like some overzealous
brain-dead cop on crack weirded out on him.
Speaking of brain-dead cops -- just saw a piece in the paper
about some NewHampshire dude suing because he was turned down for a cop
job because he scored too high on their entrance intelligence exam. So
went to work at the local prison as a screw instead.
