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daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (TruthMonger)
Tue Nov 18 22:44:08 1997
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:01:20 -0600
From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
* Life Imitates TV: (1) A Bangkok hotel worker was convicted in
July of stealing from guests' safe-deposit boxes by rubbing his nose
oil onto the buttons so he could check later to see which buttons
had been pushed by the guest to open the safe. He said he learned
the trick from watching the TV show "MacGyver."
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To read these News of the Weird newspaper columns from the past six
months, go to http://www.nine.org/notw/notw.html
(That site contains no graphics, no photos, no video clips, no
audio. Just text. Deal with it.)
