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Re: This is a stupid waste of taxpayer money. said by N10Cities:
Exactly.....doesn't the police force have some robberies or murder cases to work?
Apparently not... you'll note that in the story, it mentions that one of the "perps" was already run out of Sylvania when the police chief there set up a hidden camera sting to find out who was taking coffee and creamer from (I assume) a government office break room.
Doesn't seem like high crime is their concern much... they LIKE their coffee and their internet connection. =) |
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 dnoyeBFerrous Phallus
join:2000-10-09
Southfield, MI | No one was ever charged with the coffee crime so it seems strange to even list it. Plus their home addresses being listed makes me feel the paper/website is in on the persecution.
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dnoyeB
"Then said I, Wisdom [is] better than strength: nevertheless the poor man's wisdom [is] despised, and his words are not heard. " Ecclesiastes 9:16
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 roamer1sticking it out at you
join:2001-03-24
Atlanta, GA
| The newspaper and the cable company are under common ownership...
»www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dl···ry=ABOUT
(Quite a few other companies own both newspapers and cable companies -- the most well-known examples are Cox now, and Scripps-Howard before they sold their cable systems to Comcast.)
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| If you dig deep enough, I'm sure you will see this type of *co-conspiracy* in several areas of media, business, and government.
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-= ok, who turned out the lights? =- |
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Only one police car at Dunkin Donuts shop...
Better send more cars/cops to "guard Dunkin Donuts" just in case they might get robbed... |
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| Jester has a point although he seemed to have a little to much of an outburst. The law is the law reguardless and that doesn't make the police officers bad or wrong to carry it out. They don't make the law. Criminals make the law (hehe or so it seems sometimes). There is a big difference between owning slaves and stealing the bandwidth of everyone around you and breaking the law. Also I didn't seem to recall the article saying anything about these guys altering their own computers. It said they were uncapping; which, for those of you who don't really know what they are talking about when you post here, means (in short)that they had to get in and modify their cable modem! They had to alter the actual properties of the modem not their computer! Now the real question that everyone should be asking is this: Did they buy their own cable modem or were they just leasing one from their cable provider? One way they would be uncapping, stealing, and altering equipment that doesn't belong to them. The other way they would only be uncapping and stealing. Either way they should be severely punished for it because I know if they don't more and more people will do it and our cable will slow down so bad that dial-up will be a wave of the future. I know that if someone in my area did that I and nothing severe was done about it I might have to break the law and do some cyber crime to their computer to make sure they never get on again. |
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said by dnoyeB:
No one was ever charged with the coffee crime so it seems strange to even list it. Plus their home addresses being listed makes me feel the paper/website is in on the persecution.
Of coures the Toledo Blade is all for the prosecution; who do you thinks owns Buckeye cable? |
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