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To: JakeStraw who wrote (8279)1/5/1999 11:46:00 AM
From: SIer formerly known as Joe B.  Read Replies (2) of 62551
 
The line forms behind me on this one.
I'd pay $87.72, to throw a pie in Bill's face,
in a heart beat.
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Tuesday January 5 11:21 AM ET

Bill Gates pie throwers fined by Belgian court
dailynews.yahoo.com
BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Two people who threw custard pies at Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates in Brussels last February
have been fined by a Belgian court.

The two, who were not identified, were fined by the Police Court on Monday, a spokeswoman for the Public Prosecutor's
Office said on Tuesday. She said she could not detail the amount of the fines.

Belgian newspaper La Derniere Heure reported that the two pie throwers had each received fines of 3,000 Belgian francs
($87.72).

Gates was visiting Brussels following a meeting with world and business leaders in Switzerland when the attack occurred.

On Monday in Amsterdam, Dutch Finance Minister Gerrit Zalm was the victim of a similar pie-throwing attack at the opening
of the Amsterdam Stock Exchange to inaugurate trading in the euro.

The attackers were from a group using the acronym TAART (Against authoritarian anti-revolutionary characters), which
means cake in Dutch. They distributed leaflets saying the euro was anti-democratic and only beneficial to companies.

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