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Technology Stocks : Discuss Year 2000 Issues -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: C.K. Houston who wrote (7794)	8/6/1999 6:23:00 PM
From: C.K. Houston	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 9818

Raid uncovers Y2K stockpiling effort WASHINGTON (AP) - The neighbors could see something was up. There had been unmarked cars on both sides of the street ``clearly doing surveillance,' one man said. Indeed, an investigation had been in the works for weeks, since a tip came in that big containers were being delivered to a house on a quiet street in the nation's capital. There were worries about the makings of a bomb. Friday morning at 7:30 the raid was on. The street was crowded with agents from the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, with local police and explosives experts, with State Department officials. And. ... ``We did not find sufficient material to warrant a further investigation,' said Brian Burns, a special agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms. They did find 30 empty 55-gallon plastic drums. Residents said they intended to use the drums to store water - out of concern about shortages that might be caused by Year 2000 computer problems on Jan. 1. tampabayonline.net -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Comments from Yourdon's site ... "Your tax dollars at work." "Wonder how many of their neighbors will come knocking if the water goes off now that they know who has water. And thirty barrels! The nerve of those hoarders!" <`We did not find sufficient material to warrant a further investigation,'> "Why not just state the obvious?...We screwed up and we look like idiots and we wasted a ton of money." :-)