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To: long-gone who wrote (46496)	1/1/2000 3:11:00 PM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116805

Y2K Doomsayers (Butt of Many Jokes) Updated 3.31 a.m. ET (0831 GMT) January 1, 2000 By Patrick Riley NEW YORK — They may be breathing a big sigh of relief that civilization's still standing. Or they may still be in hiding. Ray Stubblebine/Reuters Picture <A man carries a Bible with a sign reading 'Be wise and repent'> But those who expected the worst from Y2K are already becoming the butt of jokes and derisive told-ya-so's as New Year rolls in glitch-free. A once-serious Internet Y2K discussion group, misc.survivalism, broke down Friday into a humor forum, with participants filing wildly false "situation reports." "Total chaos here," wrote a supposed New York City resident. "All ATMs appear drained; lines (on upper East Side at least) at ATMs are 1.5 to 2 blocks long. "Police can't keep order, Pataki has called in National Guard. No food anywhere — all supermarkets have been looted, some are on fire. Sporadic small arms fire and occasional explosions. Sounds primarily like 9 mils., .45 ACPs and occasional 30-06 and .308 as well. In the street outside my window I can see two bodies; must be many more. "Crowds in Times Square have been gassed and fired on with rubber bullets. ... Roving gangs of marauders are stalking the streets; many doorman have been slain and wealthy apartments pillaged. "[...] I'll keep posting till power and phone lines go out." Some joked back, but not all appreciated it. "You can get back under your bridge now, troll," wrote one disgruntled survivalist. Others reminded that Y2K glitches might well arise more gradually over the next few weeks and months. "Y2K is not one sudden shut down!" read a post entitled "Y2K TRUTH." "It is a slow death by the cut of a thousand razors. What is unseen immediately ... will be watched over time as computer systems slowly encounter residual problems. Chain Link Effect. Do not drop your guard. Perhaps the calm before the storm?" But the joking continued. Another writer on the survivalist board reported "numerous explosions and gunfire nearby [and a] mad rush to consume food and drink," before declaring, "Oh, that's me." A few posters speculated the news media was covering up the true extent of the Y2K glitches. Off the Internet, some were blaming the media for just the opposite: getting people too worked up about the potential for disaster. "I think the media hyped it up a lot," said Shevhann Stith, 19, of Queens, New York. But in the end, despite years of media saturation, word of the dreaded millennium bug failed to reach 23-year-old New York City grocery store worker Ala Ahmed. "I got no idea about it," he said.