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To: SSP who wrote (47653)	5/19/2000 3:54:00 PM
From: Jim Bishop	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 150070

DMEC like I said earlier....

To: SSP who wrote (47653)	5/19/2000 6:24:00 PM
From: StocksDATsoar	Respond to of 150070

D.Sirk goes crazy....LOL! Angry U.S. shareholder halts meeting with grenade HOUSTON, May 18 - A man wielding a hand grenade brought a sudden halt to a stockholders? meeting in Houston on Wednesday, sending terrified investors rushing for the exit, but the device did not explode and nobody was hurt. CNBC Business & Wall Street Journal POLICE ARRESTED THE man, identified as Andre Piazza, a 72-year-old Houston resident and former company employee, and said he would be charged with making a terrorist threat. The incident occurred at the annual stockholders? meeting of oil drilling contractor R&B Falcon Corp.(FLC.N) which was being held in the Omni Hotel on Houston?s West side. As the meeting opened, Piazza ? a well-known figure at the company?s shareholder meetings ? started arguing with Chairman and Chief Executive Paul Lloyd about the company?s finances. Ignoring requests to save his remarks until later, Piazza rose to his feet and drew the grenade from a bag. ?Do you know what this is? This saved my life in Vietnam,? he told Lloyd as about 60 stockholders bolted for the doors. Piazza then removed the safety pin but there was no explosion and he was overpowered by company officials who called police. Bomb squad officers called to the scene said the grenade was inert and could not have exploded. No other explosive devices were found at the scene. After the meeting resumed Lloyd told stockholders that Piazza was a former R&B Falcon employee who had been laid off from one of the company?s drilling rigs in the 1970s. Piazza had voiced dissent at previous stockholder meetings but had not previously made any threats, Lloyd said. ¸ 2000 Reuters Limited. All rights reserved. Republication or redistribution of Reuters content is expressly prohibited without the prior written consent of Reuters.