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Politics : Sharks in the Septic Tank -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: epicure who wrote (1808)	1/20/2001 10:52:02 AM
From: Poet	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 82486

OT (as if anything on this thread could be: My mother-in-law sent us this list of remarks that have actually been written on patients' hospital charts. Here are some highlights: "Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year" "On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared." "She has no rigors or shaking chills, but her husband states that she was very hot in bed last night." "Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch" "He is numb from his toes down" "Discharge status: Alive but without my permission." "The patient has no previous history of suicides." "Rectal examination revealed a normal sized thyroid." "Examination of genitalia reveal that he is circus sized." :Large brown stool ambulating in the hall." "Patient has two teenaged children but no other abnormalities"

To: epicure who wrote (1808)	1/20/2001 11:19:25 AM
From: Don Pueblo	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 82486

I myself, a male, was the recipient of a really nasty obscene call about three years ago. We had just moved in to a new place, and my wife took a call and hung up. She said it was some freak. The phone rang again, and it was the same guy. I answered the phone. From what he was saying, it was obvious that he had me confused with someone at the old number, and that some woman at the old number was involved in his fantasy. His conversation took a very nasty and violent tone. I mean very nasty and very violent. For some reason, he assumed that I was gay. What I did was record the entire conversation, since I had a recorder with a microphone for the telephone. I let him go on for about two minutes and then told him he had me and my wife confused with someone else. He refused to believe it and kept up the chatter. It was really quite ugly. Then, I invited him to come over and speak to me personally and asked him if he wanted my address. He said no and kept going. Finally, when he was done, I simply used the telephone code to find out his phone number and called the police. When the cop showed up, I told him that I had recorded the conversation and that I knew that that was probably illegal, but that I would erase the tape after he had listened to it. He listened to the whole thing and then noted down the phone number where the call originated, told my wife that she should not worry, shook my hand and thanked me, and left. I can see how this sort of thing would be a most unpleasant experience for anyone. A cheap recorder costs about twenty bucks, and a microphone is about three bucks. In the state I live in, it's legal to record someone as long as you tell them you are recording them.