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To: long-gone who wrote (78226)	10/10/2001 10:01:37 AM
From: Richnorth	Respond to of 116752

The <IRS> center, which processed 20 million individual and business tax returns from seven states, has had about 20 similar incidents in past 5 years. This is bad, very bad indeed. I am afraid there will be more of such incidents elsewhere with maybe some hoax contributions from perverse copycats. The reports have made me cancel my trips to Florida and Louisiana. BTW, in Canada, a taxpayer was once required to cough up $107.53 in back taxes to Revenue Canada. He decided to have some fun. So he collected this amount in Canadian pennies, packaged them in a tight-fitting box, and mailed the package to Revenue Canada. Because of its weight, the officials at Revenue Canada thought it was a bomb. There were many red faces when it was found to be a non-bomb. Then the counting of the pennies began. At the rate of 2 pennies per second by one person, it took nearly 5400 seconds or 1 hour and 30 minutes to count them all. Then there was a recount. Quite a mean hoax, eh?