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To: LLCF who wrote (29481)	3/5/2003 5:51:34 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Don't get made with your crappy computer. Enraged Computer Owner Shoots Up Machine The Associated Press Wednesday, March 5, 2003; 3:53 PM washingtonpost.com George Doughty hung his latest hunting trophy on the wall of his Sportsman's Bar and Restaurant. Then he went to jail. The problem was the trophy was Doughty's laptop computer. He shot it four times, as customers watched, after it crashed once too often. He was jailed on suspicion of felony menacing, reckless endangerment and the prohibited use of weapons. "It's sort of funny, because everybody always threatens their computers," said police Lt. Rick Bashor, seconds before his own police computer froze at police headquarters. Doughty was released Monday evening after spending a night in jail and is due in court Wednesday. In police reports, Doughty said that he realized afterward that he shouldn't have shot his computer but at the time it seemed like the right thing to do.

To: LLCF who wrote (29481)	3/5/2003 5:53:52 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 74559

Thought police is in full action in this land of Shrub. news.bbc.co.uk Peace T-shirt' row sparks protest Protesters sit in the food court of the Crossgates Mall Protesters want an explanation About 100 people have marched through a shopping mall near New York in protest after a man wearing a T-shirt advocating peace was arrested. Stephen Downs was briefly detained on Monday, after he refused to take off a T-shirt saying 'Give a Peace a Chance'. Local security guards at the Crossgates Mall in Guilderland called police, and the 61-year-old lawyer was taken away in handcuffs and charged with trespassing. Mr Downs pleaded not guilty and has been released, but has to attend a court hearing on 17 March. "We just want to know what the policy is and why it's being randomly enforced, " protest organiser Erin O'Brien was quoted as saying by the Washington Post newspaper. 'Wrong actions' Mr Downs said he had just purchased the T-Shirt at the mall when the incident happened. We don't care what they [Mr Downs and his son] have on their shirts, but they were asked to leave the property, and it's private property James Murley, Guilderland police officer "I was in the food court with my son when I was confronted by two security guards and ordered to either take off the T-shirt or leave the mall," he said. Mr Downs said that when the police arrived they tried to convince him he was wrong in his actions, before making the arrest. According to the criminal complaint, Mr Downs was charged with trespassing "in that he knowingly enter(ed) or remain(ed) unlawfully upon premises". "We don't care what they [Mr Downs and his son] have on their shirts," local police officer James Murley was quoted by Washington Post as saying. "But they were asked to leave the property, and it's private property". If convicted, Mr Downs faces up to a year in prison.