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To: Joe S Pack who wrote (44133)	12/31/2003 10:52:43 PM
From: Raymond Duray	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

Gives you a good sense of well being about airport security. If you can get a body into a wheel well, how about a bomb? Not to worry. This is simply a variant on the stowaways on the TransMancheLink. There, they have a 50:50 chance of surviving the crossing into the UK. Apparently the disinformation about high altitude flight has convinced some desperate souls to try anything to get the land of opportunity.

To: Joe S Pack who wrote (44133)	1/9/2004 6:22:11 PM
From: Joe S Pack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 74559

You get more germs from Victoria's secret than what you bargained for your undies!... May be this is a new inventory management technique being employed due to Bush's recent import tax on bras. cbsnewyork.com Shame On You: Victoria's Secret, Saks Fifth Avenue And Macy's Nov 19, 2003 11:52 pm US/Eastern What CBS 2 found that some of the most famous stores in our area are doing is not only disgusting, it's dangerous. Selling used lingerie. Shame On You went undercover and what we found is shocking. CBS 2’s Arnold Diaz has more on this dirty little secret. Our hidden camera investigation of Victoria's Secret and some other major retailers has uncovered a dangerous and appalling practice that shocked customers when we told them. "It's just disgusting." "I just think it's pretty gross." "This is serious. This is real serious." John, not his real name, is a disgruntled former employee of two Victoria's Secret stores. He came to us with the revolting allegation that it was store practice to take back used underwear and then resell it. "When women would come in, I would be disgusted. I knew they were returning something they wore out to a date or just wore out to a club and it's like, you want another woman to buy this?" said John. Diaz asked John if there were there times that he put back underwear that he was pretty sure was used, "Yeah, all the time, all the time. I don't even like touching it, I hold it by the tag because I don't want to put my hands on that." Could this be true? To find out we bought thong underwear at two Victoria's Secret stores, and at Macy's, Saks Fifth Avenue and Bloomingdale's. We took them home, cut off the sales tags to suggest they'd been worn then marked each pair with two tiny black dots on the labels. Every store took back our thongs without the tags, never asking if they'd been worn. Next our hidden camera caught the sales clerk at a Victoria's Secret attaching a new price tag on our returned thong, hanging it up and then putting it back on the floor for sale. We know it's the same thong because our two dots were on the label. Unbelievably, it’s not illegal in the tri-state area to sell used underwear, but "It could get someone sick." ..... ...