> Reminds me of a story a friend told me. He had an old bicycle he wanted to get > rid of and decided to give it a way. He leaned it up against a telephone > pole near his house and put a sign on the pole that said, "Free." It sat > there for days. He finally took down the sign and wrapped a chain around the > bike and the pole, but didn't lock it. The bike was gone within hours. > (I live in Frogtown, see http://www.ci.stpaul.mn.us/depts/police/prostitution_photos_current.html) List of things taken from my property since moving in April/2002 (no order): 2 35-gallon Walters garbage cans* 1 wooden fence post 1 wooden fence cross member (same incident) 1 K-Mart shopping cart** 5 incidents, my mail * Two seperate incidents, 2nd was recovered by Walters 3 blocks away ** This arrived in my yard one night and I noticed it as I left for work. When I got home it was gone. I welcome our robotic K-Mart cart overlords. after the fence post, I decided to do an experiment. I left these items out, unattended, in parts of my yard with various visibility. 1 dead cell phone, affixed with "Fscked" label (correctly spelled) 1 dead laptop, already gutted, with "Fscked" written outside and across the LCD (to weed out those that might try to pawn it) 1 can (sealed) of Dr. Pepper 1 can (sealed) of baked beans 1 small baggie filled with corn starch 1 small baggie filled with corn starch affixed with "COCAINE" label (clearly moved, but not taken) 1 small baggie filled with corn starch affixed with fake red "EVIDENCE" label 1 3-pack, prophylactics I'm thinking I should place one of the "cocaine" baggies to the overhead power lines, and leave my metal extension ladder nearby. Might help the crime rate by half a percentage point. In reality, of the things that were taken, I can't say for sure that a neighbor or cop wasn't responsible for taking/moving/tossing at least some of these items. And there is a bum that I see periodically going through everyone's trash, so he may have taken the beans... _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list