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Re: Digital Fingerprinting
On Tue, 12 Sep 1995, Peter Trei wrote:
> > Finding the mail mixed in there is evidence that supports the "charge"
> > but surely can be rebutted. When I was practicing in a small town c.
> > 1984, people would be summoned (sent a paper telling them to show up) to
> > court for illegal dumping if their mail was found with other trash, old
> > refrigerators, etc., in a creek somewhere. Those charged could always
> > put on proof that Billy Bob's garbage service picked up their trash ...
>
> > The sentence was almost always to go and pick up some multiple of the
> > garbage found and take it to the landfill.
>
> This was Stockbridge, in MA, right :-?
No, it was in Western Kentucky with a week or two of a family's garbage
and maybe a worn out appliance or two. No garbage pickup provided by the
county; private haulers expensive; dropping much at the landfill both
inconvenient and "unnecessary" given the availability of hard to find
valleys and creeks.
EBD
> That's what we did, and drove back to the church, had a
> thanksgiving dinner that couldn't be beat, went to sleep and didn't
> get up until the next morning, when we got a phone call from officer
> Obie. Said "Kid, we found your name on an envelope at the bottom of a
> half a ton of garbage, and just wanted to know if you had any
> information bout it". I said "Yes Sir Officer Obie, I cannot tell a
> lie, I put that envelope under that garbage."
> (c) Arlo Guthrie
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> Peter Trei
> Senior Software Engineer
> Purveyor Development Team
> Process Software Corporation
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