Duncan Frissell's "Blob" rides again...

[Robert Hettinga <rah@shipwright.com>]

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Date: Fri, 13 Nov 1998 08:56:02 -0800
To: rah@shipwright.com
From: Somebody
Subject: Guns on the net..


oooo guns on Ebay... this guy is such a dickhead.

http://www.msnbc.com/news/214304.asp


A simple search of offerings listed on the Web site on Nov. 11 and 12
revealed the following: two cases of hypodermic needles, five sets of
Kevlar body armor, 33 AK-47 semi-automatic rifles, four lots of
“Talon” flesh-shredding ammo, one box of contraband Cuban
cigars, 11 lots of brass knuckles, 148 lots of federally banned switchblade
knives, six UZI submachine guns, one Mas 49/56 sniper rifle, three night
vision rifle scopes, one $3,500 pair of Leopard skin pants, a CDRom
containing the text of The Anarchist’s Cookbook as well as
instructions for how to build cable signal descramblers, how to obtain
Microsoft software for free, and how to get college degrees for free, 27
lots of drug accessories and head-shop paraphernalia, and 1,217 lots of
ivory items including a “bag of elephant ivory dust.”
(Microsoft is a partner in MSNBC.)


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Robert A. Hettinga <mailto: rah@philodox.com>
Philodox Financial Technology Evangelism <http://www.philodox.com/>
44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA
"... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity,
[predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to
experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire'