From: Hal Finney (hal@finney.org)
Date: Fri Jul 26 2002 - 17:39:45 MDT
Amara forwards:
> http://www.lewrockwell.com/wallace/wallace42.html
> Grandma Beats Up Airport Security Guards
> by Bob Wallace
>
> Charges were dropped yesterday against Ruth "Grammy" Gordon, an
> 83-year-old wheelchair-bound grandmother, who was originally charged
> with assault and battery, and assault with a deadly weapon, because an
> altercation she had last week with six airport security guards, that
> left all six hospitalized.
This was a funny story, but it does not exactly have the ring of truth.
And you left off the final two paragraphs from the URL above:
All six guards, employees of the Bullwinkle Security Company,
were taken to Badanov Hospital, treated for minor injuries, and
released. "All of them are okay," said their doctor, who identified
herself only as Natasha. "Just very minor injuries."
The owner of the security firm, a Mr. Big, said he considered his
employees to be "fearless leaders.
I think it's clear that the whole article is a joke, not something that
really happened. Maybe that was obvious to some readers, but I'll bet
other people were fooled like I was, at least for a while.
Oh, I just noticed the names. "Ruth Gordon" and "Bud Cort" were actors
in the cult film, Harold and Maude.
Hal
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