From: J Corbally (icorb@indigo.ie)
Date: Sat Jul 27 2002 - 17:55:27 MDT
This is one of those stories that while you know it's not true, you wish it
was true. And you wish that had been your grandma.
I guess the moral of the story is don't screw with people who appear
frail. Hell, look at Master Yoda!
James....
>Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2002 16:39:45 -0700
>From: "Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org>
>Subject: RE: group based judgment
>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
>------------------------------
"If you can't take a little bloody nose, maybe you ought to go back home and
crawl under your bed. It's not safe out here. It's wondrous, with treasures
to satiate desires both subtle and gross. But it's not for the timid."
-Q, Star Trek:TNG episode 'Q Who'
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