POL/PSYCH: If true, a chastening example of hysteria among

Michael M. Butler (butler@comp*lib.org)
Wed, 24 Sep 1997 20:09:39 -0700


Apologies if this seems too much of a Basics matter, but I think it bears
on Extropian issues, to wit, dealing with people who have their minds made
up you are a danger to them...

MMB

>Date: Wed, 24 Sep 97 09:52 PDT
>From: The _what_ stops _where?_ <buck@satyr.sylvan.com>
>To: get-a-grip@sylvan.com
>Cc: butler@comp-lib.org, kathbob@flash.net
>Subject: For the Sock Puppets...
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>What you believe shapes what you perceive.
>
>"I promise my mext post will be funny. I promise my next post will be..."
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>MMB
>
> > From: freematt@coil.com (Matthew Gaylor)
> > Subject: Florida Police Anti-Gun Hysteria-Florida man shot for holding
sock
> > Content-Length: 1457
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> > From: pmartin@juniper.East.Sun.COM (Paul Martin - Sun Microsystems Labs
BOS)
> > To: freematt@coil.com
> > Subject: weapon mania
> >
> > For anyone who doesn't think the anti-gun hysteria has gone to far...
> >
> > *** Florida man shot for holding sock
> >
> > A Florida man who covered his hand with a sock to work on his car was
> > recovering in hospital Tuesday after being shot by police who
> > apparently thought he had a gun. Bobby Whipple, 27, had wrapped his
> > hand in a dark sock while working on his car Saturday, prompting at
> > least two people to alert police to a man wielding a gun. After
> > receiving the reports, 14 officers surrounded Whipple and five,
> > including one using a shotgun that shoots pellets, opened fire after
> > he did not respond to calls to put his "weapon" down. See full story
> > at http://www.infobeat.com/stories/cgi/story.cgi?id=4862474-d9c
> >
> > Now if this happened to you, would you be able to figure out they were
> > talking about the sock on your hand?
> >
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