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Date Posted: 21:07:11 04/01/04 Thu
Author: Maye
Author Host/IP: 66.188.117.197
Subject: The cops had assault rifles. And I'm thinking.....we have assault rifles in Madison?
In reply to: wwolfe 's message, "I heard a story from your neck of the woods, this morning, Maye." on 11:11:52 04/01/04 Thu

I was driving home from work, and all of a sudden I'm seeing helicopters. And the other side of the highway is completely jammed with people, meanwhile my side of the highway, which is usually equally jammed, is fairly empty. Then I see like 8 cop cars lined up alongside the highway, with cops standing next to the cars with assault rifles pointed at the marsh (I'm not sure it's really a "marsh" per se....it's really just a marshy area that's not very big. It's inbetween one of our lakes and the highway). The whole thing was very surreal.

On top of that, there has been like no new information released about this armed man who's allegedly roaming the countryside, where the girl has been for 4-5 days, nothing. The whole thing is just a little off, if you ask me. I'll be interested to hear the whole story.

And here I thought it was Butterfly VOUCHER. Well, BOUCHER, now that....no, wait, that still makes no sense. Anyways, I thought she was really brave to get up there all on her own, but she didn't do much to hype up the crowd. Which could be why Howie Day thought we were too quiet, got pissy, got arrested, and had to be in court today. Hmmm. Wonder if he can use that as a defense?

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[> [> It's the old "Failure to 'Woo hoo!'" defense. -- wwolfe, 13:34:57 04/05/04 Mon (161.149.63.110)

Used, I believe, by Axel Rose when prosecuted for gobbing on many audiences who've failed to reach levels of excitement he found acceptable.

Man, that would be one weird scene to come across while driving home. It reminds me of the time I was driving at night on Sunset Boulevard and I came around a curve to find a helicopter hovering a few feet above a house, spotlight shining down onto it, with cops all around. Apparently, we take unpaid traffic tickets *very* seriously here in LA.


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[> [> [> Did you hear she made the whole damn thing up? -- Maye, 21:21:25 04/05/04 Mon (66.168.28.66)

You might have, it's been on the national news and stuff. We've got police with assault rifles, helicoptors with infrared cameras, dogs and people out combing all of freaking Madison, her family was terrified, all her friends and neighbors came here from Minnesota to frantically look for her for like 5 days....

AND SHE MADE THE WHOLE THING UP!

She went out, bought a knife and duct tape and rope and stuff, went to live in the marshes, then told people she'd been abducted! Unreal.

This weekend at UW campus, they had a "Welcome Back Audrey....NOT" party. Let's hear it for sarcasm! And the ability of college students to find absolutely any reason to go drinking. WOO HOO!


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[> [> [> [> Holy crap. -- wwolfe, 14:34:48 04/06/04 Tue (161.149.63.106)

It's not like a person needs an EXCUSE to live in a marsh...

This is similar to a situation that occurred on a local college campus. A teacher who was very heavily involved in every kind of PC crusade you could name returned to her car in a campus parking lot after some meeting of activists one night to find epithets spray-painted on the hood and the windows smashed. She reported it and the police investigated it as a hate crime, only to find proof that she did it herself!! She's now being proescuted and fired.

I guess she could always go live in a marsh in Wisconsin.


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