Re: humorous if off topic (follows on to: Byte Magazine: 18 Vintage issues...)

["donald tees" <donald@willmack.com>]

Thieves steal what they can sell quickly.  Preferably in the first 15-20
minutes.  What they took reflects who they were selling to.

Tom Maier wrote in message <37a8e1fa.14299007@news.bitstorm.net>...
>gumby@zembu.com (D. Henkel-Wallace) wrote:
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>>...all the monitors were gone!
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>>We had much amusement imagining the reactions of the fences when the
>>theives tried to dispose of the goods: "Hey, where's the TV channel
>>dial!?"
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>I got burgled about 6 years ago and the thieves tore
>the place apart and made off with about $300 worth
>of stuff.  They took my 10 year old broken TV and a
>one gallon jar of pennies, but they left behind my
>$2500 computer and my wife's $3300 computer.
>
>What ever happened to those smart cat-burglars
>they show on the TV shows?  Did those ever exist
>or was that an urban legend?
>
>Tom
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