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

["Paul Bealing" <paul@pmb.co.nz>]

A few years ago we were putting security into a school after a break in.

They opened 20-30 PCs and took RAM and CPUs, that's all.

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Paul Bealing
www.pmb.co.nz


Tom Maier <tmaier@bitstorm.net> wrote in message
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> gumby@zembu.com (D. Henkel-Wallace) wrote:
>
>
> >...all the monitors were gone!
> >
> >
> >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!?"
> >
>
> 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
>