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

[haude@physnet.uni-hamburg.de (Daniel Haude)]

On Wed, 4 Aug 1999 23:34:06 -0400,
  donald tees <donald@willmack.com> wrote
  in Msg. <7ob156$t2t$1@news.igs.net>
> Thieves steal what they can sell quickly.  Preferably in the first 15-20
> minutes.  What they took reflects who they were selling to.

There was a quite sad incident at the Physics dept. of my University.
Apparently, someone had packed a scientific instrument worth some $20K
into a Sony 19" monitor carton. The carton plus content got stolen,
obviously by someone who thought it had still the monitor in it. I
gathered as much from the dozens of desperate notes tacked to every door
of the institute offering (in the end) to GIVE the thief a brand-new 19"
monitor if he only brought back the instrument (some interference
spectrometer IIRC). I don't know if they ever got the thing back. 

--Daniel

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