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David Williams wrote: In my neighborhood these days (in those days I was in Los Angeles, a lovely town if Sacramento was plowed back into the swamp on which it was built) in New Jersey, the locals remember how my current wife took a baseball bat to to the guy crowbarring open the back door -- he bruised her knee a bit, she put him out. The local cops were going to book her for child abuse (17 years old, 5'11", 190#), but they eased up when inquiries brought out that when his folks brought him with them from Brazil a decade back they forgot to check him (and themselves) in with the INS. They also tried to confiscate the baseball bat, but she reminded one of the cops of the things he used to do when she babysat him as a child. A couple years back, when we were having part of the attic finished, the building inspector noticed the number of computers and tried for a bribe based on his (incorrect at the time) assumption that we must be running a business out of the house. Lisa went to high school with the jerk. That part was cleared up no problem. (The bribe to get the building permit was merely the way these things are done here in Hudson County, the scale is relatively consistent). Gods, but I want to get out of this hellhole and move to Wyoming. -- Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/> When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright