BS: Noted with very little comment

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Liz the Squeak
Date: 12 Aug 06 - 06:53 AM

Imagine..... 600 cell phones all with different ringtones.....

COooooooooooooooooooooolllll!!!!!!

You could get so many people diving in bags and pockets for their own phone when they think it's theirs ringing....

Won't work with me... I seriously doubt anyone has my ring tones! (except the person who sent them to me.... and he never phones me anyway!).

LTS

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:52 PM

Yea but having 600 of the noisy buggers is enough to arrest anyone for isn't it, Greg? Even if they are not using them for nefarious purposes they need to make a hell of a lot of calls saying "I'M ON THE BUS..." Certainly need locking up by my book.

Good food for thought as well, gnu. Wonder if the Immams have told them they will go to heaven with 40 virgins if they die during a molten lead enema?

Cheers

DtG

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 04:27 PM

ansd they can be used to spread paranoia...

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Bert
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 03:49 PM

A map that shows locations of Wal-Mart stores can be purchased at Wal-Mart.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: gnu
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 02:46 PM

Bail? Jail? Fuck that. CIA the bastards. And, when every last iota of info is had, vanish 'em without a trace. Do process, with extreme prejudice.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Greg F.
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 01:59 PM

...extremely nasty things you could use a cell phone to initiate. Ugly things...

Yes, indeed! REALLY ugly like:

- carrying on a conversation in a theater when everyone else is trying to watch the show.

- a loud conversation in a restaurant describing your last colonoscopy

- etc.

But you REALLY want to watch out for those devilist I-Pods. Pretty soon possession will get you s free trip to Guantanamo.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Uncle_DaveO
Date: 11 Aug 06 - 10:20 AM

Peace said, in part:

IMO, I expect that the phones would be used to time the releases of bio agents.

"Expect"?? Sure, that is one possibility, but we have nothing in the story that suggests that particular threat. One can "expect" that the phones were for nefarious purposes, but that particular one is no more likely than several others.

A bail of any amount is ludicrous, IMO. The money is there for them to skip and go elsewhere. Who's using what for brains?

I worked for 36 years for a US District Court, and I know that there are rules the court has to go by; the judge is not a free agent in what to set, or whether to set bond at all. I'm sure the prosecutor asked the court for an extremely high or no bond at all, but probably wasn't able to make the evidentiary level necessary. The fact that it's set for another hearing on bond suggests to me that they are trying to raise the amount or deny bond--and that defense counsel, of course, is trying to lower the amount set. The article doesn't say the defendants were able to make the $200,000 bond.

I agree that it would be a good thing if the judge were able (and willing) to deny bond.

I would suspect that the US Attorney for that US District Court is busy trying to transfer the case to federal court. Maybe we'll hear more about it.

Dave Oesterreich

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: The Fooles Troupe
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:10 PM

... especialy if you turn off the tones, and turn on the vibrator - disgusting!

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:03 PM

Unfortunately, I can think of a lot of extremely nasty things you could use a cell phone to initiate. Ugly things which I shan't go into in a public forum -- if I can think them up so can others.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Peace
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 11:00 PM

IMO, I expect that the phones would be used to time the releases of bio agents. The increased spread from that--assuming the devices were near duct systems--could infect people without them knowing. They then take it home with them. It spreads to others. If no one gets sick for three days or so, the number of people affected could be enormous. And, with the mobility of people today, it could spread quickly and widely.

A bail of any amount is ludicrous, IMO. The money is there for them to skip and go elsewhere. Who's using what for brains?

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 10:52 PM

Maybe they're just understandably pissed off at WalMart for being the seriously scummy outfit they are.

Cell phones are also routinely used for making telephone calls.

... the US has never been the target of a concerted bombing campaign

Jeez, ya mean the U S of A ISN'T exempt from the problems the rest of the world faces? Who knew?

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 05:42 PM

Also, unlike the UK the US has never been the target of a concerted bombing campaign....

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Rapparee
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 05:40 PM

What is of more concern to me would be the number of cell phones and the maps locating Wal-Marts. Cell phones are routinely used as remote triggers for bombs. Wal-Marts are full of people.

Subject: RE: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: Greg F.
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 05:38 PM

And again: HUNH??

Jeez, I feel safer already. Eternal Vigilance & all that.....

Subject: BS: Noted with very little comment
From: dick greenhaus
Date: 10 Aug 06 - 05:28 PM

2 Held on Terror Charges in Ohio

MARIETTA, Ohio (AP) - Two men were charged Wednesday with money laundering in support of terrorism after authorities said they found airplane passenger lists and information on airport security checkpoints in their car.

Deputies stopped Osama Sabhi Abulhassan, 20, and Ali Houssaiky, 20, both of Dearborn, Mich., on a traffic violation Tuesday. They found the flight documents along with $11,000 cash and 12 phones in the car, said Washington County Sheriff Larry Mincks.

Prosecutor Susan Vessels declined to say how the phones, cash or flight information involved terrorism.

Abulhassan and Houssaiky admitted buying about 600 phones in recent months at stores in southeast Ohio, said sheriff's Maj. John Winstanley. The men said they sold the phones to someone in Dearborn, a Detroit suburb.

Investigators going through the car after the pair were pulled over in Marietta, about 90 miles southeast of Columbus, also found a map that showed locations of Wal-Mart stores from Ohio through Kentucky, Tennessee and into North and South Carolina, Vessels said.

FBI spokesman Mike Brooks in Cincinnati said his office was notified about the arrests and an agent was investigating.

A message seeking comment was left Wednesday evening with Ray Smith, a public defender who represents Abulhassan. Houssaiky did not yet have an attorney, Vessels said.

Abulhassan and Houssaiky did not speak at a hearing Wednesday in Marietta Municipal Court in which a judge set their bond at $200,000, Vessels said. Another bond hearing was set for Thursday.

The charges allege the two laundered between $5,000 and $25,000, Vessels said. A conviction carries a maximum 18 months in prison and a $5,000 fine.


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