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Just the thing to ensure some personal space on the Tube during the rush hour!
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Or to create the new crime of "Attempting to travel while carrying anything electronic", which is a capital offence in the same way that attempting to travel while being Brazilian was.
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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Well, if a device is intentionally created to cause suspicion and thus panic in a public place that is a crime.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Yes, and it's a joke device, not designed for that purpose, Marc.
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timmy
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Location: UK, in Devon
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Even so, I think I will steer well clear of such things 
Author of Queer Me! Halfway Between Flying and Crying - the true story of life for a gay boy in the Swinging Sixties in a British all male Public School
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marc
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How can you be so sure of its intent?
How can you be so sure it will not be placed in an area where panic might occur.......
Hell, just leave a sealed box in a planter at a mall and see how fast the place is evacuated.
Put in a wind up alarm clock and you are destined to a long process of explainations and court dates.
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Of course there is potential for abuse. As you say yourself, an entirely innocuous alarm clock has potential for abuse. But a novelty alarm clock can also be amusing (well, theoretically -- I don't remember having come across one!).
I took it as a joke. When I said I would like one to carry on the Tube I was not being serious.
Talk about sucking the humour out of a thread (something you've accused me of in the past)!
David
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marc
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I didn't see it as at all funny.....
Sorry to pop your balloon.....
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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All potentially humorous material is now to be run past Marc before posting on this board, lest he not find it funny.
Copies to marcthevad@sbcglobal.net with the subject, "Are you amused?", please.
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*raised eyebrow*
and people tell me the gay community's not bitchy...
Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, set fieri sentio et excrucior
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marc
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Actually no... I am not amused.....
I take your comment to be a direct challenge.....
Accepted.....
Are you up ot it!
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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marc
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Registered: March 2003
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Or perhaps we should by default proclaim David as the wellspring of humor before the fact.....
Whether he is or not.....
What is next? A well greased crutch foot?
Life is great for me... Most of the time... But then I meet people online... Very few are real friends... Many say they are but know nothing of what it means... Some say they are, but are so shallow...
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Bitchy? O, 'tis a fine line to tread...
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Sorry gents, but I laughed me Yankee arse off! Of course it would take a total idiot to attempt to run it through the baggage check of the local airport. It depends on your intent, and its applied usage, as to whether it is a terrorist device or a high tech whoopee cushion!
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