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From: optilink!cramer@uunet.uu.net (Clayton Cramer)
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Subject: Re: US West and the War on Drugs
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Date: 12 Apr 90 17:06:05 GMT
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In article <6266@accuvax.nwu.edu>, zellich@stl-07sima.army.mil (Rich
Zellich) writes:

# Sounds to me like the local Radio Shack should stock up on the little
# credit-card-size tone generators/dialers ... it shouldn't be too long
# before the drug dealers and/or their customers realize a $10 shirt-
# pocket gadget is all they need to resume business as usual.
 
# (I can see it now - the city council/aldermen/whatever trying to add
# pocket dialers to the list of prohibited "drug paraphernalia", followed
# by the police raiding Radio Shack, Target, and Venture electronics
# departments.)

Don't laugh -- last year a Congresswoman from Maryland introduced a
bill that would make it a 3-year prison sentence for selling, renting,
or lending a pager to someone under 21.

These morons never learn, do they?

Clayton E. Cramer {pyramid,pixar,tekbspa}!optilink!cramer
Disclaimer?  You must be kidding!  No company would hold opinions like mine!


[Moderator's Note: And indeed, in the City of Chicago it is against
the law for a person of school age to carry a paging device on their
person when on school property. Exceptions are made in cases of
medical situations or other family emergencies which have been
verified. Their thinking was the kids were using the beepers for drug
running.   PT]