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From: urlichs@smurf.sub.org (Matthias Urlichs)
Newsgroups: comp.org.eff.talk
Subject: Re: Some Questions
Message-ID: <"iqnf2.352@smurf.sub.org>
Date: 24 Sep 90 15:56:12 GMT
References: <3252@mindlink.UUCP>
Organization: University of Karlsruhe, FRG
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In comp.org.eff.talk, article <3252@mindlink.UUCP>,
  a577@mindlink.UUCP (Curt Sampson) writes:
< 
<[...]   There was a case
<up here some time back where a telephone repairman working on some lines
< overheard a conversation between two people planning a murder.  He reported it
<to the police but the case was dismissed from court and he ended up losing his
<job.

Something like this happened in Germany a few months/years(?) ago.
In this case, the repairman checked the line because it was busy a long time,
and happened to hear much the same thing.

The parties were convicted, but not on the evidence of the repairman.
Presumably he told his superviros, who told the police, who managed to get
enough other evidence once they knew about the plan.
(And the repairman was not fired.)

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