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From: mbr@aoa.UUCP (Mark Rosenthal)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Re: Cashier wants zipcode?
Message-ID: <386@aoa.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 2-Jan-86 11:42:43 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan  2 11:42:43 1986
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In article <671@kitty.UUCP> larry@kitty.UUCP (Larry Lippman) writes:
>
>	Like you, I used to get aggrivated when asked for my name and address
>for a $ 3.00 purchase at Radio Shack.  So rather than argue with the clerk, I
>thought I would have some fun in return: I generally give a name of a famous
>criminal, adding a Jr. or III as appropriate, along with a phony address.
>	I can *assure* you that Radio Shack is doing their best to send
>catalogs to Al Capone III in Buffalo, New York...
>

Even more fun is to give them a bogus name and the address of a Radio Shack
store in another city.
-- 

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