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next: cops dressed as kids turn in parents
by Anonymous 29 May '03

29 May '03

Police, Dressed As Homeless, Give Tickets Thu May 22, 7:25 AM ET KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Homeless advocates are outraged by an operation where undercover police officers dressed as vagrants, observed drivers running red lights or committing other traffic violations, then radioed ahead to other officers who stopped those cars and wrote tickets. "Operation Vagrant," a sting operation involving the Florida Highway Patrol, Kissimmee police and the Osceola County Sheriff's Office, nabbed 171 drivers most of whom ran red lights, a violation that carries an $83 fine. Undercover deputies stood along streets and gave the indication they were vagrants by pushing shopping carts and wearing fake teeth and tattered clothing. They also carried small cardboard signs, which read, "Sheriff's traffic sting in progress. Buckle up." "It's kind of appalling," said Marilyn Gordon, executive director of the Homeless Services Network of Central Florida. "I wonder if it will be a consciousness-raising exercise for the law-enforcement officers." Robert H. Brown, president and chief executive officer of the Coalition for the Homeless of Central Florida, said the officers were being silly. "It's ironic that they would use a disguise of someone that people think of as visually offensive," Brown said. "I just think it shows that the community's aware of the homeless problem. I wish they would solve it, rather than masquerading." Osceola sheriff's bureau Chief Jerry Geier said the sting was designed to raise awareness about dangerous intersections. Nearly 25,000 drivers were ticketed for running red lights in Florida in 2001, and 107 deaths that year were attributed to drivers disregarding traffic signals. Plus, police nationwide started a new initiative this week to call attention to dangers of riding in a vehicle without using a seat belt. "Our ultimate goal is to make an impact," Geier said. "The last thing we're trying to do is disrespect anybody." State Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, an advocate of stronger seat-belt and other traffic-safety laws, applauded the sting operation. His daughter, Dori, 14, was killed in a 1996 traffic accident in which she did not wear a seat belt. "I admire them for being creative," Slosberg said. http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=817&u=/ap/police_vagrant_imperso…

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Re: next: cops dressed as kids turn in parents
by Bill Stewart 29 May '03

29 May '03

>Police, Dressed As Homeless, Give Tickets Thu May 22, 7:25 AM ET > >KISSIMMEE, Fla. - Homeless advocates are outraged by an operation where >undercover police officers dressed as vagrants, observed drivers running >red lights or committing other traffic violations, then radioed ahead to >other officers who stopped those cars and wrote tickets. Hey, lots of people say their local cops are bums. These cops are just admitting it. What's the problem? >"It's kind of appalling," said Marilyn Gordon, executive director of the >Homeless Services Network of Central Florida. "I wonder if it will be a >consciousness-raising exercise for the law-enforcement officers." OK, so it may be insulting to the homeless. But it's also appropriately critical of the people who don't see the homeless when they walk by them, so it's got as much claim to political correctness as incorrectness. >State Rep. Irv Slosberg, D-Boca Raton, an advocate of stronger seat-belt >and other traffic-safety laws, applauded the sting operation. His >daughter, Dori, 14, was killed in a 1996 traffic accident in which she >did not wear a seat belt. The state assemblycritter was so negligent that his daughter hadn't learned to wear seat belts (regardless of who was driving) and the voters elected him? Sigh. It's too bad that Darwin didn't take out him instead of his kid.

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Re: domestic chemwar, useful for street activists too
by Major Variola (ret) 26 May '03

26 May '03

At 07:46 PM 5/25/03 -0400, Sam Ritchie wrote: > Someone should suggest the use of Putrescine to Lt. Mathers... The >chemical odor of decaying bodies is so sickening that Glade couldn't stand a >chance. Anyone know a readily available way for synthesizing this stuff? A >dead body lets off very small quantities of it, awful in itself. Distilled >Putrescine would reduce the most stalwart of us to dry heaves. Oddly, putrescine is used by cell biologists as something used to keep cell cultures alive. They use an odd, not fully characterized brew, including serum. Skatole and indole are reportedly the odors in feces. Interesting that the .mil doesn't use the riot control agents used by domestic pigs because the .mil is prohibited from doing so. (.mil idea of nonlethal force is warning shots..) It would be useful to find odors that freak horses but are not noticed by humans, for dealing with pigs on horses. Predator-urine odors have been discussed here in the past but are hard to obtain. Putrescine, skatole (and skunk) are cheap from chem houses; haven't looked on ebay :-)

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25 May '03

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Putrescine synthesis - Polyamines, nonprotein amino acids and ...of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - Purdue University (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 May '03

25 May '03

---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Sun, 25 May 2003 21:01:17 -0500 From: root <root(a)einstein.ssz.com> To: ravage(a)einstein.ssz.com Subject: Putrescine synthesis - Polyamines, nonprotein amino acids and ...of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture - Purdue University http://www.hort.purdue.edu/rhodcv/hort640c/polyam/po00001.htm

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domestic chemwar, useful for street activists too
by Major Variola (ret.) 25 May '03

25 May '03

For anyone out there who thinks cops lack creativity when it comes to crime fighting, I offer you the Skunk Squad of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. Lt. Shaun Mathers and his special assignment unit in Compton kept seeing the same old problems prostitution, drug dealing, arson, etc. in abandoned buildings and other gathering places. They'd round up the bad guys night after night, but the perps were back in no time, and citizens kept screaming for the cops to do something. In a brain-storming session, Lt. Mathers, Deputy Scott Gage and others got a wacky idea that seemed ridiculous at first maybe they could drive loiterers away with an unpleasant odor. No one even took it seriously until Gage bought a few stink bombs in a novelty store, and curiosity led him and Mathers to the Internet to search for something even smellier. If this sounds as if it could have been a plot from "Leave It to Beaver," maybe it's because Lt. Mathers is the younger brother of that show's star, Jerry Mathers. Lt. Mathers reports that The Beav was quite amused by the story that follows. Deputy Gage discovered something called Liquid Fence, an animal repellent that smelled like rotten garlic. The deputies ordered it by mail and tested it at crime scenes, but the odor faded too quickly to be effective. Next they ordered a repellent developed by scientists in New Zealand. It's called Skunk Shot, and crime-fighting may never be the same. Lt. Mathers' crew knew it was onto something when Deputy Gage's wife called him at work to say a package had arrived by mail. Mathers got on the phone and asked her to open it, then heard a horrified scream. "It contaminated my whole garage," Gage says of the Skunk Shot, a synthetic gel that comes in a small tube and reeks of a skunk's best work. The Skunk Squad decided to try the repellent in an abandoned, burned-out motel at 1510 S. Long Beach Blvd. During a two-week stretch in January and February, Mathers' crew had made 30 arrests there. On this particular visit, Mathers' unit arrested six people, including three who had been arrested in the same location the day before. After the perps were carted away, the deputies reached for the Skunk Shot and went to work. "A small amount of the olfactory nuisance was placed on the armrests of two abandoned couches," Mathers wrote in a report. "The odor of the product became immediately apparent." Three hours later, the Skunk Squad returned and found the dilapidated motel empty, a rare sight at the illicit late-night flophouse. The deputies went back again two hours later, and it was still evacuated. >From Mathers' report: "It appears that, at least for that short time," Skunk Shot "was able to do what fences, gates and barbed wire," along with multiple arrests, "had been unable to do." The high command was impressed. "If it's one less place you have to worry about," says Capt. Cecil Rhambo (real name), "it's worth it." Especially since deputies are at high risk when entering boarded up properties in nearly total darkness. Sheriff Lee Baca, a proponent of creative crime-fighting strategies, couldn't have been more pleased when I filled him in on the details of Mathers' operation. "Crime, in and of itself, is a nasty odor," quipped the top cop. "We're in a time when people don't want to hear excuses, and if we can come up with ways to fix a problem ways as ingenious as this my hat is off" to Mathers, Gage and deputies Dan Drysol, Matt VanderHorck and Brad Molner. Mathers has since moved on to a desk job at headquarters, but he rejoined his former crew one day last week and made me an honorary member of the Skunk Squad. Our first stop was at that abandoned motel on Long Beach Boulevard. This time Mathers and Gage rousted two squatters, one of whom was cleaning his crack pipe. Then Gage donned rubber gloves and smeared Skunk Shot, which looks like Vaseline, around the room. In the interest of public service, I stood there as the odor permeated the place and clocked through my sinuses, at least until my eyes crossed and I was ready to gag. My mind reeled as I thought of all the places I'd like to dab this stuff. Gang hangouts. Drug corners. Hollywood pitch meetings. "It's non-toxic, non-flammable, non-staining," Gage said, and neither the deputy nor the criminal gets hurt. "There's no down side to this." Except that Skunk Shot doesn't work as well in breezy, open areas. Even in tighter spots, it usually wears off in a couple of days. In another unit at the motel, the Skunk Squad became engaged in a war against an industrious crew of squatters who fought back with air fresheners. "We'd hit 'em with Skunk Shot, and they'd come back with Glade," Mathers said. A day or two after being driven away holding their noses, the squatters would return with all manner of auto air fresheners and aerosol cans, trying to overpower the skunk odor. Outside the unit, I found an empty can of Airwick, Country Berries scent. Hey, better to trade foul odors than speeding bullets. "I wish I had paid a lot closer attention in chemistry class," says Mathers, who figures there must be a way to brew an even more offensive, longer-lasting odor. After fouling the motel, my Skunk Squad partners and I rolled to a notorious underpass at Rosecrans and Tamarind. For months, deputies had made hundreds of arrests there to no avail. And then, a few months ago, they brought out their stinky new friend. On our arrival, no one was there. "I credit Skunk Shot with cutting the crowd by as much as two-thirds here," said Gage, who has been buying the stuff online and paying out of his own pocket. It costs $12 a tube, and you can skunk about five locations per tube. Gage, going above and beyond the call, has already spent more than $100. Unfortunately the odor isn't wretched enough to scare criminals straight. It just pushes them along. But it's more effective than relying on bureaucracy to clear abandoned properties, and it brings relief to neighbors, even if it comes at a cost. When the Skunk Squad arrived at an abandoned apartment complex on Spring Street near Compton Boulevard, I went next door and talked to Marlon Terrell and Joe Manley. "You get people doing their dope in there," said Terrell as deputies brought out three squatters in handcuffs. When I explained the place was being skunked by deputies, Manley said he'd rather smell a skunk than worry about having a bunch of freeloaders next door. David Garcia, who lives on the other side of the apartments, said he's afraid squatters are going to burn the block down. After Deputy Gage applied Skunk Shot, I led Garcia in to have a whiff. "Woahhh!" he wailed, reeling back on his heels. Garcia wanted to know where he could buy some Skunk Shot. "Look what you've done," Mathers said to me. "Now we've got vigilante skunkers." In the last stop on our shift, the Skunk Squad returned to the abandoned motel where the repellent had been applied two hours earlier. The place still reeked, and we found not a soul. Crime doesn't sleep in the naked city. But it's on the run in Compton, and holding its nose. http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-lopez25may25,1,687547.column?coll=l… ---- I believe Jim Bell used butyric acid on the domestic terrorists he targeted. Wonder how the fckpartners of riot police would feel about their spouses reeking for a few days after every WTO meet..

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[cs/0305035] P is not equal to NP (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 May '03

25 May '03

http://xyz.lanl.gov/abs/cs.CC/0305035 -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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Americans, the other white meat
by Major Variola (ret.) 25 May '03

25 May '03

Jabarrah told his interrogators some Qaeda code: Market meant Malaysia. Hotel was the Philippines. White meat was an American. http://www.msnbc.com/news/917895.asp?0cv=KB10 I suppose "mad cow" would be a good codeword for the USG...

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Navajo Code Talkers' Dictionary (fwd)
by Jim Choate 25 May '03

25 May '03

http://www.history.navy.mil/faqs/faq61-4.htm -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org --------------------------------------------------------------------

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P <> NP: The paper
by Jim Choate 25 May '03

25 May '03

Enjoy, either way it turns out. -- ____________________________________________________________________ We are all interested in the future for that is where you and I are going to spend the rest of our lives. Criswell, "Plan 9 from Outer Space" ravage(a)ssz.com jchoate(a)open-forge.org www.ssz.com www.open-forge.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- [demime 0.97c removed an attachment of type APPLICATION/pdf which had a name of lanl_PNotEqNP.pdf]

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