On Thu, 16 Jan 1997, Declan McCullagh wrote:

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Time to debunk this rumor. I just spoke with the Arkansas state police, who told me: "It wasn't put out by the state police. [If anything] it must be a city ordinance from some city. That state police definitely didn't do it." -Declan

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jcr@idiom.com ("John C. Randolph") quotes Charles R. Smith

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IMMEDIATE ATTENTION The Arkansas Police have declared that is is illegal to own, use, or possess RSU product #11265113, a fully assembled descrambler/scrambler, in the State of Arkansas. Tandy Corporation's legal department is researching this and the product has been removed from RSU distribution. DO NOT take order or sell this product until this situation can be resolved.

I called the Arkansas State Police, 501-221-8200, to try to verify this, and they're "going to have somebody call me back." I'm not holding my breath...

If anybody has a definative source on this, I'd love to see it; it's mindboggling.

thad

The strangest part of this story is that I haven't even heard of the product they've described above. The number given sounds like a serial number, NOT a product number. Somehow, I think that it would have been covered around here by now if it were real. Jim Bell jimbell@pacifier.com