Link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=05/01/29/030223 Posted by: michael, on 2005-01-29 11:03:00 from the if-you're-innocent-you-have-nothing-to-fear dept. [1]Richard M. Smith writes "Tukwila, Washington firefighter, Philip Scott Lyons found out the hard way that supermarket loyalty cards come with a huge price. Lyons was arrested last August and charged with attempted arson. Police alleged at the time that Lyons tried to set fire to his own house while his wife and children were inside. According to [2]KOMO-TV and the Seattle Times, a major piece of evidence used against Lyons in his arrest [3]was the record of his supermarket purchases that he made with his Safeway Club Card. Police investigators had discovered that his Club Card was used to buy fire starters of the same type used in the arson attempt. For Lyons, the story did have a [4]happy ending. All charges were dropped against him in January 2005 because another person stepped forward saying he or she set the fire and not Lyons." References 1. http://www.ComputerBytesMan.com/ 2. http://www.komotv.com/stories/32785.htm 3. http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002055245_arson06m.html 4. http://heraldnet.com/stories/05/01/28/100loc_arson001.cfm ----- End forwarded message ----- -- Eugen* Leitl <a href="http://leitl.org">leitl</a> ______________________________________________________________ ICBM: 48.07078, 11.61144 http://www.leitl.org 8B29F6BE: 099D 78BA 2FD3 B014 B08A 7779 75B0 2443 8B29 F6BE http://moleculardevices.org http://nanomachines.net [demime 1.01d removed an attachment of type application/pgp-signature]