Get Real

mmotyka at lsil.com mmotyka at lsil.com
Wed Sep 26 13:14:45 PDT 2001


Tim May <tcmay at got.net> wrote :
>
>I've refused to answer questions about neighbors when they were being 
>checked out by the FBI. I told the agents, this was in the mid-80s, that 
>I had no interest in speculating to them about a person I knew only in 
>passing.
>
I just avoided any sort of speculation. The degree of isolation in our
high turnover little suburban
(BLECCCH!RETCCHH!!OMIGAWDHOWDIDIGETHERE?!?!?!) neighborhoods is amazing.
If you stick to the facts there's usually little to say and it takes
little time to say it. All in all I'd guess it's normally a low quality
information source and excruciatingly boring duty.

>I expect a lot of background checks get idle speculation from bluehairs 
>and busybodies.
>
I'd bet that they know how to filter out the worst of the
non-information.

>--Tim May
>
Mike





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