From: greeeeaaaaat* <root@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net>
Date: Tue, 9 Jan 1996 08:14:47 +0800
To: skc@huge.net.hk (Shri)
Subject: Re: [Fwd: Re: ABOI: Desperate User Support]
In-Reply-To: <30F17C73.4765@huge.net.hk>
Message-ID: <199601081852.SAA03871@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net>
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> 
> Seen on Alt.best.of.internet. Would love to find out if this is 
> true! 
> 
> Shri
> 
> > >This falls into the "Why did it have to happen on *MY* shift?" category.
> > 
> > >A friend of mine is a chief engineer at SuperMac, and he related this
> > >story to me.
> > 
> > >Some poor SuperMac TechSport got a call from some middle level official...
> > >from the legitimate government of Trinidad.  The fellow spoke very good
> > >English, and fairly calmly described the problem.
> > 
> > >It seemed there was a coup attempt in progress at that moment.  However,
> > >the national armoury for that city was kept in the same building as the
> > >Legislature, and it seems that there was a combination lock on the door
> > >to the armoury.  Of the people in the capitol city that day, only the
> > >Chief of the Capitol Guard and the Chief Armourer knew the combination to
> > >the lock, and they had already been killed.

It's not.  This was hashed over in alt.folklore.computers a little
while back, and someone did some research and found out that there
haven't been any coup attempts in the past few years in Trinidad, or
something like that.

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Ben Byer    root@bushing.plastic.crosslink.net    I am not a bushing
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