From: TruthMonger <tm@dev.null>
Date: Wed, 29 Oct 1997 10:55:57 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: Alan Found! / Re: Roby latest
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TruthMonger wrote: 
> Jeff Barber wrote:
> > See http://www.sj-r.com/roby.html for the latest.
> > My favorite excerpt:
> > > Illinois State Police feared that any progress in getting Allen - who's
> > > suspected to suffer from paranoia, delusions and suicidal thoughts - to
> > > exit on her own may have been undone. On Sunday, troopers broke out most
> > > of the remaining windows in Allen's house, tossed nine pepper-spray
> > > grenades inside and sent a police dog in to subdue Allen.

> I used to run a 24-hour Drop-In Center which had trained volunteer
> counsellors on staff around the clock.
> I was checking on the night shift one time, and heard Alan, one of
> the night counsellors, telling a paranoid schizophrenic (who had
> come to the Center when the walls began closing in on him at 4 a.m.),
> "I'm a Warlock, you know. I could kill you just by looking at you."
> 
> I always wondered what became of Alan. Anyone spot him at Roby Ridge?

  A few days after the episode above, some of the employees were
giving Alan shit for sleeping on the nightshift, and thus not
being available to help those who came in to the Drop-In Center.
  Alan replied that, as a Warlock, he was not sleeping, but was
in a very deep state of meditation, able to hear a pin drop,
anywhere in the building.
  Sure enough, a couple days later, Alan was in his deep state
of meditation when someone came in and stole the TV set which
was sitting a few feet from his head.

>From News of the Weird:
* In January, Prime Minister H. D. Deve Gowda of India told a
meeting of government employees in Bangalore that, in contrast
with his image of laziness, he is actually a workaholic.  The various
photographs of him dozing off during official meetings are not
accurate, he said.  "Most of the time I am in deep thought about
various welfare programs for the people." 

  Right. That would account for the holes in his arm...

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