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Darwin Award Candidate

Postby gh » Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:47 am

(except that he lived)

http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f ... G2AOV1.DTL
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Re: Darwin Award Candidate

Postby EPelle » Sat Dec 03, 2005 10:16 am

SF Gate wrote:"I suspect that, more than anything, Steve was doing this as an intellectual proposition," said Johnston, adding that Zeiszler had no record of prior arrests. "He is a bright, articulate young man who was wasting his life playing around with this stuff. Anybody who would -- for fun -- read a chemistry text should be in school instead of sitting in San Mateo County Jail."

Didn:t the Unibomber read -- for fun -- chemistry text?
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Postby Kevin Richardson » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:51 am

My favorite part of this article was his lawyer calling this a "really, really silly move".
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