Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/06/21

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Subject: RE: [Leica] Home depot and the rest
From: "Austin Franklin" <darkroom@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jun 2001 19:56:30 -0400
 
> I once spoke to a police officer who told me of a case in which an
> individual went into a local hobby store and took pictures of the store,
> which he, a model train collector, submitted with an application
> to become a
> retailer of a popular brand of model trains.  The police were going to
> prosecute him for fraud, as his objective was to buy model trains for his
> own collection at wholesale.  They dropped it only because it was
> too costly
> to fly someone from the manufacturer out to testify at trial.

You've got to be kidding?  I mean the police prosecuting the guy for fraud
that is...  Why not fight crime instead of this nonsense...hell, why am I
responding to this when I've got darkroom work to do, or cameras to align...
Silly me.