"Exploding Toilets blamed on Internet" (fwd)

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Subject: "Exploding Toilets blamed on Internet" (fwd)
From: Robbie Honerkamp <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 12:20:31 -0500 (EST)
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It's nice to know that they're blaming EVERYTHING on the Internet now.. :)

Robbie

In our previous episode, Cedric Ingrand was heard to say:
> From: "Cedric Ingrand" <[email protected]>
> Subject: "Exploding Toilets blamed on Internet"
> Date: Wed, 6 Nov 1996 04:35:27 +0100
> 
> Sorry for veering off-topic, but you gotta love that headline (-: !
> 
> > [Newsbytes:News-1105.30]    11/5/96
> > 
> >         Australia - Exploding Toilets Blamed On Internet
> >         
> >         SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA 1996 NOV 5 (NB) -- It had to come. Sydney's
> >         mysterious toilet bomber, who has blown up three toilets on the city
> >         circle railway line in the past week, learned how to do it from the
> >         Internet, according to one police theory.
> >         
> >         A police spokesman showing reporters the blasted toilet said bomb
> >         squad investigators believed the crude home-made device used in the
> >         bombing had been inspired by "explosives recipes" he claimed were
> >         available to anyone with a PC and an Internet connection.
> >         
> >         While their interest has been piqued by the mystery explosions,
> >         Aussie journalists have thrown metaphorical cold water on the police
> >         theory. Australian PC Week's online editor, Josh Gliddon, said it
> >         was becoming fashionable to blame the Internet for various crimes
> >         and social ills.
> >         
> >         Geoff Ebbs, editor of Web Master magazine, said: "The Internet is
> >         always getting blamed for bomb attacks and paedophilia behavior and
> >         so on. To blame it for a random attack is ridiculous."
> >         
> >         (19961105)
> 


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