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Australia hijackers make clean getaway with load of toilet--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) - Thieves made a clean getaway after stealing a truck packed with thousands of dollars worth of toilet paper, police said Monday. The silver truck was taken from a yard in southeast Melbourne, 460 miles southwest of Sydney, some time between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning, a spokesman said on customary condition of anonymity.
The truck's load of toilet rolls was valued at $18,900.
No arrests were immediately reported.
VIVA! Le Doomer's.........LOL!!
-- CygnusXI (noburnt@toast.net), August 30, 1999
Could come in handy when TSHTF!Tick... Tock... <:00=
-- Sysman (y2kboard@yahoo.com), August 30, 1999.
FWIW, this may be a case in which the truck itself was the object of the thieves, rather than its contents. Nevertheless, this may go down in the books as the GREAT TP Robbery. :-)Jerry
-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), August 30, 1999.
Toilet paper thieves should be WIPED OUT!!!
-- Forrest Covington (theforrest@mindspring.com), August 30, 1999.
what is FWIW???
-- zoobie (zoobiezoob@yahoo.com), August 30, 1999.
FWIW --- For what it's worth
-- chicken farmer (chicken-farmer@ y2k.farm), August 30, 1999.
FWIW = for what it's worthsome others
BTW = by the way IMHO = in my humble opinion OTOH = on the other hand LOL = laugh out load ROTFL = rolling on the floor laughing
and then there is the oldie but goodie
SPEBSQSA (?) = society for the preservation and encouragement of barber shop quartet singing in America ! :-)
Jerry
-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), August 30, 1999.
This is taking T2K stockpiling a bit far...
-- Dog Gone (layinglow@rollover.now), August 30, 1999.
It had to be an "extremist" doomer that did it! hmm....where has Paul Milne and INVAR been lately?
-- Chris (%$^&^@pond.com), August 30, 1999.
A few years back when cigarette prices started to climb, a truck hauling cigarettes here in California was hijacked. They recovered the truck intact but the cigs were gone.
-- Giger Slim (GingerSlim@GingerSlim.com), August 30, 1999.
Acronyms Defined
-- bw (home@puget.sound), August 30, 1999.
Well, try that again. Acronyms defined
-- bw (home@puget.sound), August 30, 1999.
bw,Thank you!
Jerry
-- Jerry B (skeptic76@erols.com), August 30, 1999.
Please don't pinch the Charmin.....
-- marsh (armstrng@sisqtel.net), August 30, 1999.
The first Y2K prep my wife insisted on buying was a HUGE quantity of TP. When I questioned whether there might some other items of higher priority, I was sternly told not to argue, that she was not facing life without this particular luxury.However, I am relatively certain, that she was no where near Melbourne Australia, between Sunday afternoon and Monday morning...
-- Bokonon (bok0non@my-Deja.com), August 31, 1999.
Zoobie -Another good source of tech "definitions" is http://www.whatis.com
-- JCL Jockey (WeThrive@OnStress.com), August 31, 1999.
Agreed BonkMy house goes through 482 rolls of TP per week.
PS, Don't ask me why.
(hint: I don't know why, me, I'm pretty regular)
-- Uncle Deedah (unkeed@yahoo.com), August 31, 1999.
I have a rock-solid alibi - I was at work. But it's nice to know there's other doomers in my city.
-- number six (Iam_not_a_number@hotmail.com), August 31, 1999.