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Re: [OM] HOW DO THEY DIE?

Subject: Re: [OM] HOW DO THEY DIE?
From: Winsor Crosby <wincros@xxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 17:58:46 -0800
>Gary Schloss wrote:
>>
>> WD NAGEL wrote:
>>
>> >I have a story about my OM4T.  I was walking in the subway in NYC last
>> >year, when I was approached by a mugger.  He demanded that I handed my
>> >much loved OM4T over to him!  I replied, "NOT ON YOUR LIFE. I WOULD
>> >RATHER DIE THEN GIVE YOU MY #@!%*&$ OM4T!"  He replied, "OK."  Pulled
>> >out a gun and fired a round at me.  The bullet ricocheted off the
>> >titanium pentaprism on my OM4T, off a steel beam for the ceiling of the
>> >subway platform, then hit the mugger. The bullet went clear through his
>> >heart. As he laid on the ground dying, I looked over my camera and saw
>> >it was OK, so I told him to say "cheeeesssse" and took his picture. The
>> >camera still works to this day! I guess no one should %@&! with an OM4T!
>>
>> Hmm, Mr. NAGEL neglected to include the epilogue to the above. And so,
>> here it is the REST (best?) of the story...
>>
>> Since his OM-4T was black, not champagne, while the mugger was white,
>> the camera was arrested, charged with murder in the 1-st degree, and
>> unceremoniously sentenced to death.
>>
>>>
>> /Gary Schloss.
>> Studio City, CA
>> schloss@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>
>--
>
>Hmmm.  This story just doesn't ring true.  Seems like there would have
>been a jury of his black 4T peers, the camera would have hired Mr.
>Johnnie 4TCochran, who would have proved that the white mugger had
>called poor Mr 4Tblack the N***n word and therefore of course the
>killing was excusable and "If it don't fit, you must acquit", whereupon
>Mr 4TBlack could be seen photographing the finest golf courses in the
>world, looking for the real killers.
>
>
>george  :>)

I am getting uncomfortable with the direction this is going. Can we get
back to Oly stuff?


Winsor Crosby
Long Beach, California
mailto:wincros@xxxxxxxxxxx





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