- LAS VEGAS -- A mother's enquiry
about buying Microsoft Flight Simulator for her ten-year-old son prompted
a night-time visit to her home from a state trooper.
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- Julie Olearcek, a USAF Reserve pilot made the enquiry
at a Staples store in Massachusetts, home to an earlier bout of hysteria,
during the Salem witch trials.
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- So alarmed was the Staples clerk at the prospect of the
ten year old learning to fly, that he informed the police, the Greenfield
Recorder reports. The authorities moved into action, leaving nothing to
chance. A few days later, Olearcek was alarmed to discover a state trooper
flashing a torch into to her home through a sliding glass door at 8:30
pm on a rainy night.
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- Olearcek is a regular Staples customer and schools her
son at home. The Staples manager simply explained that staff were obeying
advice. Shortly before Christmas, the FBI issued a terror alert to beware
of drivers with maps, or reference books.
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- At one time it was rare to find US citizens, in the safest
and most prosperous country in the world, jumping at their own shadows.
Now we only note how high.
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- http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/28/34776.html
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