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How Not To Pay a Parking Ticket 54

Posted by samzenpus on Tuesday November 24, 2009 @01:32PM from the living-in-terror dept.

cohensh writes "A Purdue engineering student was arrested for terroristic mischief. After receiving a parking ticket and having a boot put on his car he put the ticket, boot and payment in a box and left it at parking services. Someone thought the box was suspicious and the building was evacuated. Eventually it was traced back to the student who was arrested for 'leaving something that a reasonable person may think is a weapon of mass destruction.'"

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Submission + - Student arrested for "terroristic mischief" (whdh.com)

Submitted by cohensh on Monday November 23, 2009 @10:43PM

cohensh writes: A Purdue engineering student was arrested for terroristic mischief. After receiving a parking ticket and having a boot put on his car he but the ticket, boot and payment in a box and left it at parking services. Someone thought the box was suspicious and the building was evacuated. Eventually it was traced back to the student who was arrested for "leaving something that a reasonable person may think is a weapon of mass destruction."

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Comment Re:Why will this take 11 years? (Score 1) 59

by cohensh on Saturday October 25, 2008 @10:22PM (#25514013) Attached to: NASA's New Lunar Rover, Now Testing In Arizona

Why is a new lunar rover going to take 11 years to go into production when technology is so much more advanced now and innovation is at a faster pace than ever?

Well for one we're not going to land on the moon for at least another 11 years. I think it will probably be more like 15. The lunar rover isn't the slow part. The slow part is the lack of funding. Right now they have to fund both the shuttle program and development of Constellation. In 1965 the GDP was $712 Billion with a NASA budget of a little more than $5 billion or about 0.7% In 2007 the GDP was about $13.8 Trillion with the NASA budget at about $17 billion, or about 0.12%. It's not the scientists and engineers, it's the politicians.

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