Re: [ATM] Thieves OT, but still

[Mike Lockwood <melockwo@uiuc.edu>]

Hi,

Anthony Stillman wrote:
> To the person who stole my car this morning and then abandoned it a block
> away when the engine automatically cut out.  Assuming you can read, know
> how to use a computer, and look me up; ATM obviously doesn't mean cash
> machine, the old Excedrin pill bottle you took is filled with low grade
> cerium dioxide, not meth, and that's 5 micron aluminum oxide in the film
> canister, not cocaine.
> 
> Finally, to my fellow ATMs, imagining this poor car thief smoking cerium
> and snorting aluminum oxide has me tremendously concerned.  So everyone,
> please don't inadvertently leave unlabeled containers of these compounds
> laying around in your vehicles.  I know I'll never inadvertently do it
> again.

Glad you got the car back.

It's a good thing I wasn't drinking coffee when I read that, or it 
might have been spewed in laughter all over my monitor.

On the other side of the coin, I've often wondered what would happen 
if I were to be pulled over while there was a box full of aluminum 
oxide, cerium oxide, and other mysterious light-colored substances on 
the floor in front of the passenger seat beside me, being transported 
to a friend's house or a mirror grinding class.

Heck, they'd probably think the carborundum was gunpowder, too.

	Mike Lockwood

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