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12-07-2008, 10:21 PM
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Indeed, I saw that story the other day. It is pretty funny, yet also alarming that it was so easy to transfer ownership to the reporter's fictitious company. Some sort of oversight is clearly lacking.
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12-08-2008, 09:41 AM
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yeah, I told the News to steal it for me, that was the easy part. The hard part: trying to ship this beauty from 5th Ave to Flushing.  |
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12-08-2008, 04:18 PM
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Honestly, who else but Fox News (the baby of Rupert Murdoch, who has already proven how well he knows how to obliterate journalistic standards with the New York Post) could possibly have presented such a story?
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12-08-2008, 06:37 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by iGlenn
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Somehow it reminds me of the sale of Manhattan Island centuries ago to the Dutch by Natives - except I don't believe documents, fictitious or otherwise, were used in that transaction. |
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12-10-2008, 05:22 PM
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In 1945, a small airplane accidentally flew into the Empire State Building. Then it got surpassed as the tallest building in the world. Now it's been stolen. Some buildings just don't have good luck at all.
They shoulda built it in Brooklyn!
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12-10-2008, 09:16 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Fred314X
In 1945, a small airplane accidentally flew into the Empire State Building. Then it got surpassed as the tallest building in the world. Now it's been stolen. Some buildings just don't have good luck at all.
They shoulda built it in Brooklyn!
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