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>>>And I wouldn't be surprised if they were moving empty crates, just to fool the spies. I would have done that in their place.
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>>Yeah, I like to fool heavily armed police like that - pretend I've got a gun and I'm about to shoot them. Boy, just to see the looks on their faces right before they open up, and to have the satisfaction of how silly they are going to feel examining my body and find out it wasn't a gun at all <bg>
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>It was common practise in WWII, and I still think so in modern warfare, that cardboard cutouts of tanks and planes and who-knows-what are used to suggest to enemies that there is more stuff there than there really is.
>Moving empty crates would qualify similarly. Pulling a toy gun on a cop ain't quite the same (I do see your <bg>)
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>cheers
Yeah, but if I were say - Belgium - and it was 1938 I'd be real nervous about creating a lot of menacing looking cardboard cutouts to impress the Germans. <s>
If you really want somebody to see you moving boxes around that are empty, you better have some boxes someplace else that aren't. <g>
Charles Hankey
Though a good deal is too strange to be believed, nothing is too strange to have happened.
- Thomas Hardy
Half the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm-- but the harm does not interest them. Or they do not see it, or they justify it because they are absorbed in the endless struggle to think well of themselves.
-- T. S. Eliot
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.
- Ben Franklin
Pardon him, Theodotus. He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.
