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Scientology Print Shop Incident
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Date: 2005-07-11, 9:35AM EDT

I work at a "national chain" print shop.

In January or February the Church of Scientology people came in with a big print job for some special event. They had things on colored paper, they wanted us to match the colors as much as possible and make bound volumes of these things. We gave them an estimate, they agreed, we did the job.

They came by and picked the stuff up. They seemed happy.

About six weeks ago they were back and furious. They said we had kept copies of the originals. Now if we did that we'd need a warehouse. They said copies had been leaked. We told them we did not leak anything and in fact we rarely if ever look at what we print except to make sure we are getting good quality copies and binding right side up and so on.

They sent out a lawyer with some investigators. The investigators tried to act like they were police but it was obviously they were from some private eye company. We told them they could look around a little if it would make them happy. They did really lame things like look in the trash and under the rug and in the toilet tanks!

Then they said they wanted to buy some reams of colored paper. We said fine. They said they wanted to pick which reams they got. Odd but fine. They must have bought 100 reams of paper. They opened them up and looked at the pages. It seems they thought we were hiding documents in there. They left all of the paper in a big pile. We recycled it.

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Reply to: anon-84145583@craigslist.org Date: 2005-07-13, 7:55AM EDT

The store opens at 7 but it is rare for anyone to wander in before 830 or 9.

I have to check the store's email as some people send print jobs in that way. I got a couple today, they are set up and running.

In addition to finding out that someone flagged my post on the time when the Scientologists came in here and then had a fit another person emailed with some questions.

I thought I would just post the answers here.

I don't know that there's that much more to tell. They had made up these documents. They had stacks of things to be copied and some of the documents were on colored paper. They wanted us to match as closely as possible. I think there were four or five different stacks. They wanted either a hundred or a hundred and fifty of each. Like I said it was a big job. When they came to get it took several trips to get it all out. We put them in paper boxes for them.

Like I also said we really don't look at stuff people bring in. We do have to do a quality check when we bind. All I can remember is that it was mostly just writing with maybe a table or two here and there. I asked if they wanted divider tabs and they did not.

It was the same people who picked up and delivered the stuff. Nothing notable about any of them. More came to pick up as we told them there would be a lot of stuff to pick up.

The lawyer was from some firm in DC. He handed cards out but no one bothered to keep them. The PIs tried to act like cops but they had ID that said "private investigator" so no one was fooled by that.

They said we had kept copies of their documents and leaked them. We copy so much stuff in here there is no way to remember what we did yesterday let alone back then.

Like I said we let them look around. The lawyer was the one who paid cash for all of the paper that they bought. They picked the reams they wanted and opened them. They flipped through to see and then just left them when they found it was all blank paper.

That's all I know. this is in or around Mont County

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snip> 12 July 2005 @ 05:20 pm More Scientology Freakiness Courtesy of R, news of a a strange incident involving Scientologists that occurred in the DC area ...

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mimic_men noticed that the post was removed, but it was later reposted: http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/rnr/84143512.html (URL works as of 3:59am pst) snip> Scientology Print Shop Incident \\\REPOST/// Reply to: anon-84143512@craigslist.org Date: 2005-07-13, 7:34AM EDT

This was the oirigal posting, not a discussion. So I am reposting it!!!

I work at a "national chain" print shop.

In January or February the Church of Scientology people came in with a big print job for some special event. They had things on colored paper, they wanted us to match the colors as much as possible and make bound volumes of these things. We gave them an estimate, they agreed, we did the job.

They came by and picked the stuff up. They seemed happy.

About six weeks ago they were back and furious. They said we had kept copies of the originals. Now if we did that we'd need a warehouse. They said copies had been leaked. We told them we did not leak anything and in fact we rarely if ever look at what we print except to make sure we are getting good quality copies and binding right side up and so on.

They sent out a lawyer with some investigators. The investigators tried to act like they were police but it was obviously they were from some private eye company. We told them they could look around a little if it would make them happy. They did really lame things like look in the trash and under the rug and in the toilet tanks!

Then they said they wanted to buy some reams of colored paper. We said fine. They said they wanted to pick which reams they got. Odd but fine. They must have bought 100 reams of paper. They opened them up and looked at the pages. It seems they thought we were hiding documents in there. They left all of the paper in a big pile. We recycled it."

(mimic_men cont) with a follow-up discussion: http://washingtondc.craigslist.org/rnr/84145583.html [Life in the Scientology Print Shop(TOP)]

I'm not sure why he took it down the first time."

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snip> betwana on July 13th, 2005 - 10:03 pm Re: Craig's List removed the posting!

Hold on, I'm going to check it out ... In the meantime, I clicked on the message and it showed, but maybe it was still saved in my cache:

Scientology Print Shop Incident

-------------------------------------------------------------- Reply to: anon-83686939@craigslist.org Date: 2005-07-11, 9:35AM EDT

I work at a "national chain" print shop.

In January or February the Church of Scientology people came in with a big print job for some special event. They had things on colored paper, they wanted us to match the colors as much as possible and make bound volumes of these things. We gave them an estimate, they agreed, we did the job.

They came by and picked the stuff up. They seemed happy.

About six weeks ago they were back and furious. They said we had kept copies of the originals. Now if we did that we'd need a warehouse. They said copies had been leaked. We told them we did not leak anything and in fact we rarely if ever look at what we print except to make sure we are getting good quality copies and binding right side up and so on.

They sent out a lawyer with some investigators. The investigators tried to act like they were police but it was obviously they were from some private eye company. We told them they could look around a little if it would make them happy. They did really lame things like look in the trash and under the rug and in the toilet tanks!

Then they said they wanted to buy some reams of colored paper. We said fine. They said they wanted to pick which reams they got. Odd but fine. They must have bought 100 reams of paper. They opened them up and looked at the pages. It seems they thought we were hiding documents in there. They left all of the paper in a big pile. We recycled it.

this is in or around Bethesda

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