On Tue, 27 Nov 2001 04:35:26 -0800, Brent <bstone@kudonet.com> wrote:

>On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 19:41:22 GMT, "Fredric L. Rice"
><FRice@SkepticTank.ORG> wrote:
>>Caroline Letkeman wrote:
>>> OSA Agent. When I started walking across the street to get a better
>>> shot, he quickly left the scene, moving west on Hastings.
>>I wonder if these people think they're intimidating when they
>>take photographs of activists and then and hide when an
>>activist tries to walk over and photograph them and talk
>>with them. Boy, they sure are scary. }:-}
>My favorite was at a picket at the San Jose org. They were running
>"sprinkler tech" at the time, aiming their sprinkler system at the
>sidewalk and turning it on when we came to picket.
>
>They called the cops for "harassment" by Keith and me because one of
>their members came out to the street to talk to us (we actually had
>a pleasant conversation, which appeared to upset them no end).
>
>When the cops came, we mentioned the sprinkler system to them and
>the Scientologists claimed that the sprinkler system was automatic
>and they had no control over it, and the only people who knew how to
>turn it off were the EPF, and they weren't there.
>
>Two weeks later I went to picket alone. As soon as I arrived, one
>of them ran out to the bushes out front and turned on the sprinkler
>system (it's a manual valve). I took a picture of the event.
>
>Of course, they called the cops for "harassment" because "I took a
>picture of them". They even told the officer that they "had a
>picture of me taking a picture of them" to "prove" I was harassing
>them :-)
>
>Unfortunately, the officer who showed up was the SAME officer who
>had been there two weeks earlier to hear them say that the system
>was automatically controlled and they couldn't control it manually.
>
>Another cop learned how they lie that day.
Another classic picketing story! Keith Henson

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