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A few days ago I rescued an old Amiga 1200 from being sent to the dump. Yesterday I prepared everything for the de-yellowing process. Today I made liquid "retrobrite" for the keys and put everything it in a pirex container outside in the sun to let the reaction take place. To make sure nobody touched it, and to say which apartment (me) put it there in case they want any more information, I attached a large note.

Well, somebody in the building saw it, didn't bother reading the note (many people in this town have difficulty reading and writing -- no joke), decided it was a bomb and called the police! Nothing like being taken for questioning over restoring an Amiga.

I can't fucking believe this shit.

Anyway... Whatever. I'm pissed and just had to rant. Just like how all bomb-making terrorists have to rant.

I guess they're now currently deciding on how to "proceed" with the case. And I don't mean the A1200 case.

you're...fucking with us right?

holy shit dude, i feel your pain!!!

Well, I imagine they're doing a background check right now, which is actually in my favour as I have absolutely no criminal record.

I hope nothing comes of this. I don't want to have to pay for a lawyer.

What happened to the guys with the ATHF sign...

I think the real downer is that you can be charged with distrubing the public or terrorist hoax...

Dude ... what happened to the Amiga?

HOPE they didnt detonate it :(

Not even the police can read!?

I still have the Amiga, and the keys too, but not my retrobrite solution. Unfortunately the keys are only half de-yellowed.

Yes, the police can read, that's how they knew to come to my apartment. The fire department was here too, but I guess they also didn't bother to read the note.

Action town i guess >_>

dude! that sucks!

/quietly puts a tarpaulin over my brew-kit...
*whistles nonchalantly*

wtf

@ me? If so I'm doing a lemon/ginger beer atm & trust me - if the authorities saw it I'd be detained immediately whilst they "checked" its chemical composition.

time to move out of the trailer park ;)

If you were restoring an Atari ST, that wouldn't have happened, i've never met someone (appart from atarists which i am) considering an Atari ST as a serious affair... ;p
More seriously, that's a weird and sad sorry, hope it will solve without prosecution for you.

What? Then I wouldn't be able to hang out with my uncle-brothers!

What kind of policement don't know a computer when they see one? :O

what country is this in?

I really doubt many terrorists have a criminal record. And I really doubt "background check" means they're just looking up your criminal record. It's more likely they're checking to see if you have ties to someone who has connections to someone who once lived next door to someone who is related to someone who was once suspected of using Retrobrite to shine up an A1200. Not to mention monitoring your phone calls and searching all your emails and text messages for words like "Allah"

In all likeliness you won't be prosecuted for anything, but supposedly the suspicion can stick for quite a while. You might want to be extra careful if you're hanging out with known Muslims or planning to board a plane anytime soon.

ah, so i guess this happened in canada. well. america is going down in a bomb-making craze. maybe that will happen to canada too.

incidentally, your blog is nice. So you actually went to Japan, eh.

Hahaha, good old Amerigo-Vespicci-land 2.

Also, i knew of a guy who was accused to "make bombs with a coffee machine". The police took his normal fireworks and ...the can of his Coffee machine. (They let him have the machine itself, and ofcourse the accusions were bullshit.)

I guess its just another cause of Theft by police.

:D