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Mike

Thu Apr 27 2006, 02:48PM

Registered Member #58 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:40AM
Location: Tri-Cities, Washington, US
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Well I think you can be sure that from the looks of those non intelligent emails, whoever of them tries to make it will most likely kill themself in the process before anyone else...

Avalanche

Thu Apr 27 2006, 02:59PM

Registered Member #103 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 08:16PM
Location: Derby, UK
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I got a series of emails once from someone wanting to build a coilgun.

They were asking things like 'why doesn't my capacitor bank work? I charged it with 12v battery, but the voltage across it still reads 12v, what's it for anyway?'

After about 8 more emails, it turns out they were trying to build a railgun.

It really made me wonder what some people try after reading our sites - I guess the least you can do is add some safety information, and a disclaimer.

Steve Conner

Thu Apr 27 2006, 04:12PM

Registered Member #30 Joined: Fri Feb 03 2006, 10:52AM
Location: Glasgow, Scotland
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I don't get dumb e-mails as a rule. However, I once got stalked by a Tesla nut living in my home town, which scared me enough to put down the whole of my site for a few months. When I finally put it back up, it carried a "No Black Helicopters" disclaimer for years.

He seemed to think that the CIA (or other unspecified men in black I guess) were remote viewing him, and that I could build him a pair of Tesla coils with a suitable frequency to jam the brainwaves.

He explained all of this in a call from a public call box to my parents' house (where I was living at the time) and later came round to visit a few times. I pretended not to be in and had ghastly visions of this guy trying to kidnap me as his coil building slave :-o

I was always careful not to publish contact details online, but he called every "Conner" in the local phone book until he got through to one of my relatives who was obviously un-el1te enough to give away my number.

If anything like that ever happened again, I think I would quit Tesla coiling. It seems to attract a lot of the wrong crowd :P

Dr. Drone

Thu Apr 27 2006, 05:27PM

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Hazmatt_(The Underdog)

Thu Apr 27 2006, 06:17PM

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*nodds while putting a loaded gun in a child's hands* Okay Jr. go be responsible for yourself.

Do what you like with your website, but remember that giving stupid people deadly information is like putting a loaded weapon in their hands!

One must exercise the responsibility to self AND to others. This is called Ethics.

williamn

Thu Apr 27 2006, 06:49PM

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but remember that giving stupid people deadly information is like putting a loaded weapon in their hands!

In the long run this is good for the human race, so long as the idot is the one removed from the gene pool.

Andrew, I wonder why they want to knock someone out for exaclty one hour? Scary, that guy needs to drink a few gallons of chloroform.

AndrewM

Thu Apr 27 2006, 11:47PM

Registered Member #49 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 04:05AM
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Hazmatt_(The Underdog) wrote ...

Do what you like with your website, but remember that giving stupid people deadly information is like putting a loaded weapon in their hands!

One must exercise the responsibility to self AND to others. This is called Ethics.

My preferred flavor of ethics means supplying them with the information they need to recognize and mitigate the dangers. Being ethical does not make it my job to protect everyone from themselves.

We digress. More funny emails!!!

Desmogod

Fri Apr 28 2006, 12:51AM

Registered Member #139 Joined: Sat Feb 11 2006, 11:01AM
Location: Perth, Western Australia
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While working as a computer tech on a helpdesk, I recieved an email stating that "My email isn't working"

Part Scavenger

Fri Apr 28 2006, 01:10AM

Registered Member #79 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 11:35AM
Location: Arkansas
Posts: 673

Desmogod wrote ...

While working as a computer tech on a helpdesk, I recieved an email stating that "My email isn't working"

LOL! Yeah, I've got a few of those folks where I work... Makes you wonder how they get to work in the morning.

HV Enthusiast

Fri Apr 28 2006, 02:44AM

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I once when to a McDonalds and the cashier said, "You wan't a bigmac, don't you?" I said, yes i do - thats pretty good.

She then replied back to me, "Yep, i got E S T"

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