Rifling a PO Box
In the pre-interweb '80s, I was working for a certain newspaper. One of the circulation tactics of the day was to introduce a lonely hearts page rather than just the regular personals. It was a great source of entertainment for us "kids" reading the ads... but it was even more fun sneakily reading the replies! Anyway, a mate of mine actually had access to the PO BOX attached to each advert... and he diverted all legit replies to a particular girl's advert and substituted it with his own. Needless to say he got the gig. She was odd in two ways:

1. She pulled her sweater up over her nose when she was in public.
2. Concealed a large knife under her pillow.

On an unrelated incidident a few years later, I was on the night-shift running a long winded multi-reel-tape-back-up one Saturday night when I was interupted by an Executive and the Police. Apparently one of these lonely hearts had been "done in" and I had to bring systems back on line immediately so they could get some details....

Both 3rd party experiences, but enough to put me off being involved with the concept.

Length: The blade was reumoured to be 7 inches.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Wed 19 Sep 2007, 9:39, Reply)