A desperate subscriber, perhaps?
Monday, Jun 3, 2013 - Posted by Rich Miller * News of the Weird from the Springfield paper…
Dude, you can get an e-mailed subscription now. You don’t need a fax machine. So there’s no need to bust into anybody’s house. Just sayin…
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- wordslinger - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:20 am:
Who steals a fax machine these days, Indiana Jones?
- I don't want to live in Teabagistan - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:22 am:
I hope he got a VCR. My Porky’s trilogy isn’t going to play itself.
- Lil Squeezy - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:26 am:
What’s a fax machine? Buy a scanner.
- Montrose - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:29 am:
I bet this guy is also planning on targeting all those microfiche machines in the basement of Howlett.
- walkinfool - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:31 am:
Clear case of mistaken identity.
- Ghost of John Brown - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:38 am:
We don’t even have a fax machine at work anymore. Yesterday’s tech.
- soccermom - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 11:58 am:
This made me laugh out loud. Put out an APB for Marty McFly.
- cover - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 12:01 pm:
Is the burglar in desperate need of directly receiving FedEx Zap Mail? What century is he living in, anyway?
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 12:02 pm:
I remember way back when when a candidate was being rumored as, and pressured into, resigning. I finally got fed up with the whole thing and told someone that I’d heard the supporters in his office replaced the fax machine with a paper shredder just in case he DID decide to walk over there to fax his resignation.
Maybe someone’s trying to resign, but this team botched it up, or not, by going to extreme measures to find and install an actual fax–instead of a shredder labeled “fax machine.”
- ProblemChild21 - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 12:08 pm:
Probably thought it was a printer…
- BehindTheScenes - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 12:23 pm:
I read over the weekend that 700,000 Fax machines were sold in America in the last 2 years (2011 & 2012). People must be using then for something. Perhaps papers that must be signed?? Haven’t seen a PC or phone app for that yet.
- Thief Haul Total Est. Value: $1,150 - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 12:28 pm:
And you didn’t change the name to CapitolEmail?!?! Great! Thanks for not letting me know and forcing me to take matters into my own had to get one of these faxing machines! At least this fax machine I procured is still really valuable right?!?
- Judgment Day - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 12:39 pm:
The thief needed to haul a boat anchor along to slow down their escape, and the Fax machine was readily available.
- wishbone - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 1:14 pm:
Where is my beeper?
- Capitol View - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 1:35 pm:
is it “profiling” to check with all the Neanderthals in the county to see who still has a fax machine?
- downstate commissioner - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 1:50 pm:
Interesting comments from a lot of(apparently) high tech people; you don’t know how silly you sound. I am on two smaller government agencies; we fax stuff all of the time; a lot of it is businesses asking for tax exemption letters. A lot of these come as written correspondence, asking us to mail or fax a copy, to a DEDICATED fax line; generally, there isn’t even an email address given. Further, my son is a self-employed contractor-he is always faxing contracts, bids, etc. to customers. In the business world, the fax machine is very much alive and well…
- Huh? - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 2:04 pm:
A few months ago, I heard a story about businesses in Japan won’t give up their fax machines for email.
www.nytimes.com/2013/02/14/world/asia/in-japan-the-fax-machine-is-anything-but-a-relic.html
- Oswego Willy - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 2:47 pm:
I just want to be clear, I was in Oswego during the heist, on my Tandy 2000 Computer with casette tapes, listening to an 8-Track player, while playing “Pong” on a 12″ black and whit monitor, when all this occured.
I think my Pager went off too….
- TCB - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 2:52 pm:
Fax machine obsolete? Next you’re going to try to convince me that the type-writer I recently accosted is worthless. Hogwash, sir!
- Anonymous - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 3:48 pm:
TCB, I’m very impressed. You even spell the name of that high-tech writing machine the traditional, and proper, way.
- Just The Way It Is One - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 5:30 pm:
Once a thief, always a thief…particularly the dumb ones!!
- Arthur Andersen - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 5:57 pm:
I was wondering what else was snatched along with the fax machine. Ideas included a Furby, Pet Rock collection, autographed foto of Alan Dixon, and a “bag phone.”
- Quizzical - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 9:42 pm:
The burglar is probably huffing the toner right now.
- RNUG - Monday, Jun 3, 13 @ 10:23 pm:
AA,
You forgot to include the orange LED calculator, the transistor radio, a slide rule, and a Paul Powell shoe box.
- Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner - Tuesday, Jun 4, 13 @ 8:58 am:
Can you guys keep it down? I’m listening to the Starland Vocal Band on my 8-track tape player.