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Tag: human interest

  • An Old Scam With A New Twist

    Please beware –  if you know of some newer users online who might not know about the old Nigerian scams which have now graduated from the mail box to the inbox.

    In these days of post 9/11 money concerns – the threat of being charged with money laundering may scare some into responding to this scam!

    INTERNATIONAL POLICE AUTHORITY UNITED STATES SECTION (IPA)
    Region No. 2 New York City
    P.O. Box 804 Knickerbocker Station
    New York City, New York 10002-0804 USA
    E-mail: [deleted]

    Attn: Sir / Madam

    We, office of the international police authority (IPA) hereby write to inform you that we caught a diplomatic lady called Mrs. Vernon Wallace at (John F Kennedy International Airport) here in New York with a consignment box filed with United State Dollars.

    Meanwhile, base on our interview to the diplomat she said that the consignment box belongs to you, that she was sent by one Williams I. Luis to deliver the consignment box to your doorstep not knowing that the content of the box is money. The diplomat also said that her first transit in the state was at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport Ohio.

    Now, the diplomat is under detention in the office of (IPA) security, and we cannot release her until we carry out our proper investigation on how this huge amount of money managed to be yours before we will release her with the box.. So, in this regards you are to reassure and prove to us that the money you are about to receive is legal by sending us the Award Ownership Certificate showing that the money is not illegal.

    Note, that the Award Ownership Certificate must to be secured from the office of the senate president in Nigeria, because that is the only office that will issue you the original Award Ownership Certificate of this funds, this is because the fund originated from Nigeria.

    You are advised to forward immediately the Award Ownership Certificate if you have it with you, but if you did not have it we will urge you to contact back the sender of the diplomat to help you secure the Award Ownership Certificate if at all you did not have it.

    Below is the contact information of the person that sent the diplomat:

    Name:  Williams I. Luis
    Email:  [deleted]

    Furthermore, we are giving you only but 3 working business days to forward the requested Award Ownership Certificate. Please note that we shall get back to you after the 3 working business days, that if you didn’t come up with the certificate we shall confiscate the funds into World Bank account then charge you for money laundering, but if you forward the Award Ownership Certificate then we will release diplomat with your consignment box also gives you every back up on the money.

    Thanks for your understanding and co-operation

    Yours Truly,

    I.P.A REGION NO:2

    DCP. DOUGLAS  H. KING

    Cc: FEDERAL BUREAU OF INVESTIGATION (FBI).

  • School Reunions

    grow older better queens college yearbook 1961

    [the yearbook met a few flooded basements in it's 50 years]

    Earlier this year a friend asked me if I would co-chair a law school reunion committee with her as it is our 20th!!  I had not been paying attention to the number of years that rolled by since law school – so I was surprised when she said it was 20!  But traveling to to D.C. in April for that weekend was not a possibility and so I declined. 

    The thought of the law school reunion lead me to think back to other dates and I had a major whoops moment when I discovered it will be 50 years this Spring that I graduated from college.

    As I went to Queens College, a public college in New York City, and  do not remember getting anything from them at other memorable dates I wondered if 50 meant anything special…[we New Yorkers are sort of blasé about things like this and I have never gone to any reunion – college, graduate school or law school.]

    Then I received a letter from Queens College and it seems I am invited to 2 50th anniversary events! Commencement, where we get to march in what I call the parade and homecoming weekend – an event that never happened when I went there.

    The map of the campus was strange.  Gone are the Quonset Hut classroom buildings and the old buildings with Spanish-tiled roofs.  In their places are what seem to be modern facilities – with names – with many called "hall."  When I was there – most buildings were labeled with letters: A,B, C, etc.  We did not have a dining "hall" we had the caf and the little caf.

    It would be fun to return just to see what it looks like…I have not been on that campus since about the mid-1960's.

    I've never been to an alumni reunion but a 50th seems "special." The events are in June and October so I have time to think about this.

     

    Comments? Do you go to alumni reunions? 

     

     

     

     

  • April Fool Memories

    In Vermont you get a lot of snow – really a lot of snow!  But schools rarely close unless it's very bad – or unexpected – or both!

    For years prior to Vermont, my son and I played April Fool tricks on each other – usually along the line of trying to get the other to look at some imaginary object or some event that was not happening.

    On April 1 of his year in VT there was a 2-foot snow storm and school was canceled.  I knew he would not be happy if he got up and took a shower only to find out he could have slept in – so I woke him around 5:30 AM to tell him there was no school due to a snow storm.

    His reply was along the lines of "ha ha I know it's April Fool and I am not falling for that."  I suggested he look out the window but as that had been our usual "fool" he refused.  He got up and was heading for a shower and I tried most seriously to again tell him there was no school.

    I forget how I managed to convince him to look out a window – but he finally did. 

    His words were not appropriate for a family-friendly blog so I won't print them

    It was such a funny experience I recall it most every April 1 – and especially on days like today when my friends in New England tell me they got hit with another April Fool snow storm!

    Happy April Fool

    P.S. The story is true and neither my son nor I live in New England anymore….

    What's your favorite April Fool memory? Let us know below in the comments…thanks

  • That’s what friends are for!

    grow older better kittens share

     

    The bed these two are in is a one cat bed…and they both easily fit into it when they were  were adopted at 2 and 3 months of age. 

     

    grow older better kittens

     

     

    But now they are 5 and 6 months old and like people, they have grown but the bed has not….

    Yet when the wind is howling and the house is moving – they both hop into it.

  • Depression and Pets [a cure?]

    cats in a bath tub

    Some of you know that I lost both of my pets last Fall – one died of old age and the other tragically.  I was a mess and I was depressed….for a long time…

    When I was ready – I adopted two kittens – thinking that two would not make me the source of all fun ;) and yup that was the correct thing to do.

    The female kitten [Sassy black ]was about 3 1/2 months and the male [Smokie gray] about 2 1/2 months when I adopted them in late December.

    After getting over being sick and then getting adjusted to a  new place they have taken over my house! 

    Including the bath tub

    And I am not depressed!!

     

    cross posted from http://graywolfproductions.com