Lorne: Take care of yourself and ah, make sure fluffy is getting enough love. Gunn: Did he have anything? Fred: No. And who's fluffy? Are you fluffy? Gunn: He called me fluffy? Fred: He said make sure…wait. You don't think he was referring to anything of mine that's fluffy, do you? Because that would just be inappropriate.

'Conviction (1)'


All Ogle, No Cash -- It's Not Just Annoying, It's Un-American

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moonlit - Apr 04, 2003 11:18:52 am PST #3199 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

Those sneaky French ...

Round world runner accused of hitchhiking

A Frenchman is facing deportation from Australia for allegedly hitchhiking and scrounging while pretending to be running around the world.

Sylvain Quenel has been handed over to the Immigration Department after being detained at Eucla on the Western Australia-South Australia border.

Police allege the man had been hitchhiking to towns, then seeking food and other goods while pretending to have made his journey entirely on foot.

Residents along the route reported that the supposed runner had covered more than 40 miles in three hours, reports ABC News.

Story filed: 13:18 Thursday 3rd April 2003


Zoe Ann - Apr 04, 2003 11:28:43 am PST #3200 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.

Huh?
When did hitchhiking become a felony
Who's crazy nanny brain thought that one up?


Dana - Apr 04, 2003 11:29:31 am PST #3201 of 9843
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.

Nothing in that article says anything about him being charged with a felony.


Zoe Ann - Apr 04, 2003 11:31:12 am PST #3202 of 9843
Mathair & Athair beo.

t ignoring Dana

You can't be accused of hitchiking, stupidity yes, but not hitchiking.


DXMachina - Apr 04, 2003 11:32:06 am PST #3203 of 9843
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.

Up until about a month or two ago, when it was rebranded

Augh! What happened to it????

They're calling them Almond Snickers now.


Fay - Apr 04, 2003 11:32:08 am PST #3204 of 9843
"Fuck Western ideologically-motivated gender identification!" Sulu gasped, and came.

I think it's more the fraudulant (which I seem to be unable to spell) behaviour that's the problem - the whole pretending-to-be-a-round-the-world-runner-and-using-this-as-a-pretext-for-getting-strangers-to-give-him-stuff deal. Not the hitchiking per se, but rather the lying and the deceiving people into supporting him.

Or at least, that was my interpretation.

???


moonlit - Apr 04, 2003 11:34:05 am PST #3205 of 9843
"When the world's run by fools it's the duty of intelligence to disobey." Martin Firrell

You got it Fay.


Theodosia - Apr 04, 2003 11:41:36 am PST #3206 of 9843
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"

In the US, it's illegal to hitchhike in quite a few states and you can indeed be picked up by the police for it.


meara - Apr 04, 2003 12:07:10 pm PST #3207 of 9843

Yes, it's illegal to hitchhike in some places. Dunno about Oz, but he was being all fraud-y. And loudly ignoring Dana when she's being calm, reasonable, and right? Kinda rude.

They're calling them Almond Snickers now.

OH! Ok. Well, that's fine then. :)


Cindy - Apr 11, 2003 8:19:04 am PDT #3208 of 9843
Nobody

moonlit - from a gajillion posts ago, that's exactly the type of information I was looking for, but I think time and tide have taken the reason for asking far away from me. But thank you. I think I'm learning more just reading your posts than I ever have.