Jason R. Pascucci wrote:
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> This has surpassed my personal wierdness quotient. All followups directed to
> alt.slack.
The San Diego County District Attorney's Office
refused to confirm or deny rumors that poison gas
cannisters traced to Texas had been found at the
scene of yesterday's Rancho Santa Fe mass
suicide.
Sources close to the investigation indicated that
pressure tanks labeled "Church Air" had been found
in the mansion where 39 young computer
programmers apparently committed suicide. One
tank was reported to have a shipping tag with a
Texas return address. There were also unconfirmed
reports of a handwritten note attached to the
cannisters.
A neighbor who asked not to be identified said that
the young men and women who lived in the seven
bedroom house addressed each other as "Bobbie",
and spent many hours each day hooked up to the
Internet. "I think that's where they got all these crazy
ideas," another resident of the upscale
neighborhood said.
"Sometimes they said their leader was a guy named Robert
J. Dobbings and that he was in Southeast Asia or Malaysia
or someplace, but then other times they stated he had been
assassinated by some guy from Texas." The neighbors also
said that the "Bobbies" claimed to have evidence of a vast
conspiracy involving huge corporations and the Federal
Government.
"They talked a lot about something they called 'The
Con' but then they also talked about a small group
of old guys in Arkansas and Texas who they claimed
had tried to take over the church. They were always
saying about how they had to rescue the church
from some guy named Irwin Strong," the neighbors
said.
"These Bobbies figured that since this Strong or
Strang guy was so old and feeble that they could
just shove him out of the way and take over this nut
cult that he apparently runs out of some foundation
in Ft Worth or Austin," a source close to the
investigation said. "Looks like their plans may have
hit a snag."
Law enforcement officials would not confirm that
they were investigating a Post Office Box address in
Ft. Worth, TX, thought to be home town of Irwin
Strong. The note attached to the gas cannisters said
in part, "Have some REAL slack, boys and girls!"
and is thought by investigators to have been written
in a code devised by the cult.
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