MEN ARRESTED FOR BUYING TOO MANY CELL PHONES

WRONG THINKING IS PUNISHABLE!

Man, doesn't anyone want to wait until someone commits a crime before they call the cops?

In two different instances, middle eastern men were arrested in Michigan and West Virginia for get this: possession of too many cell phones. It's true, in an example that will make the heads of anti-racial-profiling-activists spin like tops, a total of five men have been arrest over the past few days for buying or having in their possession a suspiciously large number of cell phones.

In [http://www.wboy.com/story.cfm?func=viewstory&storyid=12983|an August 10, 2006 article] at WBOY.com, it is reported that:

Last week, the Grafton police pulled over 24-year-old Hashem Sayed for a routine traffic stop. But what they found in his car was far from routine. Patrolman Daniel Laymon recalls the scene, "There were multiple cell phones, roughly 150 to 200 cell phones from multiple retailers," he said.

Buying that many pre-paid phones is not a crime, but the police say it is unusual.

Less than a week later, the authorities in Marietta, Ohio, arrested 20-year-old Osma Sabhi Abulhassan and 20-year-old Ali Houssaiky. Washington County Sheriffs deputies seized several pre-paid cell phones and thousands of dollars in cash. Because of the incidents, Grafton police believe the events are connected.

"The department feels that there are a lot of similar circumstances and there are a lot of similarities between the activity there and the activity experienced here," said Patrolman Laymon.

The activity seems to be more than just a coincidence. All three men are from Dearborn, Michigan and all three gave similar reasons for buying the phones. Sayed said he was buying them to ship to California to sell for a profit. But Washington County's sheriff says that may not be the whole truth. "They are digital for detonating car bombs and they have a particular digital frequency and that's what they're using them for," said Sheriff Larry Mincks.

Wow, isn't it easy to catch badguys when you decide that they are breaking the law even when they are not? So, cell phones are ONLY for detonating car bombs?? That is their only function? What if I were to say that the function of dumb-ass white cracker-cops was to pull reasons to arrest people out of their dumb-asses? Would such a statement be accurate? Or unfair?

But wait! There's more! In [http://www.wnem.com/Global/story.asp?S=5269589|an August 11, 2006 article] from WNEM.com, it's reported that:

Around 1:00am August 11th the three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash.

An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects were headed towards Bad Axe on M-81 where there is another Super Wal-Mart.

The three men are described as being of Palestinian descent but live in Texas. Police say the three, ages 19, 22, and 23 appear to be naturalized citizens.

So, American citizens buying up a stack of cell phones. THIS ISN'T A CRIME, YET, FOLKS!!

Look, I'm not saying they're not planning something bad. But there's a little thing called due cause. And being dark-skinned and having 1000 cell phones in your car does NOT MAKE YOU A TERRORIST!

These guys could be hackers or gadget-fiends like me. Hell, if I had the money, I'd buy ten or twenty of those single-use CVS cameras, install USB ports in them and do all sorts of crazy-ass experiments with them. Like dropping them off of cliffs, or duct taping them to walls and coming back days later.

There are lots of things you could do with the guts of a thousand cell phones and none of them are making bombs. I'm not saying you couldn't make bombs with them, but I can also make a bomb out of Mentos and diet soda.

This is what a police state looks like.

No, it doesn't effect you because you aren't middle eastern--so who cares?

No, it doesn't effect you because, odds are, those guys probably were up to "no good".

No, it doesn't effect you because what freak has a hobby that requires him to mess with hundreds of cell phones? That's a STUPID hobby.

Yeah.

As for the explanation the men actually gave? They "claim" to have bought the cell phones with the intent of turning around and selling them for a profit.

OH MY GOD! THEY'RE CAPITALISTS!! ARREST THEM! PUT 'EM IN JAIL AND THROW AWAY THE KEY!!