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[barbara chambers <bj.chambers@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

on 3/3/05 2:06 PM, Eugene Burreson at gene@xxxxxxxx wrote:

This is all so very, very sad and just what the terrorists had in mind!

Barbara Chambers
Fairfax

> Recently, as part of the Backyard Bird Count, Dave Gillett, Heidi
> Geist and I birded the campus of the Virginia Institute of Marine
> Science, where we work or are students.  The folks at the Coleman
> Bridge toll booth called the county sheriff on us because we were
> "acting suspicious and had binoculars."  After we convinced the
> sheriff we were harmless, we walked down under the Coleman Bridge to
> look for water birds.  On the way back up the hill to VIMS, a state
> policeman pulled up and asked us if we had been under the bridge with
> binoculars and cameras.  Someone had called the state police and also
> reported us as suspicious.  We had just convinced him that we were
> harmless birders when a second state trooper pulled up.  We've become
> a paranoid society!

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