[OT] Real life is always stranger than fiction

[Christopher Chisholm]

it looks like it wasn't so much a typo as an unfortunate case of word-wrap:

	Admin Street1:XXth Floor, B2B Centre #36 *Con*
        Admin Street2:*naught *Road West


still, the chances of that have to be enormously small!  it's kind of 
like when you're 1000 miles away from home and run into someone you knew 
in highschool or something.

-chris

Jon 'maddog' Hall wrote:
> This morning I had a call from the Arizona State Police.  They were
> calling about a person who had a fraud perpetrated against them through
> an email hosting site, and they wanted to find out who owned the site so
> they could find out who had registered at the site, etc.
>
> The email hosting site had the name "Linux" in it, so they naturally
> called me, due to my connection with Linux International.  The Detective
> was quick to say that they did not think that Linux International was
> involved, but the detective was looking for help.
>
> So I went to "whois" and looked up the name and address of the person
> who had registered the email portal and found out that they were in Hong
> Kong.
>
> /* Here is where it gets spooky */
>
> As I read off the address, I realized there was a typo in the street
> address.  It read:
>
>         Admin Street1:XXth Floor, B2B Centre #36 Con
>         Admin Street2:naught Road West
>
> and I realized there was a TYPO in the address.  I have been to Hong
> Kong several times, and there is no "naught Road West", but there is a
> "Connaught Road West".  I have even been on that Road.  So without even
> looking it up, I gave the Detective the right address.
>
> Now if in 1959 you had told a little kid in the third grade of
> Lutherville Elementary School in Lutherville, Maryland, USA that from
> his desk in Amherst, New Hampshire he would be able to tell a police
> detective in Sonoma, Arizona the proper address of a building in Hong
> Kong because he had been there TWICE, that kid would never have believed
> you.
>
> So the next time your kids tell you "I will never go there", or "I will
> never need that information", or "Why should I learn this", you can
> bring up this little story.
>
> You never know what you will need to know in the future, and the world
> is truly "flat".
>
> Warmest regards,
>
> maddog
>
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