From the RCSO’s community watch notice for the week ending 19 September, middle names, dates of birth and addresses for the three dumbasses arrested earlier this month:

Police arrested three college students (John Gregory Fellman, 6/25/83, 7373 Knollwood St. Maplewood; Luke Alan Towle, 1/15/84, 2606 Payne; and Nathan Daniel Harkness, 7/6/83, 1164 Ingerson Road, Arden Hills) at Kellogg and St. Peter as the men were coming out of the underground sewer through a manhole in the street Tuesday, September 13th just after midnight. They were arrested for burglary and terroristic threats. (CN 05-196630)

Punks.

Always embarassing when a government computer gets compromised.

mail.stpaul.gov – - [29/Sep/2005:16:00:18 +0000] “GET /obfuscated.html HTTP/1.0″ 200 5590 “http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q=obfuscated&FORM=QBRE” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)”
mail.stpaul.gov – - [29/Sep/2005:16:00:18 +0000] “GET /_vti_bin/owssvr.dll?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=6254&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0 HTTP/1.0″ 404 285 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)”
mail.stpaul.gov – - [29/Sep/2005:16:00:18 +0000] “GET /MSOffice/cltreq.asp?UL=1&ACT=4&BUILD=6254&STRMVER=4&CAPREQ=0 HTTP/1.0″ 404 285 “-” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1)”

Oops. Bet someone’s going to get yelled at…

Is it possible to fake the number that shows up on a callee’s Caller ID screen? I get a fair number of crank calls, and hang-ups, and wrong numbers… but I just got a hang-up from, I kid you not, “(000) 001-2345″. No idea what that’s all about…

A surprisingly decent piece in the Star Tribune today on Urban Exploration in the Twin Cities area. Truth be told, it’s just the exact same story they, and other, papers have run several times in the past -quotes from a couple explorers, a police spokesperson, and Professor Greg Brick, some mostly-accurate reporting, and a photo or two. Hey, it’s one of Max Action’s rare media appearances; you can also see him, I’m told, in Melody Gilbert’s upcoming Urban Exploration documentary Into the Light, in all his scruffy glory. Well worth $15, if you’re an Action Squad groupie.

Inevitable “what if?” questions and moral grey areas aside, Max gets it right, about the “take only pictures, leave only footprints” thing. That, really, is what UE is about, not leaving big fucking holes blown in doors, or stealing stuff, or damaging and causing vandalism to places.

Rumors abound about the three idiots who were caught trying to blow up a door in a utility tunnel beneath downtown Saint Paul, Minnesota last week. Given little media coverage because charges have yet to be filed against them, that’s expected to change early next week, perhaps as soon as Monday, when city attorneys announce their decision to prosecute the three.

Getting a jump on the competition, the Minneapolis Star Tribune is said to be working on a predictably awful expose of Urban Exploration, what it isn’t and what it isn’t, in tomorrow’s paper. Gotta give them an “A” for effort, anyway. Rumor has it the grandiose, creative ideas hatched by the paper had to be scaled back after the lawyers stepped in with their silly concerns about liability… damn lawyers.