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03-19-2013 10:55 PM |
this one time i was making a bifilar electromagnet for a little science project. this magnet required that i unravel 116 feet worth of copper wire twice, spin the two lines together, then very slowly (it took over an hour) wrap the helical wires around a spool being very careful to get them aligned all nice and pretty. so being that my apartment couldn't have been more than 40 feet long, i took to the streets. i fixed one end to a parking meter (i lived down town) and walked 116 feet away, and began twisting. when i had about 2 feet left to get onto the spool, 4 police cruisers surrounded me, spotlights and everything and one with a bullhorn told me to drop whatever it was that i had in my hand. of course, i asked why. they said that they got a call from someone in a nearby apartment building who had spotted a terrorist rigging a bomb in the parking lot below. i wasn't exactly honoured... if i was going to blow something up, it wouldn't be a parking lot with a capacity of under 50 cars. now, i don't think it's a commonly held misconception/suspicion that i am a terrorist, but i thought it was worth mentioning.
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