From: Stephen F Roberts Subject: last minute planning... Date: 1999/11/17 Message-ID: #1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: snafu@pm5-251.ezf.infi.net Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Complaints-To: abuse@io.com X-Trace: hiram.io.com 942889920 10139 206.156.193.251 (18 Nov 1999 01:52:00 GMT) Organization: The Moose Illuminati Mime-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: wubwub@wildlink.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Nov 1999 01:52:00 GMT Newsgroups: rec.toys.lego ...This is a general post to anyone in the Northern Virginia area... ...As you know, A new LEGO store will be opening in Patomac Mills Virginia on the 19th of this month (Friday). A tactical assault is being planned by members of the Northern Virginia LEGO Train Club/LEGO Users Group (NOVALTC/LUG) on the relatively unfortified positions of the store. ...Prior to gate opening at 10am, members of the LUG will meet outside the store to prepare and make last minute preparations for the mission. ...At gate opening, a large contingent of NOVALUG members will move to secure the opening passages. Smaller squads of 2 to 8 members will then isolate and secure all interesting locations in the store. Extensive intelligence will be gathered and all interesting materials will be collected and extracted from the location. In particular, the location of the proposed 'date bricks' and any other commemorative memorabilia will be secured and sample items extracted. ...Because of the extreme training involved in the teams, casualties are expected to be light to moderate and should not exceed several hundred dollars for this excursion. Resistance is expected to be light, and all store personnel will be cornered and interrogated for any knowledge of future reinforcements or plans for the location. Hostages should not be needed. Equipment shall include cash, checks and credit cards at the team member's discretion with appropriate storage to be gathered on site for any extracted memorabilia. ...As noted above, this tactical assault will consist of a team of trained NOVALUG members. However, because of the scope of the operation, other interested parties are encouraged to join the mission. Interested parties can meet 'on-site' at Patomac Mills neighborhood 8 (near Ikea) at 10am on the 19th for a quick introduction to the group and then join in on the assault. ...If casualties exceed several hundred dollars, or in the event of extreme hunger, the group is planning a retreat to a local 'safe house' hidden in any of the available food establishments of the area to be decided at time of retreat. There, all spoils of war will be evaluated and further plans will be discussed. ...Because of the extreme importance of this event, all interested parties are encouraged to contact NOVALUG for more information. NOVALTC/LUG information can be gathered at http://www.wildlink.com/. --- NOVALTC/NOVALUG/WAMALUG (we aren't sure of our name yet :-) Official-Unofficial Sponsor of the LEGO Store at Patomac Mills :-) --- -- just a thought wubwub aka Stephen F Roberts / \ part time webguy, part time poet, part time writer, full time freelance genius www.wildlink.com \ /