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Jeff Liebermann  <jeffl@comix.santa-cruz.ca.us> wrote:
>On Tue, 02 Mar 2004 16:05:03 GMT, Mike Hardcore wrote:
>>On 2 Mar 2004 04:12:48 -0800, metroboyeh10@yahoo.com (John Mann) wrote:
>
>>>Tim May <timcmay@removethis.got.net> wrote:

>>(snip)
>>>> bridges into the dry river bottom below. Or shoot them with bazookas. 

>>>Uh...lemme get this straight; in 1982, a common way of dealing with
>>>the homeless in Santa Cruz was to shoot them with *bazookas*?

>>Oh man... I've heard about this from a couple of my club memebers that
>>grew up here, but not the whole story.  Does anyone know the full
>>story behind the bazooka incident?  I laughed till I thought I was
>>going to shit the first time I heard it.

>I couldn't find anything on the web that far back.  However, I was
>around to read about it in the papers.  As best as I can recall, a
>teacher from one of the high schools instigated the construction of
>what was designated a "bazooka".  Several of his students then decided
>to use it on one of the local trolls.  I recall that it happened under
>a bridge and that they did hit their target.

	It was a 'spud gun' or whatever you choose to call it.
A piece of PVC, pour lighter fluid in it, add projectile and
ignite fluid.

	As I recall, it was used along Old Santa Cruz Highway
on some guy walking along the road.  He was resident, not a bum.
They nailed him in the back with a can that was shot out of the 
gun.  He was injured bad enough to be taken to the hospital and
the kids were caught.  They told the cops something about "troll
hunting."

>It wouldn't have
>attracted much attention except that someone whom I know, decided to
>fabricate t-shirts with "Troll Busters" on them.  They sold out
>immediately.  That's what got the media and activists attention.  I
>don't recall what happened to the perpetrators or the victim.

	It attacted attention because the incident made the local
papers right after it happened.  The t-shirts came later.

Bobbi

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