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’Electrical Tower’ Fugitive Caught
2003-11-02
A man sought by the FBI for allegedly loosening bolts on electricity transmission towers in Northern California was arrested Sunday after he walked into a California Highway Patrol office looking for directions.
Say, can you direct me to the nearest electrical power towers? Ouch! Hey! That hurts!
Michael Poulin, 62, of Spokane, Wash., was taken into custody after an employee recognized him from a wanted poster, said patrol spokesman Tom Marshall.
An ’Employee’? Not an officer?
"Hey, chief! The cafeteria lady sez she wants to talk to you!"
"I wish they were all this dumb easy," Marshall said. Poulin said he was looking for directions to the FBI office in Sacramento and did not resist arrest, Marshall said.
Yeah! I was asking for the FBI office really. You only thought you heard ’electrical towers’.
In a telephone interview with The Associated Press on Sunday morning, Poulin said he only meant to highlight the nation’s insecurity at electrical towers by loosening and removing bolts at eight towers in four states.
Yeah... Right....
Poulin said he intended to turn himself in to the FBI Sunday afternoon.
Thats why he told them where they were. Oh you didn’t get my telepathic broadcasts?
A federal arrest warrant was issued last month for Poulin, charging him with damaging an energy facility. Poulin told the AP he was a little apprehensive about the outcome of the case and had tried, through his attorney, to arrange a surrender. "The attorney general, because this covers any number of jurisdictions, refuses to tell me what I’m facing," Poulin said. "Because the threat of a terrorism charge hangs over me, I could end up in Guantanamo Bay."
Sounds just about right to me.
Poulin is accused of removing and loosening bolts from the legs of a high voltage transmission tower near Anderson on Oct. 20. Bolts also have been loosened or removed from the legs of other transmission towers near Sacramento; Benton City, Wash.; and the Oregon cities of Madras, McNary, Klamath Falls and The Dalles.
This guys isn’t the sharpest knife in the drawer is he?
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