larryw@dorsai.com (Winston Lawrence) (11/17/90)
I kept a quote from somewhere regarding the fact that the street finds
its own use for high technology.
The following is taken from the {New York Post} (11/15/90).
A marijuana service - available by dialing 1-800-WANT-POT and run by
the self-ordained "pope of Dope" was snuffed out yesterday by
Manhattan narcotics cops.
Michael "Mickey" Cesar, high priest of the "Church of Realized
Fantasies", was arrested at 120 Walker St., the "church" loft where he
took his takeout calls, said police.
"He had six phones and took 360 calls an hour," said Capt. Thomas Fahey
of Manhattan South Narcotics. "Every phone rang once a minute." "If
you dialed that number, bike messengers would deliver anywhere in
Manhattan. He was the Domino's Pizza of pot dealers."
Cesar, 48, of 675 Hudson St., frequently bragged to cops and reporters
that his pot service pulled in $30,000 a day.
Cops also seized seven pounds of marijuana, which would have brought
in nearly $54,000 at the price he was charging.
<end quote>
No, I didn't try calling the number, I can just imagine what New
York's Finest are now doing with the ANI information provided by the
network. Still, I wonder who the Long Distance Carrier who signed
this one up was.
Winston Lawrence (larryw@Dorsai.com)
**** The street finds its own use for high technology ***
"Ten-four. I'm calling from my mobile phone. A litterer in the car in
front of me just threw a candy wrapper out the window. I will remain
in pursuit of the perpetrator and attempt citizen's arrest."