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Man who entombed Verizon worker gets probation, anger management

Because no one was physically injured or worse, headline writers such as yours truly felt able to characterize the August 2013 incident thusly: “Verizon worker thankful 911 operator could hear him now.”

Today the 73-year-old Massachusetts man who perpetrated the criminal act against that Verizon worker must be equally thankful that a lenient judge has sentenced him to only a year of probation plus an apparently long-overdue anger management class.

From a story in the Worcester Telegram & Gazette:

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It’s hitting the fan: Anger mounts over PRISM, NSA spying scandals

A bipartisan group of senators introduced a bill yesterday that would end the “secret law” that keeps government surveillance programs in the shadows.
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