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When the shooting began, staff members at the News and Sentinel were putting their latest issue to bed, and Harrigan was on his way back from Lancaster, where he had been filling in on that paper for a staff member whose mother had died. "I heard the whole thing unfolding on my police radio," recalls Harrigan. "At one point I was on the car phone to the office manager, and I said, 'I fear the worst.' And he said, 'It is the worst.'" When Harrigan arrived back at 1 Bridge Street, he tried to restore order to chaos...
...accused of egregious violence, in this episode he opted swiftly for the victim. He also announced plans for six months of town meetings between New Yorkers and every one of the city's 38,000 officers. Maybe all that talk could have been avoided if the cops had earlier heard a clearer statement about brutality from the mayor's office...
...glimpse of the nightmares to come. On Thanksgiving weekend in 1995, someone (presumably a critic of a book my wife and I had just written about computer hackers) forwarded my home telephone number to an out-of-state answering machine, where unsuspecting callers trying to reach me heard a male voice identify himself as me and say some extremely rude things. Then, with typical hacker aplomb, the prankster asked people to leave their messages (which to my surprise many callers, including my mother, did). This went on for several days until my wife and I figured out that something...
...would need an additional $1,000 fee before her money could be released. "It seemed such a small amount compared to $74,000," says Downs, that she sent it too. Only then did the scamming stop. Downs never got any money back, of course, but at least she never heard from Hastings again...
...SEEN & HEARD...