From: utzoo!watmath!watarts!geo Newsgroups: net.sf-lovers Title: Re: Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate Article-I.D.: watarts.1511 Posted: Wed Sep 22 23:06:30 1982 Received: Fri Sep 24 00:16:40 1982 References: csu-cs.1863 Speaking of computers killing people, I read an article a couple of years ago about a man who pulled to the side of the road on one of your tightly policed florida tolled highways. (We don't have them here, so I don't know what you really call them.) Apparently he was just coming back from his father's funeral. A florida state trooper saw his car, and radioed in the liscense number. Apparently the programme that assigns liscense numbers in florida reassigned him the number of a car that had been stolen in 1971. When the trooper radioed in the number he was told it was for a stolen car. He came up to the man's car with his pistol drawn, and when the man seemed unco-operative, (Perhaps he was still overcome with grief, we will never know for sure now) the nervous State Trooper shot him dead. I know this isn't science fiction, but I had to submit it when someone asked for references to fictional stories about computer programmes killing people.