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Eat lead

At Meryl Yourish, Laurence Simon notes a new way to complain about poor cellular service

They said around 20 gunmen entered the building saying their cellphone memory cards were not working. A short while later they began shooting, damaging over 10 computers but causing no casualties.

But shooting guns is not just a way to express outrage at bad cell service. (BTW I don't fire guns when Cingular drops me because 1) it's usually in a remote place where there's no one else around so there's no point and 2) I don't own a gun.)

It's also part of a somber reflection on those who have recently died

Palestinians shoot their guns in the air during the funeral of five militants,

I'm guessing that this isn't the best time to be firing weapons given the number of people covering their ears.

But if the Palestinians are so poor, how can they afford to waste so many bullets? It seems that they've chosen guns over butter. What's left? To eat lead (literally)?

UPDATE: Carnival of the Cordite #30 linked here.

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