Wide as my screen
Posted on March 12, 2002 @ 11:44 in General
In a strangely postmodern action, yesterday a man walked into the lobby of Amsterdam's tallest building, armed with a machinegun, a handgun and reportedly a big bag of explosives. He initially held hostage 18 people in the lobby of the building, later releasing 7, because he felt that he and everybody else was being duped by widescreen TV producers. He had employees paste slogans on the windows of the building, which read "We mislead", "We lie" and "Kleisterlee lies". Kleisterlee is the director of electronics giant Philips and the building he occupied housed until 6 months ago the headquarters of Philips. His main gripe (although it's all a bit vague still) was that widescreen transmission cause black bands to appear on normal TV sets, which he felt forced him to adopt widescreen television, and which (reportedly) according to him hide information from the viewer.
BBC has got some coverage here, and they call the man mentally ill and a psychiatric patient (also reported on account of a police statement by the Volkskrant), but as of yet that fact is not reported by some other Dutch news media here and here (amongst others).
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