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Man Who Claims Brain Was Locked In Computer Charged With Threatening Doctor
WAVE3.com Louisville ^ | April 12, 2005 | Associated Press

Posted on 04/18/2005 3:54:45 AM PDT by billorites

(TERRE HAUTE, Ind.) -- A man who claimed doctors "locked" his brain in a federal computer has been locked in the Vigo County Jail on a charge of threatening a physician.

Kriss L. Rehmel, 38, of Coalmont, was accused of sending letters to several people, including President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, asking them to unlock his brain, which he believes has been controlled by a computer since Sept. 11, 2001, said Vigo County Sheriff Jon Marvel.

The letters claimed Dr. Michael Rader of Terre Haute was to blame. The writer said that he would "blow (Rader's) head off," Marvel said.

Rehmel was charged with felony intimidation. He appeared Monday in Vigo County Superior Court where a judge set his bail at $200,000.

Vigo County Sheriff's Department Lt. Tim Gossett arrested Rehmel on a warrant last week in Monroe County, where he had been ordered to immediate detention for 72 hours in Bloomington Hospital.

The first of the series of typed letters was received on or about March 4 by officials at the Vigo County facility of Pfizer Inc., where Rehmel formerly worked, Gossett said.

Police said Rehmel was apparently angry over back surgery he had while working for Pfizer.

Rader, Pfizer's corporate doctor, suggested Rehmel have the surgery, Marvel said.

According to the letters, Rehmel believed doctors "locked" his brain into a computer "to keep him mentally and physically controlled" and "tortured" by the computer, said Marvel.

A Secret Service agent was in Terre Haute on Monday to interview Rehmel, Gossett said.

Marvel said his department was taking the threats seriously. "This is the type of person we just can't ignore," he said.


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1 posted on 04/18/2005 3:54:45 AM PDT by billorites
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To: billorites

Al Gore has made the same claim for years.


2 posted on 04/18/2005 4:04:18 AM PDT by Loyal Buckeye
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To: billorites
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Rehmel believed doctors "locked" his brain into a computer ...

Can't be fatal. My 17 YO's brain is locked into a 1998 Midnight Blue Chevy S-10...

3 posted on 04/18/2005 4:08:49 AM PDT by elli1
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To: billorites
"This is the type of person we just can't ignore,"

No, you can't. He's obviously psychotic. He needs to go to Happy Acres, and stay there for a long time.


4 posted on 04/18/2005 4:09:21 AM PDT by Nick Danger (You can stick a fork in the Mullahs... they're done)
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To: billorites
"Marvel said his department was taking the threats seriously. "This is the type of person we just can't ignore," he said."

Any relation to Captain Marvel, you think?

These many articles in which the variuos police spokesmen or officials continually make assinine statements to the media, indicates that instead of PC training, they are in need of "how not to be baited into saying something stupid to a ditzy reporter, or reporterette" classes.

5 posted on 04/18/2005 4:10:34 AM PDT by G.Mason (If you are broken ... it is because you are brittle.)
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To: cjshapi

I've been a slave to the computer for more than a decade, but I've not had my brain locked up by one ... yet.


6 posted on 04/18/2005 4:11:01 AM PDT by Junior (“Even if you are one-in-a-million, there are still 6,000 others just like you.”)
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To: billorites
A man who claimed doctors "locked" his brain in a federal computer ...

I'd be upset too. His brain should have been locked up in state or local computer.

7 posted on 04/18/2005 4:11:08 AM PDT by Moonman62 (Federal creed: If it moves tax it. If it keeps moving regulate it. If it stops moving subsidize it)
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To: billorites
Rehmel believed doctors "locked" his brain into a computer Kriss L. Rehmel, 38, of Coalmont, was accused of sending letters to several people, including President Bush, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels, asking them to unlock his brain, which he believes has been controlled by a computer since Sept. 11, 2001, said Vigo County Sheriff Jon Marvel. ...

Hey Kriss...join the club ;-)

8 posted on 04/18/2005 4:12:39 AM PDT by infocats
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To: elli1

My 18 year old boys brains are are locked onto a short haired brunette 17 year old Fort Worth girl that wears little white tank tops.


9 posted on 04/18/2005 4:14:09 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Junior

"...but I've not had my brain locked up by one ... yet."

Thank you for assuring us all of that. [Sigh in relief.]

Feel free to cyber-smack me for being such a smart alec.

--FReegards....


10 posted on 04/18/2005 4:19:04 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: Willie Green

Thought you might be interested. FReegards....


11 posted on 04/18/2005 4:19:55 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: DainBramage

Yes, my brain seems to be missing at times. It just wanders off.


12 posted on 04/18/2005 4:22:58 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: DainBramage

I guess you could say I have 'free range brains'.


13 posted on 04/18/2005 4:23:33 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: Arthur Wildfire! March

'free range brains'

Where the deer and the antelope play.


14 posted on 04/18/2005 4:49:29 AM PDT by Socratic (Ignorant and free? It's not to be. - T. Jefferson (paraphrase))
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To: billorites
According to the letters, Rehmel believed doctors "locked" his brain into a computer "to keep him mentally and physically controlled" and "tortured" by the computer, said Marvel.

And that's a bad thing ??


15 posted on 04/18/2005 5:00:09 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
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To: Junior

I think he was confused. He should have asked them to GIVE him a brain.


16 posted on 04/18/2005 5:02:35 AM PDT by cjshapi
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To: COUNTrecount

His claim is valid. The Religious Right has mastered the art and science of locking people's brains into Jerry Falwell's PDA. How else do you explain recent political results?

John Kerry


17 posted on 04/18/2005 5:03:48 AM PDT by ReadyNow
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To: Socratic

'free range brains'

Where the deer and the antelope play.

Where they trample my thoughts

When I visit the Zots

And my sanity slips each day!

[Just messing around. I am QUITE SANE. REALLY! And I don't say it enough times!]


18 posted on 04/18/2005 5:05:04 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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To: DainBramage

My 18 year old boys brains are are locked onto a short haired brunette 17 year old Fort Worth girl that wears little white tank tops.

And hip-hugging Aeropostle's...Yeh, that too. My kid has the networking thingie figgered out. Somehow involves the use of a cell phone. Way too complicated for me. : )

19 posted on 04/18/2005 5:05:12 AM PDT by elli1
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To: ReadyNow

"Bush STOLE our brains! He played on OUR FEARS!"

Algore


20 posted on 04/18/2005 5:06:09 AM PDT by Arthur Wildfire! March (<<<< Profile page streamlined, solely devoted Schiavo research)
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