A previously popular purveyor of pictograms was paused by police.
California, USA – Rubberneckers and rattled residents rallied outside the reproached rune retailer as enforcers ended the egregious enterprise. The foreclosure follows a formal ferment, foisted onto federal forces against fraud and fakery (otherwise known as the US Customs and Border Protection agency).
“I’m completely confounded”, concerned citizen Heather Hinton hailed, “I remember buying a bag of words just last week to throw into my next batch of Linkedin posts”. Another attendee Allen Ambdahl articulated, “This is unbelievable, where am I going to get my characters from now? I’ve got a hand-made Pratt parser at home, and now its just sitting there like a paper weight”. And coming from the corner of the chaotic crowd, Chris Catmull cried, “I say good riddance to that reprobate; his glyphs were never good, the tokens were terrible, and his emblems expensive.”
Shock was felt in the rabble as agents began carrying away several regex engines, numerous markov chains, and even a small sum of what appeared to be head /dev/urandom command calls. Later, as agents began collecting the many copied characters, the crowd became visibly more vivacious. Proclamations from passersby included, “That one on the left, that’s from the ending to Fellowship of the Ring”, and “Hey wait a minute, that’s my hash function! I thought I had lost it”.
The peddler of pictograms has experienced recent rigmarole, including a large lawsuit, and even an embarrassing exposé.
The owner of the organization, local letter merchant Dario Amodei, was not nearby. He has hear-tell not been seen for several days, and his where-a-bouts is presently pending.