"You’re not a threat and you are doing a public service but just be careful next time,” FBI Agent David Pileggi to Michael Galindo, who took a photo of a thundercloud over an oil refinery near Houston, TX. (Via The Agitator)
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10:44 am Mon
Oct 8, 2012
FBI questions man for taking a photo of a cloud
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