Capturing the Friedmans
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He made me format it.
I formatted it.

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I had to bring my computer
in and show him

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that I hadn't brought it home.
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So he was absolutely positive,
100%, that it was not

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touched at all in any way,
form, shape whatsoever.

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And how did he know that
you brought it home?

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He accounted for
all the disks that were there.

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And since he flipped
through, he's like,

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"Who the fuck took this? Tell me
now, or I'm gonna kill you all!"

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And he had a knife, and he
was waving a knife around.

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I was like, "I did it!"
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My general recollection
of the classes

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is basically a positive one,
is a pleasant one.

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The types of behaviors
which were described,

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which were, well, just
downright satanic in nature.

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I mean, they make him sound like
some kind of brutal sadist,

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whereas, you know, I had just
always thought of him

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as being kind of a nebbish.
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I think, as someone
who took the classes,

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it was just hard to picture
even that going on,

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because I did have
a good experience.

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And I didn't, you know,
see anything, you know,

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remotely like,
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you know, like child
molestation

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or child abuse or any
child anything going on.

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What took place in
Arnold's classes

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was pretty much just
straight computer lessons.

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I mean, as ordinary
and as boring

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as you could
possibly imagine it.

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It was just generally
a free-for-all.

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Everybody could see
what was going on,

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and very often they
would participate

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in these sort of mass games
in the classroom.

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There was a game there
that was called "Leapfrog. "

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And this one really got to me.
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They would play
leapfrog in the class.

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They'd actually have
their clothes off.

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And we associate leapfrog like
you do when you were a kid,

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one guy jumping over another
guy, but the fact is

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it means everybody's butt's
up in the air, so to speak.

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The very nature of these
charges is so absurd.

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It seems almost like some
kind of grotesque fantasy.

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Yeah. Leapfrog.
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I remember about that.

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