God-fearing villagers snub "satanic" bar codes

from yahoo

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A hundred residents of a Russian village have refused to switch to new passports because they believe the documents' bar codes contain satanic symbols, state television reported Wednesday.

"We believe these new passports are sinful," Valentina Yepifanova, an elderly resident of the village Bogolyubovo, told Rossiya television as she clutched an old, tattered passport she said she wanted to keep.

"They have these bar codes and people say they contain three sixes. We are against that."

Some residents of Bogolyubovo, which means "God-loving" in Russian, have also stopped collecting their pensions at the local post office because the payment slips also have bar codes that might contain the mark of the devil, Rossiya TV reported.

*hand/forehead*

oh no....someone figured it out

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Originally Posted by karyn

"They have these bar codes and people say they contain three sixes. We are against that."

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LyKe OmG, tHeY hAvE BaR CoDeS!!!!one one !!!11!! :dodgy:

"Bogolyubovo" is enough for me.

WTF? Ok someone is smoking the crack

Well, if you look closely at barcodes, it does appear that the "un-marked" digits are in fact 6s, but tha't probably just a concidence.