August 14, 2008

Apparent Hot Cop Arrests Half-Dozen

Because there isn't anything else going on, or whatever, the Bristol Township police force has been cracking down on prostitution recently, including reverse prostitution stings. Oh, I'll just let the Courier Times describe it:

Police said they had to wait until money and sex were mentioned before making an arrest. Customers waiting to talk to a “prostitute” aren't breaking the law, they said. Stings involving “working girls'' increase in the summer, police said, because street walkers work out in the open and are easier to spot. [...] It was the third time in recent weeks that area police said an undercover “prostitute” was used to capture “johns” — the slang for a hooker's customers.

Looks like someone just discovered how to make quote marks! Six people were arrested, and it could have been more, but the fake prostitute was just too hot.

But Saturday's Special Investigations Division undercover operation, also known as a “reversal” because a real prostitute isn't in the picture — went smoothly.

And there “could've been a seventh'' arrest, several cops said, except that the potential customer rear-ended another vehicle while staring in the rearview mirror of his SUV. Police said he probably was looking at the undercover female officer, who was wearing tight-fitting shorts while negotiating with a man in a car.

So, uh, the cops went out to harass weirdos looking for sex on the street and ended up causing a car crash. Nice work, officers!

Police crack down on prostitution [Bucks County Courier Times]

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August 06, 2008

Dunkin' Donuts Colors Called 'Shocking'

Yesterday, officials in Milford Township, Bucks County, finally approved a drive-through Dunkin' Donuts just off the Quakertown Exit of the Pennsylvania Turnpike. The doughnut shop was approved after changing the design to a "colonial architectural style that would fit in with the Upper Bucks township."

What was the problem with the original Dunkin' Donuts? Well, you can read for yourself:

“You drive around our state and others and the villages and towns are a hodgepodge and are ugly. This keeps us neat,” said Supervisor Tim Damiani.

It also means the store will be designed with more muted, earth-tone colors, and not the bright orange familiarly associated with the chain.

Original plans for the location called for a flat 1950s-style roof with “shocking, startling colors,” said township manager Jeff Vey, so township officials requested the developer rework the design

There really is nothing more frightening than the orange and hot pink. If an NFL team picked those as their colors, they'd go 19-0 and win the Super Bowl every year.

Officials OK new doughnut shop [The Intelligencer]
Thanks, Joe

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June 25, 2008

The Great Chick-O-Stick Prison Scandal

Two inmates in Bucks County prison have filed a grievance against high snack prices in the commissary. The Intelligencer explains their complaint:

Ryan Barrie and Ryan Kerwin have each filed a grievance citing a “price fixing/monopoly scandal” against the correctional facility and the Keefe Commissary Network, which supplies snack food for inmates. [...] The main beef, according to their complaint, which they mailed to the newspaper, is the cost of an Atkinson's Chick-O-Stick, an orange-colored, crunchy peanut butter and toasted coconut candy. It previously sold for 40 cents but the price was raised to “an unbelievable $0.90 overnight,” the complaint says.

The other item specified in their complaint is the three-ounce package of Maruchan Ramen noodle soup. It sells for 18 cents in state prisons but is 95 cents in Bucks County jail, the inmates wrote. “Why and how is Keefe allowed to offer the same product, in the same region, with such a great price differential?” the complaint asks.

A 50-cent price raise on Chick-O-Stick?! Simply unconscionable. Forget about prison overcrowding in Philadelphia, where are the lawyers fighting for the inmate rights to cheaper Chick-O-Stick and ramen noodles?

Prison inmates complain of snack 'scandal' [The Intelligencer]

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June 12, 2008

Buxco Teen/Parent Sex Romp

Above are the mugshots of Lynne Long (left) and Angela Honeycutt, who were charged yesterday with several crimes stemming from a sleepover at Long's house in Lower Makefield. Honeycutt allegedly had sex with a 15-year-old in the shower while Long encouraged other kids there to listen in.

The woman, a friend of the mother whose son hosted the April 11 party, allegedly talked sex with the boys and kissed a 15-year-old boy before saying, “Who wants to take a shower?”

She then had intercourse with the teen in the shower and later engaged in sexual acts with a 14-year-old boy in the shower, police said.

All the while, the homeowner and mother of the party's host was listening with some of the boys — ages 14 to 16 — to the moaning in the bathroom, police said. The mother allegedly told the boys, “You can't tell anyone.”

They're both charged with a litany of crimes, as you might've be able to guess. Conversations involving the word MILF are at present up 900 percent in the area.

Cops: Teen sleepover became sex romp [Bucks County Courier Times]

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May 30, 2008

McCain Postpones Area Visit

In an attempt to make a throwaway morning post all that much harder, John McCain has postponed his Bucks County "town hall" meeting until Monday. Let's hope this will give more time for people with hilarious questions to come up with them.

Scary old McCain -- I saw one of his new ads on Jeopardy! I wasn't sure if it was John McCain for President, or The Happening. will visit Worth & Company in Pipersville, Bucks County.

There is obviously a backstory here: Worth & Co. is, naturally, under investigation by the state for allegedly violating the Prevailing Wage Law, cheating its employees out of $142,000 in wages. John McCain will no doubt berate the company and its employees during his visit, and then go to Sesame Place for some kick-ass water slides.

McCain to visit area firm [The Intelligencer]
Town Hall Meeting in Pipersville, PA [JohnMcCain.com]

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May 20, 2008

Man Wrestles Deer In Hair Salon

Philly Edge's Joe Student passed along a tale of some "breaking news" in Quakertown: A man wrestling with a deer.

Randy Goepfert, 36, had just finished paying for his haircut at Holiday Hair in Quakertown Plaza off Route 309 when he heard a loud thump. He turned around and saw that a buck with four to six inch antlers had rammed against the salon’s glass window. A second later the deer burst through the glass door within feet of two young children, sending employees and the handful of customers shrieking.

“I was like, ‘Oh my God!,’ ” said 9-year-old William Frei of Haycock, who was playing a hand-held video game in a waiting area when the deer rammed through the door within a yard of him. “Me and my mom jumped on our chairs.”

As the deer slid and stamped about, knocking shampoo and mouse bottles from a display rack, Goepfert, a sturdily-built 5-foot-10, tackled the animal and gripped it in a headlock. He wrestled with the animal for about two minutes, but the deer eventually kicked him hard in the back and broke free.

Hey, instead of just saying, "Won't someone think of the children," Goepfert went out there and protected the children. By putting a deer in a headlock. "I didn’t get one during hunting season,” Goepfert said. "And then here's one today." Indeed. Somebody give that man a medal.

BREAKING: Patron protects children as deer barrels into Quakertown hair salon [The Intelligencer]

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May 06, 2008

Partying 'Til You Just Have To Rob Somebody

The above photo, KYW 1060 reports, is of 31-year-old Andre Smith, partying Saturday night at a Bensalem bar. He saw some women, "injected himself into their conversation" and snapped a few photos. He was later kicked out of the bar, missing out on any more $2 pints.

Later, he allegedly robbed the women at a nearby convenience store. He was caught on Sunday and is charged with robbery and related offenses. Whoops.

Fingered by his own photo [KYW 1060]

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May 05, 2008

A Criminal Mastermind

Earlier this year, Mary Jane Fonder allegedly murdered Rhonda Smith because she thought her pastor was giving the woman too much attention. In court on Friday, prosecutors made their initial case and issued a copy of Fonder's daily planner from Jan. 23, the day of the murder:

Written inside the dated block were these three entries: “Rhonda Murder Hairdresser”

If you're going to commit a murder, please don't write it in your planner. Everyone knows you should use your Palm Pilot to plan your murders.

'Rhonda - murder - hairdresser' [The Intelligencer]

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April 09, 2008

Al-Qaeda Will Never Take Our Dippin' Dots

You can feel safe, area shoppers! Oxford Valley Mall recently held a mock terrorism drill, in case al-Qaeda ever decides it has a serious grudge against Forever 21.

The drill started about a month ago when police learned that a fictitious organization with a grudge against corporate America was targeting an area mall.

Since then, they received information that it was the Oxford Valley Mall that was targeted, and now they are playing out how they will handle that threat.

Things apparently went well, no one was harmed (due to it being a fictional drill) and no one will ever think of attacking the Oxford Valley Mall ever.

Police Hold Mock Terrorism Drill at Oxford Valley Mall [KYW 1060]

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April 07, 2008

Town Scraps 'Pervert-Free Zone' Idea

The tiny borough of Trumbauersville, Bucks County (pop. roughly 1,000) apparently has a big problem with -- get this! -- sex criminals. They must! The borough recently considered restricting where registered sex offenders could live in town, so it's clearly a big problem in town.

The idea was scrapped for various reasons, mainly because the borough doesn't have the money to fight the inevitable lawsuit restricting those convicted of sex crimes from living in the town at all. (At 0.4 square miles, pretty much any law would restrict sex offenders from living anywhere.) Also, Borough Council President Ed Child realized the ridiculousness of such a "feel-good law": "What difference does it make how far away from [schools or parks a sex offender] can live... when we can't control where they go?"

Hey, that's some top-notch thinking there, Eddie! It's better to be sensible than to just follow what NBC scares you about. And... oh.

[T]he borough briefly considered enforcing what Child jokingly called a “pervert-free zone.” Instead of restricting registered sex offenders by residence, it would have restricted where they could go.

Trumbauersville scrapped the idea, realizing the "even murkier legal territory" it would be in with such a law, and not that the idea would be impossible to enforce. Won't someone please think of the children and ban all perverts from America soon? That would solve the problem.

Restrictions for sex offenders on hold [The Intelligencer]
[Image via some ridiculous t-shirt store apparently from 1996]

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April 04, 2008

Deaf Woman Scammed, Defamed

Recently in Bucks County, 41-year-old Nancy Hellyer was sentenced to up to 10 years in prison for stealing $100,000 from a deaf couple in Upper Southampton.

Hellyer also convinced Heather Goldstein to quit her job with the IRS and come work for her. Her first paycheck bounced. The con artist clearly doesn't deserve much pity, but I don't think we need to make her any worse than she actually is and make all deaf people seem like incompetent rubes at the same time. Right?

The victims gave the judge a letter that was not read in open court, but [Judge Albert] Cepparulo noted that Heather Goldstein said in the letter that Hellyer convinced her to quit her job at the Internal Revenue Service to come work for her, but that her first paycheck bounced.

“Now, she can't find a job because she is deaf. Think about that,” Cepparulo told Hellyer.

Our little con artist friend Nancy didn't, um, make Goldstein deaf. Right?

And it seems to me that she's been able to get at least two jobs: The one at the IRS, and the fake one that didn't pay.

Woman gets up to 10 years for defrauding deaf couple [Bucks County Courier Times]

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April 02, 2008

Police Arrest Suspect In Church Murder

On Jan. 23, a woman was found shot to death at the Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church in Springfield, Bucks County. Yesterday, the police arrested the alleged murderer and say she shot the victim because she was getting more attention from the pastor.

State police say Mary Jane Fonder, 65, thought Rhonda Smith was getting more attention from the Rev. Gregory Shreaves and believed there was a romantic relationship as well. (There wasn't, cops say.) So she went to the church before her hair salon appointment and allegedly shot her twice.

The Rev. had rebuffed her advances and had her number blocked. And why not: "Once, she went into his unlocked house, leaving food in his refrigerator," the Courier-Times writes. This is the kind of scandal you don't get in a Catholic Church, at least.

Police: Jealousy spurred murder [Bucks County Courier Times]

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March 10, 2008

Obama To Visit Pa. Tomorrow, Too

Hey, Barack Obama isn't letting Scranton's own Hillary Clinton get all the local attention here tomorrow. Obama's gonna be in town, too!

Clinton takes the stage at night at Temple, but Obama will be at the old steel plant in Fairless Hills tomorrow. He'll be touring Gamesa Wind Turbines, which probably makes wind turbines. Then he's going to get on a diving board and cannonball right into the nearby GROWS landfill.

Dept. of How Do We Cover This?: Barack Obama to be in Bucks County on Tuesday [Philly EDGE]

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March 05, 2008

Ashlee Simpson Disses Mascot

When celebrities come to Philadelphia, they don't just visit department stores. They also turn down photo requests from mascots. Last November, Paris Hilton turned down a photo request from a groundhog from the state's tourism bureau; security also made him remove his groundhog head. Thousands of children scarred.

Ashlee Simpson appeared at a Wal-Mart in Bucks County Monday afternoon, hawking copies of her new single. The Courier-Times also turns into The Insider for a moment:

“She got bad directions,” a publicist explained, dismissing a rumor that Simpson's people had driven her to the wrong Wal-Mart.

Translation: Ashlee Simpson was driven to the wrong Wal-Mart.

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February 29, 2008

Demons! Well, Okay, Not Demons

Ahh, remember how the all the local media reports on the church vandalism in Bucks County were about how a pair of "demons" showed up at a church. The police wouldn't even report the demons' names so as not to taint the investigation.

Anyway, it looks like it was just a bunch of stupid kids! Everyone already knew this anyway, but it's more fun to write about demons and devils and whatever other shit was printed.

Four kids from Falls were arrested for allegedly vandalizing Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church earlier this month. There was also graffiti all over the area, but, you know, demons. Oh, and when one of the kids parents apologized the church was all like "OMGWTFHOWDAREYOU!!"

“He's not a demon. He's not a monster. This was not a hate crime,” Klein said. “He's a smart kid who made a stupid mistake.” Klein said the vandalism had nothing to do with religion. He said Stetson's parents are “mortified” but standing behind their son.

“Harry has never even tagged [done graffiti] before,” Klein said. “He bowed to peer pressure that night. He's very sorry and willing to scrub it off if the church will let him.” It's too late for that, said Kay McFarland, a spokeswoman for the parish.

“We took care of that already. We're not going to let that kind of hatred and dirt stay on our statues. Come on, we weren't going to leave that on our church,” she said.

Let's just throw these stupid kids in jail for 30 years so they can be in prison with the rest of us. DEMONS!

Teens charged with church vandalism [Bucks County Courier Times]

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February 28, 2008

Pol-Threatening Newest Hot Crime

First demons, now this guy. Something is going on in Bucks County!

The county north of Philadelphia is well known for being shaped like a short fat man's boot, but maybe there is something more sinister going on. The demons who vandalized churches have been caught, it seems, but now 49-year-old Katsuo Matsui Clark of Bensalem is terrorizing Buxco.

According to Bensalem police, Clark was meeting with state Sen. Tommy Tomlinson, who -- like most politicians -- has been in office since 1642. Sometime before, he had told Tomlinson (at the funeral home he owns, natch) that neither he nor Bensalem mayor Joseph DiGirolamo had much security and to watch out. For some reason, apparently Tomlinson took a meeting with him later, just to be nice or something, and Clark told Tomlinson to look under the couch cushions to see what he could do; the senator found a hunting knife and a cap gun!

I'm not totally positive about the timeline above; things are a little confusing in the Bucks County Courier Times story, and with good reason. The cops didn't even want this in the newspaper!

Bensalem Public Safety Director Fred Harran declined to comment on the specifics of the case. In fact, Harran did not publicize the charges against Clark in the police department's daily press releases to the media because he said he's concerned about the possibility of “copycat” crimes.

“I didn't want to comment on security issues knowing this would start a media frenzy,” Harran said Wednesday morning. “We don't want to make too many comments on this particular case. I don't want to sensationalize the case.”

They must be in a lot of danger. Man, how much do people hate the mayor and state senator in Bensalem? This isn't apparently just one man with mental and other issues, there's a whole mob out to get those two. (It's like Resident Evil 4, only instead of disease-infected Spaniards it's dudes with cap guns. These guys must be awesome politicians to keep getting re-elected, though.

Cops: Officials threatened [Courier Times]

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February 25, 2008

Possible Demon Arrested, Charged

There is now more information on the area's demon infestation; authorities in Bucks County revealed more info over the weekend about one of the possible demon vandals. Sandralee Banks-Kastrup, 40, was arrested Thursday night was undergoing a psychiatric evaluation.

The Bucks County Courier Times was nice enough to print all the weird shit she said:

Inside the court on Trenton Road in Middletown, Banks-Kastrup questioned why officers weren't arresting other people in the court lobby for “killing Brittany.” She told three retail theft suspects who were in handcuffs on a nearby bench that she was God and her daughter was the mother of Jesus Christ.

She repeatedly asked police to take off her handcuffs, but was told that rules of procedure require suspects to be handcuffed during arraignment. “I don't care about your rules; I made the rules,” she responded curtly.

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February 22, 2008

Demons Still On Loose In Buxco

The Inquirer gives us more today on the Satanic cult vandalizing churches in Bucks County.

Cops arrested one woman, according to the Inky's Larry King, but are on the lookout for, uh, demons. 40-year-old Sandralee Banks-Kastrup was arrested for vandalizing St. Michael the Archangel church, but cops want to round up more demons to burn at the stake or try for vandalism or whatever. No names, though:

In recalling his encounter with the purported "demons," [St. Mike's Pastor Fr. Michael] DiIorio said that it was not threatening, but that it came back to mind during the recent desecrations. "There was nothing remarkable in their dress or demeanor," DiIorio recalled. "I greet every person in church after the liturgy at the main door. They made themselves last in line."

When the two visitors reached him, he said, they told him that they wanted him to know "that they had moved into the area and that now they will be here." When DiIorio asked if they wanted to register with the parish, "they had no intention of doing so." Instead, he said, "they described themselves by names of demons. They didn't say 'Cheryl' or 'Samantha.' It was a demonic name."

DiIorio said police had told him not to provide further details, including the sex of the visitors. He did say one "would have been in her early 50s," while the second was younger. "They didn't use the generic term demon. We're using that to guard against evidence being contaminated," DiIorio said. "But they used a name that anyone would associate with demons."

Why, exactly, do the demons' names have to be confidential? What if I know them? I know a couple of demons, and I'm hoping they weren't involved. For instance, I've already cleared my demon friend Samantha.

Oh, yeah, and Archdiocese spokeswoman Donna Farrell said she didn't know of any link between the demonic visitors and the vandalism. Satan sells, I guess.

Ill-spirited acts haunt churches in Bucks [Inquirer]

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February 13, 2008

White House Somehow Screws Up

A program in Bucks County that helps drug addicts is in danger of having its funding cut by President Bush's new proposal. And why is Bucks County Council on Alcohol and Drug Dependence having its funding cut specifically? Phantom manicures.

The Recovery Community Services Program is one of 13 Health and Human Services programs totaling $2.8 billion that would be cut or reduced if the budget plan passes. The program is unworthy of continued federal funding because “services provided, such as manicures and other non-traditional therapies, are not based on evidence-based practices for recovery and grantees have not consistently met all performance measures,” according to a statement from the White House.

Manicures help you stay off drugs? Sweet! Er... oh.

Executive director Beverly Haberle said she can't understand where that information came from; not only are things like manicures not part of the council's programming, she said, such an expenditure would never have gotten though the oversight process. “No one can back up that claim,” she said. "That would not have been an allowable expense in the first place.”

Turns out a few people were given services (say, a manicure and haircut before a job interview) donated by local businesses and other private funds. This is the first time the White House has gotten anything incorrect during Bush's stellar years in office.

Cuts would hurt Bucks program [The Intelligencer]

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February 12, 2008

Get Rich Quick Via Jesus Scheme Fails

Sometimes when sophomoric news/media sites like mine get bored, I'll do a post that's essentially "this thing looks like this thing." Ha ha, funny. But when certain types of people who are big into Jesus get bored sometimes, they play a game that's called "this thing looks like Jesus."

In Bensalem, a furniture maker found an image of Jesus in a fig tree (at right). It also looks like a ghoul, a character in a Tim Burton animated film and, most definitely, that one prisoner at Abu Ghraib.

Oh, it actually looks a lot like that! Maybe Robert Gates ordered some soldiers to go back in time and mess with Jesus. That seems kind of unlikely, though. Maybe God is letting us know that torture is bad? That seems unlikely, too; this is America, after all. This is the country Jesus founded himself!

Craig O'Connor says it definitely looks like Jesus, claiming "an adrenaline rush" when he saw it. But since he forgot to go to the media before trying to sell his Jesus wood on eBay, it only got a top bid of $500. The Virgin Mary in the grilled cheese sandwich got a lot more moolah. Oh, I see: Jesus appears in things so we can get rich! I believe Jesus was big into getting rich, like that time when he said to throw away all your possessions.

Man finds image of biblical proportions [Bucks County Courier Times]

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February 11, 2008

Men Protest Naked Women

Last Ash Wednesday, Milford Township in Bucks County held a meeting about a proposed strip club in the township. The go-go bar actually just went and opened on Dec. 14 of last year, claiming Milford's zoning is unconstitutional and neener neener you can't do anything about it.

Anyway, over 100 people packed the meeting and the owner of Coyotes strip club was escorted in by a security detail. There were also a group of anti-porn male activists in attendance; the group is called King's Men, brought signs decrying porn (for some reason) and are probably the coolest people on the face of the planet, since they're men in an anti-porn activism group.

The strip club is BYOB and its bartenders "have formal training in detecting intoxicated patrons," The Intelligencer reports. Also, apparently the Republican state rep for the area is all against naked ladies, too:

Republican state Rep. Paul Clymer, whose 145th District includes Milford, said the club could cause a ripple effect of crime in the area. "They're going to fill customers up with pornography, sex and alcohol. How are they going to keep them from going out and becoming destructive in the community?" asked Clymer.

The article doesn't say whether Clymer offered any studies or reports of the effect of a strip club on an area, but of course the people protesting don't really care if there are studies saying strip clubs inflate property values 300 percent. And neither do I!

Oh, and a ton of people were heckling the strip club owner while wearing their ashes from services earlier that day. Remember, O man, that you are dust, and unto dust you shall return.

Hearing on Coyotes strip club attracts throng [The Intelligencer via Philly EDGE]
Photo via David Garrett, The Intelligencer

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February 01, 2008

Teaching Fourth Grade Does Really Suck

Authorities in Bucks County charged elementary school teacher Susan Romanyszyn with 17 counts of making terroristic threats. The 45-year-old allegedly put up multiple signs around the school threatening violence.

Oh, and the reason for her anonymous threats? She was assigned to teach fourth grade instead of fifth. I can sort of understand that; in fifth you get to do the first "wear deodorant" talk. Plus you have to teach less because DARE is in your classroom once a week. I mean, who doesn't like watching a police officer show you cocaine?

The letters were also done in childish handwriting.

“Your so stuped I have to kill you,” read one message on a folded-up piece of notebook paper that was found by a lunch monitor. “I won't stop til you all die,” read another that was found by a teacher in the school gym.

Bucks County DA Michelle Henry -- could this be the famed "hot Bucks County prosecutor" immortalized in a Craigslist posting? -- says she also planted a fake explosive device in a kid's desk. Hey, it's a teacher who's finally not sleeping with a student.

Teacher Accused Of Terrorizing Her School Out On Bond [NBC 10]
Teacher accused of making threats [BCCT]

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December 03, 2007

Deer Hunters, Protesters Inspire Easy Lead Joke

Leads like this are great because they work with any story:

What do deer hunters and protesters have in common?

Both will rise bright and early Thursday for the deer hunt at Tyler State Park.

I know, I get it; but it could just as easily be adapted to "What do the Eagles and Giants have in common? They're meeting at the Linc next weekend."

Protesters ready to greet hunters [Courier Times]

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November 21, 2007

Futuristic Croydon Shown; Residents Shrug, Boo

Somebody got a $100,000 grant to study ways to improve Croydon. Here's what they came up with:

[E]ngineers have proposed an “admittedly ambitious” plan for office parks, outdoor theaters, a 17-acre environmental center and a multi-story transit center that rivals Grand Central station in New York.

Sketches for “the new Croydon” showed eight marinas, a skatepark and hundreds of acres of existing homes cleared for open space. Taller buildings, some of them more than eight stories, would be topped with gardens and solar cells to power the entire community.

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November 08, 2007

Alleged Prostitutes Arrested, Embarrassed

First police in Middletown, Bucks County, arrested two alleged prostitutes and their alleged madam who had been business-savvy enough to set up a limited-liability corporation.

Then Internet gossip about the LLC's high prices was reported in the newspaper.

Two suspected prostitutes and their alleged madam — criticized in Internet reviews of their “services” — were arrested during a raid of their business, Natural Therapy LLC, Wednesday in Middletown. [...] The tipster told investigators that a number of Eastern European women who dressed provocatively had a clientele of mostly men who came and went throughout the day and night. Police found several reviews of the business and its employees on Internet forums, spahunters.com and bestgfe.com — gfe is an acronym referring to “girlfriend experience,” according to a list of sex terms on the site.

For a $50 tip, the women would perform a sex act on the clients; for $100 the women would do it naked, according to police.

That's a rip-off, according to some posters on spahunters and bestgfe. Clients can receive a lot more for $160 at an Asian massage parlor, several posters said.

Well, that's the realities of capitalism for you. If you don't compete in pricing, you can't survive.

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