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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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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January 08, 2008

Man Allegedly Likes Razors, Cars

A man in Quakertown accused of stealing exactly $1,076 in razorblades and OTC painkillers last month was let out on bail -- and promptly stole a car from a gas station moments after being released, authorities say.

Donald C. Strohm Jr. was free on unsecured bail and at press time he hadn't been caught yet, says the Courier-Times. The article helpfully notes, "Violating any conditions of his release -- which would include stealing a car -- would compel Strohm to pay bail or face incarceration."

Police: Suspect gets bail, steals car [Bucks County Courier Times]

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