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« Reply #30 on: Oct 12th, 2011, 11:08pm » |
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Family lost in Mass. corn maze calls 911 for help
DANVERS, Mass., Wed Oct 12, 06:22 PM
Authorities in Massachusetts say a family that got lost in a seven-acre corn maze called 911 for help, apparently taking advantage of the police department's motto that says "We Want To Be Bothered."
The maze at Connors Farm in Danvers has pathways totaling seven-miles long and can take up to an hour to navigate.
A police officer and his dog entered the maze with a farm manager on Columbus Day to search for the disoriented father, mother and two children, including a three-weeks-old infant. The family didn't realize they had almost made their way out and were just 25 feet from the street.
It took the search party about 10 minutes to find the family. They were helped by a police dispatcher who stayed on the phone with the caller and asked the couple to yell for help to enable those looking for them to identify their location.
"Never again!" the woman is heard telling the dispatcher on police tapes. "We thought this would be fun, instead it's a nightmare."
The family called police for help after sunset, shortly after the farm's closing time.
"Hi I just called, I'm still stuck at Connor's Farms, I don't see anybody I'm really scared, it's really dark and we've got a three-week-old baby with us," the woman is heard on police tapes telling the dispatcher.
Farm Manager Rich Potter said farm workers had not even checked to see if visitors were still making their way through the maze.
Potter said he only became aware that the family was lost in the maze when a police cruiser pulled up and an officer told him that some people had called for help.
It was not clear how long the family had been wandering through the long corn stalks before they called police, farm owner Bob Connors said.
"We were out in the parking lot and we didn't hear them, so they couldn't have been there too long - I think they got frustrated and called (police) on their own," Connors said. "They could see the street lights, they could hear the cars, they couldn't find their way out."
"We don't want to see anybody get lost and panic and call 911," Connors said. "We constructed the maze for people to get lost and have fun, and 99.9 percent of people do have fun getting lost - but it's unfortunate that this party did get lost, it's got to be a positive family experience, that's our goal."
The maze has several guide posts with clues and posters instructing visitors to send text messages to receive additional guidance to help them make their way out.
"There is no way anybody should be stuck on that maze for any reason," Connors said.
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« Reply #31 on: Oct 16th, 2011, 1:15am » |
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Remember this story?
A 50-foot-long bridge in western Pennsylvania has been stolen, and its owners say they're baffled by the crime and have no idea who took it.
New Castle Development spokesman Gary Bruce said Friday that he "couldn't believe it when they told me it was gone."
A state police report says the 20-foot-wide span in North Beaver Township went missing between Sept. 27 and Wednesday.
The bridge was made out of corrugated steel and valued at about $100,000. Thieves used a blowtorch to cut it apart, presumably to sell it for scrap metal.
The bridge was used occasionally as a back entrance to the company property. It's in the woods along a railroad line about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.
Bruce says he doubts the company can replace the bridge.
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Brothers charged with stealing western Pa. bridge
NEW CASTLE, Pa., Sat Oct 15, 03:51 PM
Two brothers have been charged with stealing a western Pennsylvania bridge and selling the 15 1/2 tons of scrap metal for more than $5,000.
Police say 24-year-old Benjamin Arthur Jones and 25-year-old Alexander Williams Jones of New Castle used a blowtorch to break up the bridge in late September or early October. They face felony charges of criminal mischief, theft, receiving stolen property and conspiracy.
Authorities say Alexander Jones told a recycling company employee that he had permission to carve the bridge for scrap and showed the employee cellphone photos of the bridge. The recycling company called police.
The 50-foot-long by 20-foot-wide Covert's Crossing Bridge was in a wooded area about 60 miles north of Pittsburgh.
The brothers' phone numbers weren't listed, and it's unclear whether they have attorneys.
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« Reply #32 on: Oct 24th, 2011, 10:35pm » |
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Maine man's car goes 1 million miles
SACO, Maine, Mon Oct 24, 03:40 PM
A Maine man and his car are celebrating a million-mile milestone.
Joe LoCicero was given a 2012 Honda Accord at a parade in the city of Saco on Sunday after surpassing the million-mile mark on the odometer of his 1990 Accord. He reached the milestone last Thursday.
A Honda spokeswoman tells The Portland Press Herald (http://bit.ly/otOqd1) it's the first time the manufacturer has documented an Accord reaching one million miles.
LoCicero says he bought the car in 1996 with 74,000 miles. The former mechanic did much of his own work. The secret he says is following maintenance schedules, using quality parts and driving safely.
He swears the transmission and engine are original.
Now that he has a new Accord, he's not sure what he'll do with the old one.
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« Reply #33 on: Oct 30th, 2011, 12:51am » |
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NYC museum limits visitors in bathtub-like artwork
NEW YORK, Sat Oct 29, 08:32 PM
Naked art lovers are no longer able to take dips together in a bathtub-like installation at a New York City museum after warnings from health officials.
The "Psycho Tank"(Riadas Retort: "PSYCHO" being the operative word) is part of an interactive exhibit "Experience" by German artist Carsten Holler (HOO'-lehr). The pool sits off the ground in a tent-like structure. Visitors are handed bathrobes, slippers and towels before heading into the salty, warm water - nude.
The New York Post ( http://nyp.st/tBrHNo) reports health officials said allowing more than one person would have required a permit the museum didn't have.
(Riadas Retort: I didnt know THOSE kind of places had permits!)
The museum is now allowing only one person in at a time.
Officials are also investigating whether other parts of the exhibit, which include a giant slide and a carousel, meet city regulations.
(Riadas Retort: theres a slide and a carousel...?)
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« Reply #34 on: Nov 5th, 2011, 12:34am » |
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Bank Robbers Not Ready for Prime Time:
Thomas Love, 40, was arrested in New Castle County, Del., in October after he had walked out of a WSFS Bank empty-handed. According to police, Love had presented a demand note to a teller, who couldn't make out the writing and handed it back, provoking Love to flee.
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Henry Elmer, 56, was arrested in Yuma, Ariz., in October where he had just sat down to enjoy a beer at the Village Inn Pizza Parlor. Police identified Elmer as the man who just moments earlier had robbed the Wells Fargo bank in the same block and "fled" the few steps to the Village Inn (which is also just across the street from the Yuma Police Station).
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Recurring Themes
Soon, it might be absolutely impossible to get hurt in Britain -- because of stringent health and safety rules. St. Mary's Church in Cottingham announced it would go without an overhead light because government rules require that it rig scaffolding to change the light bulb in its 30-foot-high ceiling. (Using a ladder would be unsafe.)
And following the August riots in London, hundreds of volunteers took to the streets to speed the cleanup process, but at several junctures, police turned them away, fearful that the civic-minded workers lacked the sense to avoid cutting themselves on the broken glass and debris.
Riadas Retort: Are these people for real? OMG!
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« Reply #35 on: Nov 6th, 2011, 11:22pm » |
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Woman kills, guts horse — then strips and climbs in for photos
A Portland woman who bought a horse, killed it, gutted it and posed naked for photos inside the carcass broke no laws, Oregon authorities decided.
..And she says she can't understand people's interest in her. "No idea why people care," Jasha Lottin, 21, told Seattle Weekly, which published photos that she had posted on the Internet.
Lottin and her boyfriend had taken over care of the 32-year-old horse, which they said was in declining health, KOIN-TV reported. They told Washington County sheriff's deputies that they shot it near Portland with a rifle and gutted it, then Lottin stripped and climbed inside. She also posed outside of it, covered in its blood, and with parts of the horse's organs.
She posted the photos on the Internet, and a man in North Carolina who came across them reported them to deputies, the Weekly reported.
Lottin reportedly told investigators that they wanted to humanely kill the horse and eat it — and she wanted to feel what it would be like to be inside the dead horse.
Investigators decided the couple had violated no laws. But Lottin's mother said her daughter has received death threats, KOIN reported.
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« Reply #36 on: Nov 8th, 2011, 11:37pm » |
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Police: Russian man kept 29 mummified bodies
MOSCOW, Mon Nov 07, 01:04 PM
In this photo, NOT taken by me obviously, is one of the mummies in this guys apartment. I guess by the looks of things, we can add HOARDING to the list of his idiosyncrasies...
The Russian historian had always been open about his interest in the dead and eagerly described how he loved to rummage through cemeteries, studying grave stones to uncover the life stories behind them.
What he failed to mention, according to police, was that he had dug up 29 bodies and taken them back to his apartment, where he dressed them in women's clothes scavenged from graves and then put them on display.
A police video of the man's apartment in the Volga River city of Nizhny Novgorod released Monday shows his macabre collection of what look like dolls. Lifesize, they are dressed in bright dresses and headscarves, their hands and faces wrapped in what appears to be cloth. Police said they were mummified remains.
Instructions for doll-making were found in the apartment, police said, and the video showed old-fashioned plastic dolls in frilly dresses lying about.
Police refused to name the suspect arrested last week, but released photographs of him, gave his age as 45 and described him as a well-known specialist in the history of the city about 400 kilometers (250 miles) east of Moscow.
Russian media reports identified the man as Anatoly Moskvin, a 45-year-old historian who was considered the ultimate expert on cemeteries in Nizhny Novgorod.
Russian newspaper reports quoted police as saying that the man had only selected the remains of young women for his grisly collection.
Police said he had photographs and nameplates from grave sites, which could help with the identification of the remains.
The arrest followed a long-running investigation into the desecration of graves at several cemeteries in Nizhny Novgorod beginning in 2010, police spokeswoman Svetlana Kovylina said. She did not explain how they tracked him down.
The national daily Moskovsky Komsomolets said Moskvin was detained at a cemetery while carrying a bag of bones. But Kriminalnaya Khronika, an online publication specializing in crime news from the Nizhny Novgorod region, said police investigators discovered the bodies when they visited Moskvin to consult with him about the desecration.
Alexei Yesin, the editor of a local newspaper to which Moskvin contributed, told The Associated Press that he was shocked by the reports and couldn't understand how he could have squeezed all the bodies into his apartment, which he shared with his parents.
He described Moskvin as a loner who had "certain quirks," but said he gave no indication that he was up to anything so strange. "I saw no signs of that while working with him," Yesin said in a telephone interview.
Moskvin, who long had been known in the region for his interest in the dead, wrote several articles about cemeteries and historic sites in the region. A linguistic expert by training, he specialized in Celtic culture and studied 13 foreign languages.
In a 2007 interview with the newspaper Nizhegorodsky Rabochy, or Nizhny Novgorod Worker, Moskvin said he had begun wandering through cemeteries when he was in the seventh grade. "I don't think anyone in the city knows them better than I do," he said.
Moskvin claimed that from 2005 to 2007 he had inspected 752 cemeteries across the region, often traveling about 30 kilometers (20 miles) a day by foot.
He said he drank from puddles, spent nights in haystacks or at abandoned farms and once even slept in a coffin readied for a funeral. He said he was repeatedly questioned by police, who then always let him go.
Just last month, he wrote a piece for a publication on necrology to explain his interest in the dead. He said that when he was 12, he came across a funeral procession whose participants forced him to kiss the face of a dead 11-year-old girl.
"An adult pushed my face down to the waxy forehead of the girl in an embroidered cap, and there was nothing I could do but kiss her as ordered," Moskvin wrote in Nekrolog.
He said he later grew interested in the occult.
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« Reply #37 on: Nov 10th, 2011, 11:44pm » |
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Leslie Lind Allegedly Robbed Grand Junction Liquor Store In The Nude, Wore Nothing But Socks
Leslie Lind, a 32-year-old Grand Junction man, was wearing nothing but socks when he was arrested under suspicion that he robbed a liquor store in the nude Monday night, according to KJCT.
Lind entered Last Chance Liquors wearing only a pair of socks, grabbed a bottle of liquor and cigarettes and then left without paying, KKCO reports. Police caught up to Lind and found that in fact he did have more than socks on him -- he was also carrying a glass pipe and small bag of marijuana.
According to the arrest affidavit, police first took Lind to the hospital due to his mental state when first confronted. However, when they took the handcuffs off at the hospital, he charged an officer and tried to punch him until he was finally restrained.
7News reports that Lind was subsequently arrested on suspicion of shoplifting, public indecency, assault on an officer and possession of marijuana/paraphernalia and taken to Mesa County Jail.
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« Reply #38 on: Nov 11th, 2011, 11:10pm » |
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If You Think Driving A school Bus Is An Easy Job, Read This...
Marsia Emanuel allegedly bugged out and beat a school bus driver before mooning police officers
If you think your parents are embarrassing, just wait til you hear what this Florida mother allegedly did in front of her daughter.
Winter Haven police arrested Marsia Emanuel on Thursday after she allegedly hailed a school bus and beat the driver in front of her teenage daughter and other students around 6 a.m., The Ledger reports.
The driver, Marilyn Richmond, recognized Emanuel as a student's mom, pulled over and opened the door. For reasons that are unclear, according to The Ledger's dispatch, Emanuel boarded and refused to leave the bus.
Hostilities ensued. Emanuel yelled in what seemed to be a foreign language, according to TV station WTSP. The incomprehensible ranting was followed by Emanuel allegedly battering Richmond on the shoulder and arm.
Emanuel fled and police traced her retreat to her home where there was another outburst of yelling, again from the mouth of the accused misbehaving mom. Police claim Emanuel, 37, dropped her underpants in front of them too, reports said.
Eventually subdued, police charged her with burglary of an occupied vehicle, battery of a public education worker, disturbing the peace and indecent exposure, according to the Polk County Sheriff's Department.
The unruly behavior was apparently contagious that day. The investigative work of Winter Haven's finest was hindered on board the parked school bus by a 15-year-old boy who interfered with cops' efforts to canvass passengers for statements about the strange early morning incident. The student was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct, resisting arrest and disrupting school, according to The Ledger.
The remaining pupils boarded an emergency replacement bus about 90 minutes later and were transported to high school.
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« Reply #39 on: Nov 14th, 2011, 12:13am » |
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Vacant House Targeted by Squatters, Scammers and Thieves
Empty houses -- those either awaiting foreclosure or where the owners have moved out for other reasons -- might as well have a "kick me" sign on them. Actually, make that "vandalize me" sign. They are frequently the targets of squatters who move in illegally, scammers who claim they own them and rent them out to unsuspecting tenants, or just plain old garden variety thieves who break in and steal the valuables right down to the copper plumbing and refrigerator.
Or, in the case of one Suffolk County house, all three. According to a story on ABCLocal News, the Bay Shore home of Richard and Lisa Scott slipped into foreclosure in 2009. The Scotts said they gave their lender, Bank of America, three short sale offers that went nowhere fast, with the bank citing incomplete paperwork that the Scotts and their agent insist was delivered. The Scotts, meanwhile, moved out to rebuild their lives in the South.
Shortly thereafter, Scott's brother reported driving by and seeing a squatter living in the house, with the air conditioner running and lights blazing. Once the squatter was removed, someone ran a scam ad on Craigslist and leased out the house, collecting $4,000 from the unsuspecting tenant. And then, to add insult to injury, with the squatter and tenant gone, vandals broke into the house and stripped it bare, leaving holes punched in the walls and stealing the copper plumbing, the appliances, even the kitchen sink.
According to the report, BofA is now trying to hasten the foreclosure process.
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« Reply #40 on: Nov 15th, 2011, 11:55pm » |
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Severed bison head discovered in Boulder yard
BOULDER, Colo., Mon Nov 14, 05:43 PM
Police in Boulder, Colo., are investigating how a severed bison head ended up on a decorative rock in someone's front yard.
The Denver Post reports ( http://bit.ly/s69rjR) that police quickly ruled out one obvious potential source for a bison head in Boulder: the beloved buffalo mascot named Ralphie at the University of Colorado.
Boulder police spokeswoman Kim Kobel says a check on Ralphie shortly after the head was discovered Sunday morning showed he is OK.
Neighbors weren't able to provide police with additional information. They didn't know why someone would leave a severed head at the home.
Kobel says the case is being investigated as an animal cruelty case.
Investigators are reaching out to local ranchers and processing plants to find the source of the head.
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Colo. bison head's owner forgot to tell roommates
BOULDER, Colo., Mon Nov 14, 11:07 PM
Police in Boulder, Colo., have solved the mystery of how a severed bison head ended up on a decorative rock in someone's front yard. It belongs to somebody who lives in the home but forgot to tell his roommates about it.
The roommates called police about the head Sunday, and investigators quickly ruled out one obvious potential source: the beloved buffalo mascot named Ralphie at the University of Colorado.
Police spokeswoman Kim Kobel said Monday that the head came from a buffalo recently slaughtered from a ranch in Nebraska. The head's owner told police he was drying out his souvenir so he could display it on a wall.
Kobel says the case is now closed.
Police didn't release the names of the people involved.
Riadas Retort: Lots of "Os'" as in "OMG" and "Oh Brother"
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« Reply #41 on: Nov 19th, 2011, 11:28pm » |
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NY man wearing 'I'm a drunk' shirt accused of DWI
CORAM, N.Y., Thu Nov 17, 03:27 PM
A New York man wearing a T-shirt declaring "I'm a drunk" is facing DWI charges after a collision with a police car. Suffolk County police arrested 22-year-old Kevin Daly of Coram. They say he crashed into an officer's vehicle at about 1:45 a.m. Thursday. The officer was treated for minor injuries.
Daly was wearing the T-shirt in a mug shot provided by police.
He faces arraignment on DWI and was issued several traffic summonses. The name of his attorney was not immediately available.
Riadas Retort: OMG! THAT IS TOO FUNNY!! 
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« Reply #42 on: Dec 4th, 2011, 10:59pm » |
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Report: Thieves target toilet paper at NM diner
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Sun Dec 04, 02:57 PM
A New Mexico restaurant employee says he's now seen it all, after three men left his diner with rolls of toilet paper and were nabbed in the parking lot by police.
Burgers, Dogs and Wings employee Josh Flannery-Stewart tells KOAT-TV ( http://bit.ly/rtVXdL) in Albuquerque that he was immediately suspicious of the men when they came in Saturday because they weren't talking and appeared "messed up."
The three went into the bathroom and emerged carrying about a dozen rolls of toilet paper. They got in a car in the parking lot, but didn't get far.
Albuquerque police apparently already had the trio under surveillance and quickly surrounded the car and arrested them.
The toilet paper was returned to its rightful owner.
Riadas Retort: MUST HAVE BEEN THE CHILI...
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Bell-ringer Allegedly Steals $600 In Donations: Florida Police Arrest Kevin Dinger
Quasimodo would be so ashamed of this bell ringer.
A donation-collecting volunteer jingled al the way to jail Saturday, after police arrested him for allegedly stealing several hundred dollars in coins from Salvation Army donation kettles.
Kevin L. Dinger reportedly told his fellow volunteers that he had instructions to replace the nearly full buckets with fresh ones, according to the Naples Daily News.
"Dinger used his position as an employee of the Salvation Army to steal the donations provided by honest citizens looking to assist a charitable cause," a police report explained. "Dinger knew the system for switching kettles and used it to his advantage to facilitate his criminal enterprise."
Authorities said that Dinger offered a similar explanation to police officers, but no records on his cell phone indicated that the alleged coin bandit actually received such a call from his superiors. The 49-year-old, who also owns and operates a landscaping company and ice cream factory, stole approximately $600, according to the Collier County Sheriff's Office.
Security footage at a Naples Publix supermarket confirmed Dinger's identity, WZVN reports.
Dinger, who is charged with grand theft and fraud, won't be dinging any bells for the Salvation Army any time soon.
Riadas Retort: I CANT IMPROVE ON WHAT THEY ALREADY SAID IN THAT CLOSING STATEMENT!
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« Reply #44 on: Dec 9th, 2011, 10:58pm » |
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Police: Pa. man fakes mom's obit to get time off
BROOKVILLE, Pa., Fri Dec 09, 07:21 PM
Authorities in northwestern Pennsylvania say a man published an obituary for his living mother in a ploy to get paid bereavement time off from work.
Relatives called The Jeffersonian Democrat newspaper in Brookville after the obit appeared to report the woman was actually alive and well. The woman herself then visited the paper.
Brookville police charged 45-year-old Scott Bennett on Tuesday with disorderly conduct.
Democrat editor Randy Bartley says he accepted the obituary in good faith after being unable to confirm the funeral arrangements at press time. He told The Derrick newspaper (http://bit.ly/vDDqLi) on Friday that the woman was very understanding.
Police Chief Ken Dworek says Bennett wrote up the memorial notice because he didn't want to get fired for taking time off.
The Associated Press couldn't reach Bennett.
Riadas Retort: SHAMELESS! 
Pa. ad executive sends holiday cards from grave
PITTSBURGH, Fri Dec 09, 01:58 PM
The holiday cards from ad man Bob McCully were truly a special delivery - from beyond the grave.
About 400 people recently received the macabre but humorous greetings from McCully, who died in August at 88, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday (http://bit.ly/vXDR6s).
The former Pittsburgh advertising executive is pictured on the front of the card talking on the phone in an office.
"Hello, please don't call," it reads. "I recently moved to a quiet neighborhood ..."
Inside, the card says: "My new place doesn't have a phone and our gates close after dark." Pictures show the gates at Allegheny Cemetery in Lawrenceville and McCully's tombstone.
Friends say a relative produced the card, which generated a mix of emotions for longtime McCully friend David Newell.
"It was the strangest feeling getting that card. It was almost eerie. But when I opened it, I laughed out loud. It was the ultimate Christmas card," Newell said.
McCully often performed locally in satirical musical revues and was known for his darkly funny Christmas greetings. For several years, Newell said, cards were written from the perspective of McCully's former dog, Rolf.
This year's card might be the most memorable of all.
"I was delighted to no end. It was a great source of joy for me," said Ed Blank, former Pittsburgh Press and Pittsburgh Tribune-Review film critic. "It was like nothing I've ever received."
Riadas Retort: IF I WERE ED BLANK, I WOULD HAVE ADDED: "...AND I HOPE I NEVER RECEIVE SOMETHING LIKE THIS AGAIN!"
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