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Extra, Extra: Police Hunt For Feces-Squeezing Bandits
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Security camera stills, released by Toronto Police, of four suspects in the poo-facilitated thefts.
- There are few things worse than squirting feces onto someone, but squirting feces onto someone and then robbing them would definitely be one of them. Police are looking for suspects in four recent downtown thefts [PDF], in which (and we quote from the Police press release) “the victims made cash withdrawals from ATMs or financial institutions, [and] they were squirted with feces” by the suspects, who “would clean the victim’s clothing and, in the process, steal their cash.” Those suspects, the release notes, “could be in possession of squeeze bottles or containers of feces.” Frankly, it’s probably a good idea to be on the lookout for people with squeeze bottles or containers of feces, regardless of criminal intent.
- Speaking of messes, the G20 is inching closer, with restrictions and graffiti aplenty.
- “There is no poll that puts Rob Ford in first place” in the mayoral election, Jonathan Goldsbie writes on Spacing‘s Wire, thank God. Goldsbie suggests that the whispers that there was might have been “deliberately planted to test the laziness of the City Hall press corps.” He who smelt it, dealt it.
- And meanwhile, on Twitter, Adam Giambrone dropped a mostly unnoticed hint that another TTC fare increase could be on the way.
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