Counterforce alert

[Bruce Appelbaum]

At the deli counter, huh?  Gives new meaning to the phrase "who cut the
cheese?"


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Regards

Bruce Appelbaum
Yorktown Heights, New York


----- Original Message -----
From: "Doug Millison" <DMillison at ftmg.net>
To: "Pynchon-L (E-mail)" <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2001 2:45 PM
Subject: Counterforce alert


>
>
>
> Two men have been arrested after allegedly clearing a New Jersey
supermarket
> armed with a can of fart spray.
>
> Geremino T Ranallo, 64, and Warren G Jacoby, 49, are accused of walking
into
> ShopRite and spraying the noxious gas while around 50 people were inside
the
> building.
>
> Police have charged the two men, of Oxford Township, Warren County, with
> causing or risking widespread injury or damage and assault.
>
> Assistant store manager Rick Calabrese called the police to report the
> flatulence-like smell. Two suspects were arrested after they were spotted
at
> the deli counter.
>
> Mr Calabrese told The Express-Times: "I guess they wanted to have the
place
> to themselves."
>
> He claimed they had previously been spotted by staff carrying a fart
machine
> which mimicked the sound of flatulence.
>
>
> See this story on the web at
> http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_310205.html
>
>
>