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Re: Obese naked American tourist terrorized a peaceful Swiss town

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From: Michael Baldwin, Bruce
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 03:32
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Peter Hucker wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Sep 2007 14:28:39 +0100, Michael Baldwin, Bruce <mbb@mighty.co.za> wrote:
>
> > Ted wrote:
> >> On Sep 12, 10:46 am, Rere <rair...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >> > An American tourist who ran naked through a peaceful Swiss town,
> >> > vandalized a church and escaped from police clutches by jumping into a
> >> > lake could have been on hallucinogenic mushrooms, a local magistrate
> >> > said.
> >> >
> >> > The 34 year-old from Massachusetts, who has since been allowed to
> >> > return home, ran amok in the western town of Morges, by Lake Geneva,
> >> > two weeks ago,
> >> >
> >> > He started babbling incoherently in the hotel lobby, stripped and ran
> >> > naked along the quayside, broke a stained glass window in the nearby
> >> > protestant temple with a stool and set a precious 1898 bible alight,
> >> > police in Morges said.
> >> >
> >> > After being seized and handcuffed by police, he made a leap for
> >> > freedom into the lake and bit two people who tried to help him while
> >> > he was hanging on to a boat.
> >> >
> >> > Having recovered his senses, he later appeared before investigating
> >> > magistrate Gilles Riva and "coherently" explained that he had eaten
> >> > 'magic mushrooms' that he had bought in the Netherlands during a trip
> >> > through Europe.
> >> >
> >> > "He said he had lots of regrets and said sorry at least fifty times,"
> >> > Riva told the Swiss news agency ATS. Riva said the mushroom theory was
> >> > "possible".
> >> >
> >> > The tourist, who also offered 250 dollars for each of the people he
> >> > bit, was not named.
> >> >
> >> > http://tinyurl.com/27lbrq
> >>
> >> Major crime here was being a fat bastard. It appears that most folks
> >> from America have round faces.
> >
> > Jumped in a lake, eh? I bet he had a wetback too.
>
> What exactly was the crime?  Being naked doesn't hurt anyone, and who needs churches anyway?

Why ask me, PHucker? I wasn't there now, was I?
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Subject: Re: Obese naked American tourist terrorized a peaceful Swiss town
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