News from The Smoking Gun

[email protected] Fri, 21 Mar 2003 11:19:56 -0500
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Dear Friends:


A truck for 17 cents. A $9310 copier for a nickel. A $4 million drill rig for just $50,000. Who's responsible for these insane sales prices? Hint: It's the same outfit that once paid $640 for a toilet seat cover. Details at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/nevadaaudit1.html


Moments after former NBA star Jayson Williams accidentally shot a man in his New Jersey mansion, the coverup attempt began, with the athlete's brother telling a 911 operator that the victim was drunk and had shot himself with a 12-gauge Browning shotgun. The frantic police call is at:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/williamscall1.html


Charles Moose, the Maryland police chief who headed the Beltway Sniper investigation, will not be allowed to personally profit from his department's slipshod probe. He'll now have to seek his fortune elsewhere:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/mooseethics1.html


We're not sure what they were thinking, but a Florida couple was just nabbed for stealing a crustacean from a tank at Red Lobster:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/redlob1.html


Traveling in the Detroit area and need a place to stay? Well, we'd suggest you steer clear of rooms 238 and 240 at the Marriott in suburban Romulus:

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/romhotel1.html


Regards,

Your pals at TSG


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