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Salt Lake City Costco Removes Tomatoes Ahead Of Palin Event
Jillian Rayfield | December 16, 2009, 10:00AM
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A Costco in Salt Lake City, Utah reportedly removed all of its tomatoes ahead of a Sarah Palin book tour event, after a man was arrested for attempting to hit Palin with a tomato at an earlier event in Minnesota.
According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Costco management was "determined" to avoid another tomato-throwing incident, and resorted to removing all of the tomatoes from the store.
This extreme measure followed a December 7 incident in which a man tried to hit Palin with a tomato at a Mall Of America event, but missed and hit a police officer instead.
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dustbunny44
December 16, 2009 11:32 AM
Geez, that's good.
And is there some law against carrying more than 3 oz. of tomato juice in a container?
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irish
December 16, 2009 11:35 AM
A San Francisco hippie was once arrested for having an open container of tomatoes near the Mayor (Alioto).
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CranialRectalLoopback
December 16, 2009 11:49 AM
Seeing as how Fail'n Palin is no smarter than monkey, I say we throw feces rather than tomatoes.
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1audiofile
December 16, 2009 11:51 AM
BYOT
Bring your own tomotos.
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Kenny Loggins
December 16, 2009 11:53 AM
Throw an apple.
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Frinky
December 16, 2009 12:13 PM
I assume as with the Presidents' public appearances, everyone could bring a loaded gun.
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Moloko+
December 16, 2009 12:15 PM
So in Salt Lake City - you can buy a gun but you can't buy a tomato?
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inniss326
December 16, 2009 12:58 PM
No tomatos...they better lock up those cartons of 2 dozen eggs.
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Sailormarlowe
December 16, 2009 1:01 PM
Anything to get Sarah Palin's name on a post. Didn't she finish up her book tour last weekend, at home in Alaska? But don't panic. She will be b-a-a-a-a-ck soon in the lower 48, campaigning to unseat some wobbly Democrats.
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davcbr
December 16, 2009 1:14 PM
What about the eggs?
She sure would look fetching with egg on her face.
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jjdjjd
December 16, 2009 1:41 PM
if you paid no attention to palin she would just fade away. now, thanks to the far far far left, she is a multi- millionaire. who is the stupid one?
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CranialRectalLoopback
December 16, 2009 2:09 PM in reply to jjdjjd
Would that be the far, far, far left Corporate Media?
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jjdjjd
December 16, 2009 4:33 PM in reply to CranialRectalLoopback
no, it would be you.
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greenplasticmike
December 16, 2009 2:56 PM
If they take away the tomatoes, then only criminals will have tomatoes.
Isn't this how the argument about gun control works? Is it any less applicable to "tomato control?"
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Frinky
December 16, 2009 3:05 PM
Hmmm. "You can take my tomato from my cold, dead hand" doesn't have the same ring to it as the other famous line.
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ejg3
December 16, 2009 3:38 PM
Has anybody determined that water won't melt her?
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Frinky
December 16, 2009 4:12 PM in reply to ejg3
That was great!!! Thank you!
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miles born
December 16, 2009 5:12 PM
Throw TruckNutz®!
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Publishermike
December 16, 2009 6:49 PM
Sarah once threw a tomato at Russia from her front door one time. It knocked down the Berlin Wall. Perhaps Costco doesn't want to have her upstaged.
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Tosh
April 2, 2010 12:28 PM
haha i can't believe they did that
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