I love my hometown

[oakenguy]

From this week's Advertiser-Democrat, lovingly sent by my parents so I can keep up with what's going on back in Maine, I got a front page article about a drug bust (and by "drug bust" I mean two people observed selling Percocets to a guy on a bicycle in the middle of Market Square) that contains this priceless paragraph:

Boutilier is on probation from a 2008 conviction for trying to hold up the Rite Aid pharmacy in South Paris. His efforts to flee at that time were thwarted by his aged getaway car which refused to start, resulting in an impromptu game of hide-and-seek around the state office building.

Stay classy, South Paris underworld. Stay classy.

Comments

[sheapottery.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they don't have problems like this in NORTH Paris.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Whoa, are you seriously from South Paris? I wonder if you knew my friend Trina from college...

[clionona.livejournal.com]

...game of hide-and-seek...
*giggles*
Man, I am such a child! :P

[heavenscalyx.livejournal.com]

I heart the editor who let this story go in.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

Hm, I used to get the A-D when I lived in Sandy Eggo. Maybe I should resubscribe.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

You kidding? He's probably related. There are, like three families in SP.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, you silly. I'm related to everyone in WATERFORD. (Well, and half of Harrison, too. And Stoneham, and ooo, can't forget about Albany...)

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

You would do so well as a criminal overlord up here!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. From the editor who brought us the front page story "Skunk Gets Head Stuck in Can, Eventually Escapes", complete with photo of the (empty) can!

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

I warn you now, no matter how bad you think the letters page is, it's worse.

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

True. And West Paris is too busy dealing with their gem mines and the centuries-old Curse of Princess Mollyockett (I Am Not Making This Up).

[oakenguy.livejournal.com]

Dark hair, kind of short?


(Wait, that describes 99% of the people I grew up with...)

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Trina Piirainen. Blonde. Ring a bell? She died in a car crash about 10 years ago. That's not a great pic, though.

[scixual.livejournal.com]

heh heh, oh, yeah, I remember.

[elkster.livejournal.com]

"Inpromtu ...hide and seek" is indeed classic!