tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26658566290917640652024-02-09T10:10:55.586-08:00Stacy`s SoapboxStacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.comBlogger1428125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-58846521219048103562024-02-09T10:10:00.000-08:002024-02-09T10:10:19.954-08:00Soupy Sales<p> <b style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Milton Supman</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(January 8, 1926 – October 22, 2009), known professionally as</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><b style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Soupy Sales</b><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, was an American comedian, actor, radio-television personality, and jazz aficionado.</span><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTjazz_2-0" style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTjazz-2" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">He was best known for his local and network</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Children%27s_television_series" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Children's television series">children's television series</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">,</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">Lunch with Soupy Sales</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">(later titled</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The Soupy Sales Show</i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">) (1953–1966), a series of comedy sketches frequently ending with Sales receiving</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieing" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pieing">a pie in the face</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">, which became his trademark. From 1968 to 1975, he was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><i style="color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="What's My Line?">What's My Line?</a></i><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">and appeared on several other TV game shows. During the 1980s, he hosted his own show on</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC_(AM)" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: none; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; color: #3366cc; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WNBC (AM)">WNBC</a><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">in New York City.</span></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Early_life">Early life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Milton Supman was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franklinton,_North_Carolina" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Franklinton, North Carolina">Franklinton, North Carolina</a>, to Irving Supman and Sadie Berman Supman. His father, a Jewish <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dry_goods" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Dry goods">dry goods</a> merchant, emigrated from <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hungary" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hungary">Hungary</a> in 1894. His was the only <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish">Jewish</a> family in town; Sales joked that local <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> members bought the sheets used for their robes from his father's store.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-3" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales got his nickname from his family. His older brothers had been nicknamed "Ham Bone" and "Chicken Bone". Milton was dubbed "Soup Bone", which was later shortened to "Soupy". When he became a disc jockey, he began using the stage name Soupy Hines. After he became established, it was decided that "Hines" was too close to the Heinz soup company, so he chose Sales, in part after <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaudeville" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Vaudeville">vaudeville</a> comedian <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chic_Sale" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Chic Sale">Chic Sale</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTOBIT-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> He graduated from Huntington High School in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huntington,_West_Virginia" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Huntington, West Virginia">Huntington, West Virginia</a>, in 1944. He enlisted in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Navy" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> and served on the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Randall_(APA-224)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="USS Randall (APA-224)">USS <i>Randall</i> <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">(APA-224)</span></a> in the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_theater_of_World_War_II" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pacific Ocean theater of World War II">South Pacific</a> during the latter part of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_II" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="World War II">World War II</a>. He sometimes entertained his shipmates by telling jokes and playing crazy characters over the ship's public address system. One of the characters he created was "White Fang", a large dog that played outrageous practical jokes on the seamen. The sounds for "White Fang" came from a recording of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hound_of_the_Baskervilles" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Hound of the Baskervilles">The Hound of the Baskervilles</a></i>.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales enrolled at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshall_University" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Marshall University">Marshall University</a>, known as Marshall College at that time, where he earned a master's degree in journalism. While there, he performed in nightclubs as a comedian, singer and dancer.</p><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Career">Career</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=2" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Career">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">After graduating from Marshall, Sales began working as a scriptwriter and <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DJ" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="DJ">disc jockey</a> at radio station <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WHTN" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WHTN">WHTN</a> (now <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WVHU" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WVHU">WVHU</a>) in Huntington. He moved to <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cincinnati,_Ohio" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cincinnati, Ohio">Cincinnati, Ohio</a> in 1949, where he was a morning radio DJ and performed in nightclubs. He began his television career on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WKRC-TV" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WKRC-TV">WKRC-TV</a> in Cincinnati with <i>Soupy's Soda Shop</i>, TV's first teen dance program, and <i>Club Nothing!</i>, a late-night comedy/variety program.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-4" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[4]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Lunch_with_Soupy_Sales"><i>Lunch with Soupy Sales</i></span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=3" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Lunch with Soupy Sales">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales is best known for his daily children's television show, <i>Lunch with Soupy Sales</i>. It was originally called <i>12 O'Clock Comics</i>, and later known as <i>The Soupy Sales Show</i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-Daytime_5-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-Daytime-5" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[5]</a></sup> Improvised and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapstick" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Slapstick">slapstick</a> in nature, it was a rapid-fire stream of comedy sketches, gags and puns, almost all of which resulted in Sales receiving a pie in the face, which became his trademark. He developed pie-throwing into an art form: straight to the face, on top of the head, a pie to both ears from behind, moving into a stationary pie, and countless other variations. He claimed that he and his visitors had been hit by more than 20,000 pies during his career.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTOBIT-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> He recounted a time when a young fan mistakenly threw a frozen pie at his neck and he "dropped like a pile of bricks".<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-3" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTOBIT-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="History">History</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=4" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: History">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h4><h5 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Detroit">Detroit</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=5" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Detroit">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h5><figure class="mw-halign-left" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; clear: left; color: #202122; display: table; float: left; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; margin: 0.5em 1.4em 1.3em 0px; min-width: 100px; text-align: center;" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a class="mw-file-description" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soupy_puppet.jpg" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="1696" data-file-width="1328" decoding="async" height="255" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Soupy_puppet.jpg/200px-Soupy_puppet.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Soupy_puppet.jpg/300px-Soupy_puppet.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Soupy_puppet.jpg/400px-Soupy_puppet.jpg 2x" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); margin: 3px; vertical-align: middle;" width="200" /></a><figcaption style="border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 12.376px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 6px 6px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;">A <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hand_puppet" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hand puppet">hand puppet</a> featuring a likeness of Sales</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><i>Lunch with Soupy Sales</i> began in 1953 from the studios of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WXYZ-TV" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WXYZ-TV">WXYZ-TV</a>, Channel 7, in the historic <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maccabees_Building" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Maccabees Building">Maccabees Building</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Detroit">Detroit</a>. Sales occasionally took the studio cameras to the lawn of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detroit_Public_Library" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Detroit Public Library">Detroit Public Library</a>, across the street from the studios, and talked with local students walking to and from school. Beginning no later than July 4, 1955, a Saturday version of Sales' lunch show was broadcast nationally on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Broadcasting_Company" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="American Broadcasting Company">ABC</a> television network.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NY_Times_TV_review_6-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NY_Times_TV_review-6" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[6]</a></sup> His lunchtime program on weekdays was moved to early morning opposite <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Today_(American_TV_program)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Today (American TV program)">Today</a></i> and <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Kangaroo" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Captain Kangaroo">Captain Kangaroo</a></i>.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">During the same period that <i>Lunch with Soupy Sales</i> aired in Detroit, Sales also hosted a nighttime show, <i>Soupy's On</i>, to compete with <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/11_O%27Clock_News" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="11 O'Clock News">11 O'Clock News</a> programs.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cadence_7-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-cadence-7" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup> The guest star was always a musician, often a <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jazz">jazz</a> performer, at a time when jazz was popular in Detroit and the city was home to 24 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jazz_club" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jazz club">jazz clubs</a>. Sales believed his show helped sustain jazz in Detroit, as artists regularly sold out their nightclub shows after appearing on it.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cadence_7-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-cadence-7" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coleman_Hawkins" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Coleman Hawkins">Coleman Hawkins</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Armstrong" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Louis Armstrong">Louis Armstrong</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Ellington" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Duke Ellington">Duke Ellington</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billie_Holiday" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Billie Holiday">Billie Holiday</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlie_Parker" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Charlie Parker">Charlie Parker</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stan_Getz" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Stan Getz">Stan Getz</a> were among the musicians who appeared on the show; <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miles_Davis" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Miles Davis">Miles Davis</a> made six appearances.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTjazz_2-1" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTjazz-2" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[2]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clifford_Brown" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Clifford Brown">Clifford Brown</a>'s appearance on <i>Soupy's On</i>, according to Sales, may be the only extant <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Footage" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Footage">footage</a> of Brown, and has been included in <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Burns%27_Jazz" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Ken Burns' Jazz">Ken Burns' Jazz</a></i> and an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%26E_Network" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="A&E Network">A&E Network</a> biography about Sales.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-cadence_7-2" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-cadence-7" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[7]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales briefly had a third dinnertime show filmed largely in Detroit's Palmer Park area. His three shows were rumored to earn him in excess of $100,000 per year. One of his character puppets was Willy the Worm, a "balloon" propelled worm that emerged from its house and used a high pitched voice to announce birthdays or special events on the noontime show; but the character never appeared when Soupy moved to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. In his lunchtime show, Sales always wore an <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlon" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Orlon">orlon</a> fabric sweater. In many of his shows, he appeared in costume, performed his dance, the <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Shuffle&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #d73333; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Soupy Shuffle (page does not exist)">Soupy Shuffle</a>, introduced many characters such as Nicky Nooney, the Mississippi Gambler, etc., and took "zillions" of pies in the face.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><h5 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Los_Angeles">Los Angeles</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=6" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Los Angeles">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h5><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">In 1960, Sales moved to the ABC-TV studios in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Los_Angeles" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Los Angeles">Los Angeles</a>. ABC cancelled his show in March 1961, but it continued as a local program on KABC-TV until January 1962. It briefly went back on the ABC network as a late night fill-in for <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Steve_Allen_Show" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Steve Allen Show">The Steve Allen Show</a></i> in 1962, but was canceled after three months. All of the puppets on the show during its Los Angeles run were also operated by <a class="new" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Clyde_Adler&action=edit&redlink=1" style="background: none; color: #d73333; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Clyde Adler (page does not exist)">Clyde Adler</a>, whom a 1962 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TV_Guide" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="TV Guide">TV Guide</a> listing describes as "West Coast disk jockey and comedian". Sales' fame was significant enough that he was hired as a <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tonight_Show" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tonight Show">Tonight Show</a></i> guest host in the period between <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Paar" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jack Paar">Jack Paar</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_Carson" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Johnny Carson">Johnny Carson</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-8" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-8" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[8]</a></sup></p><h5 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="New_York">New York</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=7" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: New York">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h5><figure style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; clear: right; color: #202122; display: table; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; min-width: 100px; text-align: center;" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a class="mw-file-description" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="1361" data-file-width="1200" decoding="async" height="204" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg/180px-Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg/270px-Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg/360px-Frank_Sinatra_and_Soupy_Sales.jpg 2x" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); margin: 3px; vertical-align: middle;" width="180" /></a><figcaption style="border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 12.376px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 6px 6px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;">As Sales' guest, Frank Sinatra was no more immune to a pie in the face than his host.</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">On September 7, 1964, Sales found a new weekday home at <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNYW-TV" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WNYW-TV">WNEW-TV</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_City" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="New York City">New York City</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-9" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-9" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[9]</a></sup> This version was seen locally until September 2, 1966. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Screen_Gems" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Screen Gems">Screen Gems</a> syndicated 260 episodes to local stations outside the New York market during the 1965–66 season. This show marked the height of Sales' popularity. It featured guest appearances by stars such as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Curtis" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tony Curtis">Tony Curtis</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerry_Lewis" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jerry Lewis">Jerry Lewis</a>,<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-4" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTOBIT-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judy_Garland" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Judy Garland">Judy Garland</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sammy_Davis_Jr." style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Sammy Davis Jr.">Sammy Davis Jr.</a>, as well as musical groups like <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shangri-Las" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Shangri-Las">the Shangri-Las</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supremes" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Supremes">The Supremes</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Temptations" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Temptations">The Temptations</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-nydn_10-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-nydn-10" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[10]</a></sup></p><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="The_New_Soupy_Sales_Show:_Los_Angeles">The New Soupy Sales Show: Los Angeles</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=8" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: The New Soupy Sales Show: Los Angeles">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h4><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;"><i>The New Soupy Sales Show</i> appeared in 1978 with the same format, and ran for one season. 65 episodes were briefly syndicated, through Air Time International, to local stations in early 1979. It was taped in Los Angeles at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KTLA" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="KTLA">KTLA</a>, with Clyde Adler returning to work as a puppeteer with Sales.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-11" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-11" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[11]</a></sup></p><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Characters">Characters</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=9" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Characters">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h4><figure style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; clear: right; color: #202122; display: table; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; min-width: 100px; text-align: center;" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a class="mw-file-description" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="725" data-file-width="445" decoding="async" height="293" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG/180px-Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG/270px-Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4e/Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG/360px-Soupy_Sales_and_White_Fang_1957.JPG 2x" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); margin: 3px; vertical-align: middle;" width="180" /></a><figcaption style="border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 12.376px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 6px 6px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;">Sales with White Fang in 1957</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Clyde Adler, the show's floor manager and a film editor at Detroit's WXYZ, performed in sketches and voiced and operated all puppets on Sales' show in Detroit in the 1950s and in Los Angeles from 1959 to 1962, as well as in 1978. Actor <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nastasi" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Nastasi">Frank Nastasi</a>, who played the part of Gramps on WXYZ-TV's other kids' show <i>Wixie Wonderland</i>, assumed the role of straight man and puppeteer when Sales took the show to New York from 1964 to 1966. Nastasi was originally from Detroit and had worked with Sales at WXYZ. Appearing on the show were both <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puppet" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Puppet">puppets</a> and live performers.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">The puppets were:</p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>White Fang</b>, "The Biggest and Meanest Dog in the USA", who appeared only as a giant white shaggy paw with black triangular felt "claws", jutting out from the corner of the screen. Fang spoke with unintelligible short grunts and growls, which Soupy repeated back in English, for comic effect. White Fang was often the pie thrower when Soupy's jokes bombed.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Black Tooth</b>, "The Biggest and Sweetest Dog in the USA", also seen only as a giant black paw with white triangular felt claws, and with more feminine, but similarly unintelligible, dialogue. Black Tooth's trademark was pulling Soupy off-camera to give loud and noisy kisses.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">For a short time there was a third dog character that became White Fang's girlfriend, Marilyn Monwolf. She caused some rivalry of affections between Black Tooth and White Fang, but later jilted them both for Joe Dogmaggio.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Pookie the Lion</b>, a lion puppet appearing in a large window behind Soupy (1950s), was a hipster with a rapier wit. For example: Soupy: "Do you know why my life is so miserable?" Pookie: "You got me!" Soupy: "That's why!" One of Pookie's favorite lines when greeting Soupy was, "Hey bubby... want a kiss?". In the Detroit shows, Pookie never spoke but communicated in whistles. That puppet also was used to mouth the words while pantomiming novelty records on the show.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><b>Hippy the Hippo</b>, a minor character who occasionally appeared with Pookie the Lion. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Nastasi" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Nastasi">Frank Nastasi</a> gave Hippy a voice for the New York shows. Clyde Adler also voiced Hippy in the shows done in the late 1970s.</li></ul><h4 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span id="New_Year.27s_Day_incident"></span><span class="mw-headline" id="New_Year's_Day_incident">New Year's Day incident</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=10" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: New Year's Day incident">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h4><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">On January 1, 1965, miffed at having to work on the holiday, Sales ended his live broadcast by encouraging his young viewers to tiptoe into their still-sleeping parents' bedrooms and remove those "funny green pieces of paper with pictures of U.S. presidents" from their pants and pocketbooks. "Put them in an envelope and mail them to me and I'll send you a postcard from Puerto Rico", Sales instructed the children.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-12" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-12" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[12]</a></sup> Several days later, substantial amounts of money had begun arriving in the mail; Sales stated that the total amount received was in the thousands of dollars but qualified that by stating that much of that was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monopoly_(game)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Monopoly (game)">Monopoly</a> or <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Play_money" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Play money">play money</a>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-13" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-13" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[13]</a></sup> Sales said he had been joking, and that whatever real money had been sent would be donated to charity, but as parents' complaints increased, WNEW's management suspended Sales for two weeks.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-soupy-sez_14-0" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-soupy-sez-14" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[14]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Records">Records</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=11" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Records">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">One of the fans of the Soupy Sales show was <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Sinatra" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Frank Sinatra">Frank Sinatra</a>. It appears Sinatra became a fan after his daughter Nancy begged him to visit the show. When Sinatra started his own record label, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reprise_Records" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Reprise Records">Reprise Records</a>, he signed Sales to a recording contract, which produced two albums: <i>The Soupy Sales Show</i> in 1961 and <i>Up in the Air</i> in 1962.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-15" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-15" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[15]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales' novelty dance record, '"The Mouse", dates from the mid-1960s period of his career, when his show was based in New York. The single, released on the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ABC-Paramount" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="ABC-Paramount">ABC-Paramount</a> label, peaked at #76 on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Hot_100" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Billboard Hot 100"><i>Billboard</i> Hot 100</a> chart in May 1965.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-16" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-16" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[16]</a></sup> Sales performed "The Mouse" on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ed_Sullivan_Show" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Ed Sullivan Show">The Ed Sullivan Show</a></i> in September 1965, just prior to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beatles" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Beatles">The Beatles</a>' segment on the show. Sales signed with <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motown_Records" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Motown Records">Motown Records</a> in 1969, releasing the single "Muck-Arty Park" (a play on the 1968 hit "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MacArthur_Park_(song)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="MacArthur Park (song)">MacArthur Park</a>"), as well as the album <i>A Bag of Soup</i>. Soupy and Frank Nastasi also cut and recorded a comedy and song story disk, "Spy with a Pie", for ABC-Paramount. It was re-released by "Simon Says" children's records.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-17" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-17" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[17]</a></sup></p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Game_shows">Game shows</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=12" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Game shows">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">From 1968 to 1975, Sales was a regular panelist on the syndicated revival of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/What%27s_My_Line%3F" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="What's My Line?">What's My Line?</a>.</i> (He had been a guest panelist on one episode of the original version in 1965.) He was usually the first panelist introduced and occupied the chair on the far left side (facing the camera), next to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arlene_Francis" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Arlene Francis">Arlene Francis</a>. In 1969, he appeared on <i>Storybook Squares</i>, a children's version of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hollywood Squares">Hollywood Squares</a></i>, as Henry VIII.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-18" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-18" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[18]</a></sup> In 1976, he hosted <i>Junior <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Almost_Anything_Goes" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Almost Anything Goes">Almost Anything Goes</a></i>, ABC's Saturday morning version of their team-based physical stunt program. He was also a panelist on the 1980 revival of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/To_Tell_the_Truth" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="To Tell the Truth">To Tell the Truth</a></i>; he had appeared as a guest on the show during the mid- to late 1970s. Other game show appearances included over a dozen episodes of the original <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Game" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Match Game">Match Game</a></i> from 1966 to 1969 as well as one week of the revived version in 1976; a week of shows on the 1970s edition of <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gong_Show" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Gong Show">The Gong Show</a>; a</i> couple of guest spots on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollywood_Squares" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hollywood Squares">Hollywood Squares</a></i> (December 12, 1977, and April 4, 1978) and a few appearances on the combined version <i>(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Match_Game-Hollywood_Squares_Hour" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour">Match Game-Hollywood Squares Hour</a>)</i> in 1983–84; and a recurring role in all versions of <i><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyramid_(game_show)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pyramid (game show)">Pyramid</a></i> from 1973 to 1988 and 1991 (in one famous episode of which he repeatedly uttered the word "bacon", trying to get a confused contestant to say "greasy things").<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-19" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-19" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[19]</a></sup> He was considered as a host in Nickelodeon's game show, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Dare_(franchise)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Double Dare (franchise)"><i>Double Dare</i></a>, but was deemed too old (the job went to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Summers" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Marc Summers">Marc Summers</a>). He also made an appearance on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictionary" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pictionary">Pictionary</a></i> in 1997.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (August 2015)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Radio_show">Radio show</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=13" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Radio show">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><table class="box-Unreferenced_section plainlinks metadata ambox ambox-content ambox-Unreferenced" role="presentation" style="background-color: #fbfbfb; border-color: rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(162, 169, 177) rgb(242, 133, 0); border-image: initial; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 10px; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 94.7969px;"><tbody><tr><td class="mbox-image" style="border: none; padding: 2px 0px 2px 0.5em; text-align: center;"><div class="mbox-image-div" style="width: 52px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a class="mw-file-description" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Question_book-new.svg" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><img alt="" class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="399" data-file-width="512" decoding="async" height="39" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/50px-Question_book-new.svg.png" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/75px-Question_book-new.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/9/99/Question_book-new.svg/100px-Question_book-new.svg.png 2x" style="border: 0px; vertical-align: middle;" width="50" /></a></span></div></td><td class="mbox-text" style="border: none; padding: 0.25em 0.5em; width: 668.406px;"><div class="mbox-text-span">This section <b>does not <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citing_sources" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citing sources">cite</a> any <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">sources</a></b>.<span class="hide-when-compact"> Please help <a class="external text" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit" style="background: none !important; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding: 0px !important; text-decoration-line: none;">improve this section</a> by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Referencing_for_beginners" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Help:Referencing for beginners">adding citations to reliable sources</a>. Unsourced material may be challenged and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Burden_of_evidence" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Verifiability">removed</a>.</span> <span class="date-container"><i>(<span class="date">May 2018</span>)</i></span><span class="hide-when-compact"><i> (<small style="font-size: 11.9px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Help:Maintenance_template_removal" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Help:Maintenance template removal">Learn how and when to remove this template message</a></small>)</i></span></div></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales hosted a midday radio show on <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WNBC_(AM)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="WNBC (AM)">WNBC</a> in New York from March 1985 to March 1987. His program was between the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drive_time" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Drive time">drive time</a> shifts of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don_Imus" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Don Imus">Don Imus</a> (morning) and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Stern" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Howard Stern">Howard Stern</a> (afternoon), with whom Sales had an acrimonious relationship. An example of this was an incident where Stern told listeners he was cutting the strings in Sales' in-studio piano at 4:05 p.m. on May 1, 1985. On December 21, 2007, Stern revealed this was a stunt staged for "theater of the mind" and to torture Sales; in truth, the piano was never harmed. Sales' on-air crew included his producer, Ray D'Ariano, newscaster Judy DeAngelis, and pianist Paul Dver.</p><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Film">Film</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=14" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Film">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><figure class="mw-default-size" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; clear: right; color: #202122; display: table; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; min-width: 100px; text-align: center;" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a class="mw-file-description" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="1370" data-file-width="1200" decoding="async" height="251" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg/220px-6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg/330px-6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/bc/6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg/440px-6.8.08SoupySalesByLuigiNovi.jpg 2x" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); margin: 3px; vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a><figcaption style="border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 12.376px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 6px 6px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;">Sales autographing books at the <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Apple_Convention" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Big Apple Convention">Big Apple Convention</a> in Manhattan, 2008</figcaption></figure><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales had a sporadic film career that spanned over 40 years, including:</p><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1961 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Little_Bears" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Two Little Bears">The Two Little Bears</a></i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1963 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critic%27s_Choice_(film)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Critic's Choice (film)">Critic's Choice</a></i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1966 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birds_Do_It" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Birds Do It">Birds Do It</a></i> (starring role). Sales was vocal in his dislike for this film.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap;">[<i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1977 – <i>Don't Push, I'll Charge When I'm Ready</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1993 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Making_of_%27...And_God_Spoke%27" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Making of '...And God Spoke'">The Making of... 'And God Spoke'</a></i> - his memorable appearance as himself, hired by two incompetent filmmakers to portray Moses because <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlton_Heston" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Charlton Heston">Charlton Heston</a> was not available.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1999 – <i>Palmer's Pick Up</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2000 – <i>A Little Bit of Lipstick</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2000 – <i>Behind the Seams</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2001 – <i>This Train</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2005 – <i>The Innocent and the Damned</i></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2005 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angels_with_Angles" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Angels with Angles">Angels with Angles</a></i></li></ul><h3 style="background-color: white; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.6; margin: 0.3em 0px 0px; overflow: hidden; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.5em;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Television">Television</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-size: small; font-weight: normal; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=15" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Television">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h3><ul style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; list-style-image: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/bullet-icon.svg?d4515"); margin: 0.3em 0px 0px 1.6em; padding: 0px;"><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sales' first dramatic acting roles came in 1960 as an unnamed stable owner in "The Legacy" and as Meyers in "The Hope Chest" on the ABC <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_(genre)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Western (genre)">western</a> <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Television_series" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Television series">television series</a> <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rebel_(American_TV_series)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Rebel (American TV series)">The Rebel</a></i>, starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Adams_(actor,_born_1931)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nick Adams (actor, born 1931)">Nick Adams</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sales appeared as himself in one of the later episodes of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBS" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="CBS">CBS</a> military sitcom/drama series <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hennesey" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hennesey">Hennesey</a></i>, starring <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Cooper" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jackie Cooper">Jackie Cooper</a>.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">Sales made several guest appearances on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Carol_Burnett_Show" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Carol Burnett Show">The Carol Burnett Show</a></i>.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-20" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-20" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[20]</a></sup></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1962 – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miss_Teen_USA" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Miss Teen USA">Miss Teen USA</a> pageant at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific_Ocean_Park" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Pacific Ocean Park">Pacific Ocean Park</a> in Santa Monica, California, where Sales hosted and crowned the winner (Linda Henning, 15, of Sioux Falls, South Dakota)<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-21" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-21" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[21]</a></sup></li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1962 – <i>Ensign O'Toole</i> TV show, Season 1, Episode 5, "Operation Jinx", with Sales as Jinx Johnson</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1963 – Sales played "Hank Salamanca", a musician guest at the farm, on <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_McCoys" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Real McCoys">The Real McCoys</a></i>, episode 32 "The McCoy Sound".</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1964 – "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Route_66_(TV_series)#Fourth_season_(1963-1964)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Route 66 (TV series)">This is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You</a>", <i>Route 66</i>, Episode 113 in the fourth and last season, fourth-to-last episode</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1969 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Beverly_Hillbillies" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The Beverly Hillbillies">The Beverly Hillbillies</a>:</i> Milburn Drysdale's nephew, Air Force ace Jet Bradford.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1982-1984 - <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturday_Supercade" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Saturday Supercade">Saturday Supercade</a></i> - Sales provided the voice for the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Nintendo">Nintendo</a> character <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donkey_Kong" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Donkey Kong">Donkey Kong</a>, becoming the first actor to portray the character.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1989 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monsters_(American_TV_series)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Monsters (American TV series)">Monsters</a>:</i> Season 2 Episode 6, as "Traveling Salesman".</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">1994 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wings_(1990_TV_series)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Wings (1990 TV series)">Wings</a>:</i> Season 6 Episode 8, "Miss Jenkins": Sales played a character named Fred Gardner, and performed "Simon Says" with Lowell.</li><li style="margin-bottom: 0.1em;">2001 – <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Scorpion_(TV_series)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Black Scorpion (TV series)">Black Scorpion</a>:</i> super-villain Professor Prophet</li></ul><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Personal_life">Personal life</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=16" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Personal life">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales was married twice: first to Barbara Fox, from 1950 until their divorce in 1979. They had two sons, both of whom are rock musicians: bassist <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Sales" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tony Sales">Tony Sales</a> and drummer <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunt_Sales" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Hunt Sales">Hunt Sales</a>, The brothers were the rhythm section for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Todd_Rundgren" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Todd Rundgren">Todd Rundgren</a> in the early '70s, then for <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iggy_Pop" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Iggy Pop">Iggy Pop</a> starting in the mid-70's, and later were half the band <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tin_Machine" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Tin Machine">Tin Machine</a> with <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="David Bowie">David Bowie</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reeves_Gabrels" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Reeves Gabrels">Reeves Gabrels</a>, from 1988-1992. In 1980, Sales married dancer Trudy Carson, who survives him.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-5" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-NYTOBIT-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[1]</a></sup></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Sales died on October 22, 2009, at Calvary Hospice in <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bronx,_New_York" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Bronx, New York">Bronx</a>, New York, aged 83, from cancer.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-22" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-22" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[22]</a></sup> He is buried at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kensico_Cemetery" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kensico Cemetery">Kensico Cemetery</a> in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valhalla,_New_York" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Valhalla, New York">Valhalla, New York</a>.</p><figure class="mw-default-size" style="background-color: #f8f9fa; border-bottom-color: initial; border-bottom-style: initial; border-collapse: collapse; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-top-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 0px; clear: right; color: #202122; display: table; float: right; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 0; margin: 0.5em 0px 1.3em 1.4em; min-width: 100px; text-align: center;" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a class="mw-file-description" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg" style="background: none; border: 0px; color: #3366cc; display: block; overflow-wrap: break-word; position: relative; text-decoration-line: none;"><img class="mw-file-element" data-file-height="2150" data-file-width="3232" decoding="async" height="146" src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg/220px-Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg/330px-Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ee/Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg/440px-Friars_Club_section_Kensico_Cem..jpg 2x" style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial; background-size: initial; border: 1px solid rgb(200, 204, 209); margin: 3px; vertical-align: middle;" width="220" /></a><figcaption style="border-bottom-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-bottom-style: solid; border-image: initial; border-left-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-left-style: solid; border-right-color: rgb(200, 204, 209); border-right-style: solid; border-top-color: initial; border-top-style: initial; border-width: 0px 1px 1px; caption-side: bottom; display: table-caption; font-size: 12.376px; line-height: 1.4em; padding: 0px 6px 3px; text-align: left; word-break: break-word;"></figcaption></figure><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="Reruns">Reruns</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=17" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: Reruns">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-left: 0.25em;">]</span></span></h2><p style="background-color: white; color: #202122; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0.5em 0px 1em;">Janet Oseroff was Sales' manager in the last years of his life, and she continues to represent his estate with Sales' wife Trudy.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-23" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-23" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[23]</a></sup> They license reruns of over 100 shows, including the entirety of <i>The New Soupy Sales Show</i> and the extant episodes from Sales' earlier black-and-white shows. Sales' shows have aired since 2011 on <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Life_Television" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jewish Life Television">Jewish Life Television</a><sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-24" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-24" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[24]</a></sup> and since 2013 on <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Retro_Television_Network" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Retro Television Network">Retro Television Network</a>, the latter airing once a week.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-25" style="font-size: 11.2px; line-height: 1; text-wrap: nowrap; unicode-bidi: isolate;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_note-25" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;">[25]</a></sup></p><h2 style="background-color: white; border-bottom: 1px solid rgb(162, 169, 177); font-family: "Linux Libertine", Georgia, Times, "Source Serif Pro", serif; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.375; margin: 1em 0px 0.25em; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px;"><span class="mw-headline" id="References">References</span><span class="mw-editsection" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 0; margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 0px; unicode-bidi: isolate; user-select: none; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; margin-right: 0.25em;">[</span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Soupy_Sales&action=edit&section=18" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none; text-wrap: nowrap;" title="Edit section: References">edit</a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color: #54595d; 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clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; top: -99999px; user-select: none; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-2" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-3" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-4" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-NYTOBIT_1-5" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFGoldstein2009" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Goldstein_(writer_born_1942)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Richard Goldstein (writer born 1942)">Goldstein, Richard</a> (October 23, 2009). <a class="external text" href="https://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/23/arts/television/23sales.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=Soupy%20Sales&st=cse" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;">"Soupy Sales, Slapstick Comedian, Dies at 83"</a>. <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_New_York_Times" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a></i>. p. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">October 24,</span> 2009</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Soupy+Sales%2C+Jazz+Maven%2C+Brought+Gigs+to+the+Small+Screen&rft.date=2009-10-23&rft.aulast=Ratliff&rft.aufirst=Ben&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fartsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com%2F2009%2F10%2F23%2Fsoupy-sales-jazz-maven-brought-live-gigs-to-the-small-screen%2F%3Fhp&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASoupy+Sales"></span></span></li><li id="cite_note-3" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1 mw-references 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a aria-label="Jump up" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-3" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jump up">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Carlson, Michael (October 31, 2009). <a class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/soupy-sales-anarchic-and-pioneering-childrens-tv-personality-1812400.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;">"Soupy Sales: Anarchic and pioneering children's TV personality"</a>. <i>The Independent</i>. London. 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Archived from <a class="external text" href="http://www.amdest.com/stars/ssales.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;">the original</a> on January 18, 2014<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">October 21,</span> 2019</span>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Hollywood+Celebrity+Corner&rft.atitle=Soupy+Sales&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amdest.com%2Fstars%2Fssales.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASoupy+Sales"></span></span></li><li id="cite_note-Daytime-5" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1 mw-references 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a aria-label="Jump up" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-Daytime_5-0" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jump up">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFHyatt1997" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hyatt, Wesley (1997). <a class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaofda00hyat/page/402/mode/2up" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;"><i>The Encyclopedia of Daytime Television</i></a>. Watson-Guptill Publications. pp. 403–404. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0823083152" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Special:BookSources/978-0823083152"><bdi>978-0823083152</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Retrieved <span class="nowrap" style="text-wrap: nowrap;">October 21,</span> 2019</span>. <q style="quotes: "\"" "\"" "'" "'";">In 1955, the show was picked up by ABC as a summer replacement for "<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kukla,_Fran_and_Ollie" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Kukla, Fran and Ollie">Kukla, Fran and Ollie</a>" and renamed "The Soupy Sales Show."<span class="cs1-kern-right" style="padding-right: 0.2em;"></span></q></cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Los+Angeles+Times&rft.atitle=Soupy+Sales+dies+at+83%3B+slapstick+comic+had+hit+TV+show+in+1960s&rft.date=2014-09-16&rft.aulast=Woo&rft.aufirst=Elaine&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.latimes.com%2Flocal%2Fobituaries%2Fla-me-soupy-sales23-2009oct23-story.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASoupy+Sales"></span></span></li><li id="cite_note-cadence-7" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1 mw-references 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;">^ <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-cadence_7-0" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><span class="cite-accessibility-label" style="border: 0px !important; clip: rect(1px, 1px, 1px, 1px); height: 1px !important; overflow: hidden; padding: 0px !important; position: absolute !important; top: -99999px; user-select: none; width: 1px !important;">Jump up to:</span><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-cadence_7-1" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-cadence_7-2" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;"><sup style="font-size: 10.08px; line-height: 1;"><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation journal cs1" id="CITEREFDonaldson2003" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;">Donaldson, Bill (February 2003). "Interview with Soupy Sales, December 28, 2001". <i><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadence_(magazine)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Cadence (magazine)">Cadence</a></i>. <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redwood,_New_York" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Redwood, New York">Redwood, New York</a>. <b>29</b> (2): 9–12. <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISSN_(identifier)" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a class="external text" href="https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0162-6973" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;">0162-6973</a>.</cite><span class="Z3988" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Cadence&rft.atitle=Interview+with+Soupy+Sales%2C+December+28%2C+2001&rft.volume=29&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=9-12&rft.date=2003-02&rft.issn=0162-6973&rft.aulast=Donaldson&rft.aufirst=Bill&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ASoupy+Sales"></span></span></li><li id="cite_note-8" style="break-inside: avoid-column; counter-increment: mw-ref-extends-parent 1 mw-references 1; counter-reset: mw-ref-extends-child 0; margin-bottom: 0.1em;"><span class="mw-cite-backlink" style="user-select: none;"><b><a aria-label="Jump up" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soupy_Sales#cite_ref-8" style="background: none; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; text-decoration-line: none;" title="Jump up">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation journal cs1" style="font-style: inherit; overflow-wrap: break-word;"><a class="external text" href="http://www.tvparty.com/soupy-sales.html" rel="nofollow" style="background: url("/w/skins/Vector/resources/skins.vector.styles/images/link-external-small-ltr-progressive.svg?fb64d") right center / 0.857em no-repeat; color: #3366cc; overflow-wrap: break-word; padding-right: 1em; text-decoration-line: none;">"The Tonight Show Starring Soupy Sales"</a>. <i>TV Party</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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He meant so much, to so many, for so long.
“Fire...the wheel...Playboy.”
I could say that to Hef, and he would know what I meant. We could speak in shorthand. “Glad that’s all cleared up,” I would turn and say to him after the generally meaningless, nonsensical new movies we’d see Sundays at the Playboy Mansion.
There were hand gestures and signs, too, which few others understood. Like the “Shudder Club” greeting from Hef’s childhood, or the “Just the reverse” hand-swivel from Laurel & Hardy’s WRONG AGAIN. Plus also Our Gang’s “High Sign.” And Gary Cooper’s two-finger salute from WINGS. Hef used to give that one a lot. His friends got it.
Hugh Hefner had the world's most amazing life. That's all. He had it going on, in a big way, for the longest time.
Hard finding the words for this, at least not that mean as much as I would like them to, on a tough day. Anyway everyone already knows, or should know, everything about Hef, don’t they? He was a national icon in the public eye; he had no secrets, nothing to hide.
He lived large. Clearly Hef was sybarite who sought personal pleasure to the nth degree, in high style, but he was also a workaholic and an intellectual giant. A dichotomy? No. There were two sides to Hef, in more ways than one. He worked hard, he played hard, and for all to see. He always said, “My life is an open book, with illustrations.”
So in any kind of memorial, what can you say, what can you add about someone who caused a socio-sexual revolution and changed the culture? A prophet who changed the world, really. And who was so misjudged by the world, as though he had recreated his own private Sodom and Gomorrah right there in Holmby Hills.
For starters, true, the version of "Hef" most people saw was his flamboyant public persona, the one who staged wild parties with plenty of plasticized pulchritude at Hollywood’s most notorious address. This characterization was the invention of a high school-age Hugh Hefner in response to being rejected by a young lady named Betty Conklin, whom he had a crush on. He lost her to another boy. When, later, in her 60’s, 70’s, and 80’s, Betty Conklin – still Hef’s friend -- would attend all the big Playboy theme parties, adorned by hundreds of drop-dead gorgeous young girls dressed in dental floss, I’d tell her with some delight, “Look around here. You see these lovely young ladies who have obviously just patronized the Trashy Lingerie store on La Cienega? They’re all here tonight – every single one of them -- as mere surrogates for you! And why? Because Hef is still working out what happened between the two of you as teenagers.”
That always tickled her.
We carry our childhoods with his, and hidden inside the alter-ago of “Hef” was the shy teenager who had reinvented himself. Again, two sides to the man.
Few really knew him, I mean the private Hugh Hefner, that boy he kept hidden. Those of us who did were lucky. We were so lucky. We were blessed, we were privileged. We became a family. We became his family. Besides his thoughtful and generous friendship, we truly enjoyed what can only be described as a modern day Hearst Castle-San Simeon existence (home of another controversial publisher), where he was the most gracious host, a Gatsby-like host.
On the other side of “the boy who dreamed the dreams” were, as mentioned, those huge, wild, spectacular all night parties -- the Midsummer Night's Dream Party, Halloween, New Year's Eve, Valentine's Day, the Fourth of July, etc. Populated by celebrities, the hipster elite, killer Playmates and Playmate wannabes, they reflected Hef's interest in hedonism and debauchery. No question. And those parties were really something.
I remember the time I met Donald and Ivanka Trump at the Midsummer’s party, who were admitted even though they failed to pass the mandatory dress code for pajamas and lingerie. The memories now are continuous and unending.
After one particular Halloween party (with credit to Rich Correll), I said to Hef that in the entire history of mankind, there could never have been a better party, anywhere, at any time. Could there? No. Never. Where? I challenged Hef and others at the dinner table to name where and when in all of creation there could ever have been a party to rival what we had just survived – to the extent we had. Try to name one, I challenged the room. No one could. The silent response of everyone left Hef sitting there in his gunfighter black pajamas, with a big smile on his face, content to silently sip on his beloved Jack Daniels and Pepsi (never Coca Cola). I remember that day, too.
There were also the lovely, old fashioned, sentimental, nostalgic and more intimate parties during the holidays -- Christmas, Easter, Thanksgiving. Sitting at the immaculate formal dining room table on those nights, you felt as though you'd walked onto the set of an Irving Thalberg 1930’s big budget, class “A”-produced movie at M-G-M.
The inner circle of friends, the regular habitués, this family – truly, we had won the lottery of all lotteries.
Hef was always the smartest, the fastest person in the room, and I mean any room, anywhere, ever. His intellectual firepower could be staggering. He was also a man of introspection. His hearing was failing in recent times, which often made any kind of extended discussion difficult, but we used to have serious and meaningful conversations that taught me lot.
Questions about beautiful Playmates? Sure. We covered that early on. Only he, however, could use the best pick-up line of all time, “Hello, I’m Hugh Hefner.” As for the beautiful young ladies one might meet at the Playboy Mansion, well, they may look pure as the driven snow, but as Hef warned, “Some have drifted.”
Between his three shots at wedded bliss, he would quote his friend Woody Allen on the subject: “Marriage is the death of hope.” Now who could argue with that? I will say, however, and for the record, that Crystal Hefner made him a happily married man at last. I saw the evidence of this. Hef really did love Crystal.
Playmate Anne Randall has long been happily married to one of Hef’s dearest and oldest friends, Dick Stewart. “One time we were out by the pool,” she remembered, “and Hef had all these beautiful girls around, and I said to him, ‘Do you know, Hef, do you ever suspect that these girls might be after you for your money?’ And he looked at me, and he laughed, and he said, ‘I don’t care why they are after me, just so that they’re after me!’”
What else did I learn? I remember, for example, key conversations concerning evolutionary psychology, and one thing we shared was a keen interest in the central questions of life: who we are, how we got that way, what it means, and what we can do about it. In his case, as Hugh Marston Hefner, the boy who dreamed the dreams, again as mentioned, he reinvented himself as "Hef." That’s what he did about it.
Not everyone can do that successfully, however. Cary Grant films were always prized at the Playboy Mansion. When they were over, though, how many of us left the property as Cary Grant? I mean besides the great Ray Anthony, who is still successfully trading on the resemblance!
Something else we shared: Hef loved movies, and he particularly loved the time travel aspect of old movies, as I do. He reached the age of reason during the depths of the Great Depression, only to discover that he had just missed the Roaring 20’s as celebrated by Saint Paul’s F. Scott Fitzgerald in the THE GREAT GATSBY, a book which greatly influenced Hef. Having missed the party, he was always looking back to try and recreate the feeling of the era he read about as a boy, and longed to experience for himself.
Growing up in the 1930’s, besides his interest in pulp magazines, pin-up art, comic books, and detective fiction (he would reprint Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Sherlock Holmes” stories in the early days of PLAYBOY), Hef spent probably too much of his time seeing movies in the darkness of the Montclair Theater in Chicago. That was the sacred place where he dreamed the dreams and fantasies which inspired his lifestyle and lead to the creation of PLAYBOY magazine. Up there writ large on the silver screen, he saw and heard musicals that stirred him, populated by three actresses in particular – “those wonderful blondes from my childhood,” he’d say -- who he fell in love with: Toby Wing, Grace Bradley (who married William Boyd, who was “Hopalong Cassidy”), and his most favorite, Alice Faye. Eventually he would meet them all, and I was there to watch it happen each time.
In 1992, my friend Ed Hulse was the chair of our annual Cinecon film convention in Hollywood. He invited Alice Faye as a guest. I shared the news with Hef, who seldom left the sanctuary of Playboy Mansion West. But meeting Alice Faye was as special as it got for Hugh Hefner. With a full detail of armed security officers, and friend Chuck McCann, we piled into the limousine heading for the Roosevelt Hotel, where right outside one can find Hef’s star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Inside, Hef, at last, met Alice Faye. Each was thrilled; it was at once a love fest of mutual admiration. Hef behaved like the love struck schoolboy he still was inside. Then we screened one of her pictures for a packed house, followed by a question and answer session. “I was standing off to the side of the dais watching Hef,” Ed recalls. “He sat in the front row, hanging on her every word and looking for all the world like any other smitten fanboy.”
I would rather stick steel-pointed needles in my temples than face the fact that Hugh Hefner was just interred at the small, discreet Westwood Memorial Park Cemetery, in the crypt right next to Marilyn Monroe. She was on the cover of the famous first issue of PLAYBOY, smiling and waving. Inside, her nude pictorial against a lush background of red velvet secured success for Hef’s start-up company in 1953. Yet he never, ever met her. Not once. He ran with a lot of Playmates of course, but not that many starlets and actresses. (That was Ray Anthony’s venue. Visit YouTube and search under his name along with “Marilyn Monroe.”) Rather, it was Keith Hefner, not Hugh Hefner, who knew Marilyn. They studied acting together in New York at the Actors Studio, under the auspices of Lee Strasberg, who was artistic director there.
In 2006 Hef told THE LOS ANGELES TIMES, “I really feel in a fundamental way that American films, especially from the first half of the 20th century, are the best exponent of what we refer to as the American dream.”
The films Hef saw in his youth shaped everything he did. CASABLANCA was his favorite, and he would run it for us every year on his birthday, April 9. We all knew it by heart. Everyone in attendance would show up dressed in period costume from the picture. The festive event was celebrated as “CASABLANCA Night.”
One year, after Hef had donated yet another $1 million to the UCLA Film and Television Archive in order to support the cause of film preservation, I told Rob Stone as film curator there that a special way to thank him would be to arrange for projection of an original 35mm shimmering nitrate print on his birthday. Nothing compares with seeing a nitrate print, of a classic picture, projected on a silver screen, in a darkened theater, with a respectful audience. That’s all you want. No one anywhere today, however, without special clearance, could screen dangerous, flammable nitrate prints because they have the same chemical composition as gunpowder, and will burn under water. Nitrate fires in movie theaters are why the industry switched to safety film stock around 1950. So this event would be a once in a lifetime opportunity. We took a bus to the UCLA campus in nearby Westwood and the evening turned into a fantastic and unforgettable outing, though Rob remembers it as “one of the most nervous albeit gratifying days of my life.”
Hef felt obliged to repay the debt he believed he owed motion pictures. So, starting with the “Sherlock Holmes” feature films, he spent millions financing film preservation at UCLA, Warner Bros., etc., funding academic chairs at USC, underwriting film documentaries, and in separate eras twice paying enormous sums to restore the Hollywood sign. Who does that? Who else in Hollywood gives back that way? And that much? What an example for everyone else.
The best times at the Playboy Mansion were not the lavish parties, the big events. The best times were small gatherings for regular movie nights on Thursday, Friday, Saturday, Sunday, and Monday. Sundays we’d see brand new, and mostly forgettable movies. The rest of the time, old movies, from all genres. Chuck McCann used to sing, “Fridays are better than Sundays.” He was right. But so-called “Manly Night” on Monday was best of all.
Hef loved the romantic adventure of the Flash Gordon chapter play serials. We would see those on Mondays. He was partial to old mysteries and musicals, and any version of the “Frankenstein” saga. He liked the better Tarzan pictures (hence the Playboy Mansion was zoned as a zoo, with a wide array of exotic birds and animals all over the five-acre property). And he was partial to Mafia movies, especially THE GODFATHER, and its sequel. We looked at those almost as much as the Charlie Chan pictures: “Touch nothing….You are murderer….Thank you so much.” Twentieth Century-Fox was his favorite movie studio. Boris Karloff and Humphrey Bogart were his two favorite actors.
Those never-dull Monday night get-togethers were guys only, and precious few of them. Wonderful fellowship, every time. Grand fun. There would be dinner first, during which classy Mel Torme, “The Velvet Fog,” would break into song or entertain us with show biz patter and stories he remembered in amazing detail. What a talent.
Then we would nominate and vote on a selection of primarily Saturday Matinee-type pictures to screen that evening. Hef would conduct the voting. Poor Johnny Crawford would relentlessly nominate early sound musicals or obscure silent films that no one ever voted for. I once nominated (and we watched) the infamous TRIUMPH OF THE WILL, the greatest propaganda film of all time – except that it glorified Nazi Germany. Before the voting, and dead serious now, Ray Anthony inquired as a matter of information, “Who is the heavy in that?” As his dying wish, also dead serious, Don Adams extorted votes for a terrible Robert Mitchum movie called THE YAKUZA. Which died on the screen, and sure enough, shortly after, true to his word, so did Don.
Following dinner, but before the movie selection, Robert Culp would toast the room: “Gentlemen, gentlemen, be of good cheer; for they are out there, and we are in here.” Afterwards, Ray Anthony would awake from his nap, there would be the usual lofty dialectic where Chuck McCann would answer questions no one was asking about projection equipment, and of course there would also be the usual teasing, insults, and chicanery. Manly stuff, you know. Plus the late, great Bob Ridgely would prove once more why he was the funniest human being any of us had ever seen or encountered. Cover all bets. Only recently I reminded Hef that he had once stated, and with some emphasis, “I miss Bob Ridgely more than most of the members of my own family.” Sadly the rest of us are left to miss them both, now.
When one arrived at the massive gate way down the winding driveway lined with Redwood trees (the largest such grove in Southern California), and spoke to the famous White Rock hoping for admission to this miniature Versailles, this Shangri-La, this private oasis with a Gothic Tudor castle set high up on the hill, it was understood we all left our troubles outside. Right at the gate. Hef disliked conflict among his friends, and when he was between marriages, that included his disapproving of conflict among his posse of girl friends. Especially them. And much as we all loved Hef, he was less interested in you, than he was in your interest in him. First, last, and always, Hef was focused on Hef. So there was no whining and complaining about anything happening outside in the real world, outside those gates.
You would speak to the white rock, tell your name, and a disembodied voice from on high would ask, “Come on up, and how are you today, Mr. Bann?” With a smile on my face, the answer never varied: “Fine, now that I’m here.”
Any night at the legendary Playboy Mansion was guaranteed to be great. That place represented the living embodiment of PLAYBOY magazine, and it wasn’t part of 20th century mythology for nothing.
The books and the stories about him said that from childhood on, Hef never talked on the phone, or at least intensely disliked using the phone. But I would write detailed screening notes for the Friday films, that he delivered out loud, and he would phone me all the time to discuss them. We both spent hours each week on this endeavor, just for fun. During office hours, his executive social secretary, Mary O’Connor, would place the call and say, “Hold for Hef.” Or late at night at any hour past midnight, he would call himself. I’d pick up the phone and he would say, “Little Dickie Bann? Hefner here.”
When I failed to show up any evening, especially in the old days, he would phone my home right from the dinner table. Or if I arrived late, he or that trouble maker Ray Anthony would ask, “Where the hell have you been?” Answer was always the same: “If you insist upon knowing, I was in church all day, fasting and praying for the Godless heathens who come here.”
Ray would then advise me to get some new material.
The books and the stories also say Hef was an atheist. But I was careful to note the few, rare times he spoke of God as though he believed in him. I remember twice having long discussions with Hef and his brother Keith, on the subject. Their parents were quite religious, they were Methodists. Hef complained how he was raised in a Puritanical home. I failed to persuade them that in rejecting religion they might also be rejecting their parents who tried so hard to imbue them with their own deeply held religious values. No, even in their impressionable youths, Hef and Keith worshipped only at the altar of Hollywood make-believe inside the Montclair Theater. Of course I was never going to win any debate or argument with Hugh Hefner.
For his 80th birthday party, I concluded my remarks at the podium with a warning from DESIGN FOR LIVING, as spoken by Miriam Hopkins as a running gag throughout the film, “Immorality may be nice, but it’s not worth the price of 100% virtue, and three square meals a day.” Hef laughed and applauded.
As he got older, there were health concerns. Yet I never, once, ever heard either Hef or his brother complain, about anything. They were such positive people. Always upbeat, outgoing, cheerful. When Keith was dying of cancer, he never voiced a complaint. As Hef watched his only sibling pass, we never heard any kind of lament, or mourn, or complaint. I thought that was absolutely remarkable.
Something else that will surprise many. Hef’s politics. Yes, he voted for Democrats. He was a First Amendment, civil libertarian to be sure. What is also true is that across all of his values, Hugh Hefner was in certain respects a conservative. His inner circle of friends was almost exclusively political conservatives.
Sometimes he would come downstairs to dinner with gifts for us, maybe the new issue of PLAYBOY, maybe yet another Hugh Hefner biography, or some product or premium the company was promoting. I don’t collect autographs, but often he would sign these things to his friends. Most of the dedications are too personal to share, or too bawdy, but here is one example. When THE PLAYMATE BOOK was published in 1996, he wrote, “To Dick – I’ll send them by one bus load at a time! From your fearless leader – Hugh M. Hefner.”
People just don't know – and propriety forbids me from sharing a lot of it -- but I can't begin to itemize all the reasons why so many of us loved this man, and why some of us were so indebted to this man. He was the kindest, the warmest. So generous, so thoughtful. For everything he gave and provided for his friends, he asked nothing in return. A great man, a self-made man, who lived a great life.
Last May we screened a new biographical mini-series which Amazon produced on Hef at age 91, detailing his meteoric rise, his success as a media mogul, but also his efforts on behalf of First Amendment issues, women's rights, civil rights, race relations, how he fought against segregation, etc. When the ten-part series was over, the lights came up, I turned around and asked for his reaction. "I wish I could do it all over again," he said. "It's been a pretty good life."
Documentaries on Hef showed the greatness of the man, his philanthropy, the varied humanitarian causes he supported, but you had to know him, personally, to see his relentless generosity, his kindness, his innocence, his shyness, his sincerity, his intense loyalty. Upon my introduction to him, in 1990, I remember that Mary O'Connor, who was his "office wife," really, said of her boss, "How many people could suddenly become a multi-millionaire public figure at age 27, and not at the same time turn into an asshole?"
Overwhelmed by phone calls, and e-mails, there has been no time to read any press or media coverage of Hef's passing. I saw a few things briefly on Facebook. Leon Isaac Kennedy posted how Hef, long ago, used to put black entertainers on his TV programs, PLAYBOY’S PENTHOUSE and PLAYBOY AFTER DARK, despite protests from sponsors, especially in the South. Someone chimed in with a negative comment alleging that Hef and his magazine exploited women, and concluded with the charge that “He was no angel.”
A beautiful Playmate, Jami Farrell, expressed a beautiful thought in response, arguing that women who actually knew Hugh Hefner would offer a dissenting opinion. She wrote, “No other man has done so much to elevate women. The adventures and memories, our little date in PLAYBOY history next to him – it gets you through a lot of rough spots in life. He brought acceptance to what others condemned: women’s sexual freedom, equality of races, homosexuals, on and on. Angels would do well to follow his lead.”
Something else I saw -- I did start to read one tribute in THE BEVERLY HILLS COURIER, and then out of a decades-long habit, before I caught myself, I immediately thought, "Well, I have to clip and save this for Hef." Since childhood, Hef maintained personal scrapbooks documenting his life, thousands of them.
“It is a means of coping with mortality,” he reasoned, “or saying, in effect, ‘I was here, and this is what I accomplished.’”
I think he has worked on those scrapbooks every day since he was a kid. Well, the real Hugh Hefner, the one I knew, was always a kid at heart. Even at an early age, he knew he was going to do something important in life, and he wanted to save all the evidence of his journey. It was an activity he loved doing, because, once more, first, last and always, Hugh M. Hefner was interested in what “Hef” did. And he wanted his creation of “Hef” to leave lasting marks. Which he did, and how. .
Hef always wanted to get hold of everything written and said about him, the good and the bad. He was never bothered by anyone's criticisms. He would laugh that distinctive high-pitched cackle and explain it only proved that he was still relevant in the culture. I was more upset and defensive about the negative press than he was! Which amused him. His first job was with ESQUIRE magazine. About a dozen years ago I hesitated at handing him a piece from ESQUIRE which alleged Hef’s “galloping senility.” He laughed at me! Did not bother him at all. But I wanted to pass out the pistols.
“I am by nature a person who manages to make the best of things,” he would explain. “I am an optimist. I look for what is positive in a situation, and block out the rest.” This held true in his relationships as well, which he carefully explained to me only once, out at a club, trying to give advice, and I knew he was revealing something quite private. His thought was to always project the positive outcome he wanted to see in any given situation. Just as he would project whatever he wanted to see in a young lady he was attracted to, and at the same time willfully rejecting anything negative in the relationship. Just block it out.
Something else that made me defensive on his behalf. When Viagra was introduced, David Letterman viciously joked that “When Hef dies, they may have difficulty closing the coffin.” That line went over so big with his audience that Letterman used it in his monologue over and over for months. I clipped an item in the NEW YORK POST about it, but hesitated handing the story to Hef. When finally I did so, he laughed as heartily as anyone. He willed the rest out of his mind, pushed it right out of his consciousness – a kind of visualization technique. Living well was the best revenge, he thought, and the narcissism in Hef loved that the public was focused on him, and for any reason whatsoever, good or bad.
Right now, of course, the focus is sadly on Hef more than ever. Look at the media explosion surrounding his death. Processing the news, I couldn't be more stunned if North Korea dropped a hydrogen bomb on LAX. The never-ending party at Playboy Mansion West is finally over.
I leave for the Lone Pine Film Festival in a couple days, up in the spectacular Eastern Sierra Mountains. Sometimes when I would walk into the mansion dining room wearing Lone Pine garb, friends including Hef would give me grief.
“If it wasn’t for Lone Pine,” I would respond with mock indignation, “none of us would be here, including Hef!” In 1971 Hugh Hefner moved to Los Angeles and paid a little over $1 million to set the record for the largest single-family residential sale in the history of California. He consummated his transaction for the estate that would become the Playboy Mansion with industrialist Louis B. Statham, who was leaving to build his dream home…in Lone Pine.
I was with the NFL’s Fred Dryer, who also starred in HUNTER, at the home of Kevin Burns, who produced THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR (and so many fine documentaries about PLAYBOY), when word came of Hef’s passing. Soon Kendra Wilkinson – who first gained fame on THE GIRLS NEXT DOOR -- phoned, and she came over, too. The four of us were there until midnight reminiscing, processing what the news meant to us.
Between laughing and crying, we tried to make sense of this. Fred said to me, “You and I have now been given the task of finally completing Hef’s never-ending, serialized and leviathan ‘Playboy Philosophy’ in the magazine. It’s really a challenge, but I think we’re up to it.”
Hef used to take Dexedrine as a stimulant in order to stay up for days endlessly cranking out installments of “The Playboy Philosophy” for the magazine. He would regularly hand his editors piles of pages. There was never any settled finish to it. Frequent Playboy party guest Bill Maher distilled the whole thing into one sentence: Do whatever makes you happy in life, as long as you don’t hurt anyone.
During that evening, as we were commiserating, Kevin phoned Hef’s daughter, Christie, who was about to board a plane in Chicago. Christie has brainpower to rival her father’s. I always liked what Hef said about her when he put his daughter in charge of the business side of his company. “If she did not exist,” Hef said, “our public relations department would have to invent her.”
That’s how perfect she was for Playboy.
In just a couple months, I have lost three important mentors who greatly influenced my life – Saint Paul film critic and radio personality Bill Diehl; comedian Stan Laurel’s daughter, Lois; and Hugh Hefner, all around the 90-year mark. All severe blows for those of us who cared about them. A lesson learned, however, is that everything in life is a decision. We cannot always control what happens around us, but we can control how we react. Instead of focusing on what we have lost, it is far better to celebrate their lives, and be grateful for the opportunity we had, to, as Hef used to say, "Share the dream."
The advice he always gave, to everyone, was “Hold onto your dreams.” He turned his adolescent dreams into reality, and was forever sharing them with his friends.
Years ago, in a philosophical mood, Hef was reflecting, and said, “Life is so short. The only thing we really have, that’s really precious, is your time – is the life itself, the hours and the days. There is nothing I could urge anybody to do that would make more sense than to live your life every day at a time; really savor and enjoy it. I was always running like everyone else, we all do it. We think in terms of destination, objectives, accomplishments, etc. And the destination is what? Death. It’s a train trip, and the train is moving very fast. You look out the window, and you don’t see anything….You ought to get off the train, and walk around.
“As wild as my dreams were when I was a kid, I could not have imagined the life that I was going to be living. I remain in touch with the boy who dreamed the dreams, and I love that kid.
“The single driving force in my life has been looking for that perfect world, where the words to the songs are true, where you are given unquestioning, non-judgmental, total love. I’ve spent my life looking for that world…and it’s been a wonderful adventure.”
Again, look at how lucky we were, and how grateful we should be now, to have been part of Hugh Hefner’s life, and in some small way to share in those dreams. Gratitude is the key to happiness.
At nearly 96, Ray Anthony is the senior member of Hef's inner circle, and he has long preached a corollary, "Laughter is the best medicine." We should be guided accordingly. There were nights at the dinner table, or in the screening room, when our faces ached from the laughter. Hef was always having everything photographed, everything documented, for his voluminous scrapbooks. More than once he wanted Ray and me to pose for a picture, and each time he would say, “My two best friends.”
In truth, his brother Keith was always his best friend.
The last words I heard Hef speak, were on a Monday night -- the so-called "Manly Night," with his closest pals around him. After laughing all throughout a great John Barrymore and Carole Lombard comedy, TWENTIETH CENTURY, he waved good night to the seven or eight of us, and he said, leaving the room, "Love…you…all...."
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Donald Trump is building a new, unscalable wall around the White House today, and the Republican party has spent the past four years celebrating a wall on our southern border.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;">Fascists divide and imprison people based on ideology and race. Trump and the Republicans have put children in cages after tearing them away from their mothers, and built out a private for-profit pri<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">son system to hold refugees of color.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">Fascists don’t believe in free and fair elections, and Donald Trump and the Republican party have spent years fighting to make it harder for Americans to vote and have their vote counted. Right now, they are launching hundreds of lawsuits and other efforts across our nation to prevent people from voting or to block already-cast votes from being counted.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Fascists support the power of very wealthy people and the corporations that make them rich; after all, the definition of fascism is “the merger of corporate and state interests.“ Trump and the Republican Party have shoveled over 3 trillion dollars to the wealthiest Americans, and work every day to gut protective regulations.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Fascists use threats and intimidation to get their way politically, and Trump and his Republican allies are openly encouraging the American Taliban to harass Democratic politicians and voters on our roads and highways, in our cities, and at our polling places.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Fascist use the power of government to corruptly reward their friends and twist the law to punish their enemies. Trump and the Republicans he’s put in charge of the Justice Department and DHS have openly pursued politically motivated investigations, while giving giant corporations a pass and trying to block prosecutions and convictions of Trump’s criminal cronies.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Fascist pervert the justice systems of their nations by packing their court systems with rightwing ideologues. Trump and the Republicans have spent four years packing our federal court system with often-openly-unqualified rightwing lawyers.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">The world is watching, as the Republican Party has spent the last 20 years pushing America in an openly fascistic direction.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Last week, a group of more than 80 of America’s and the world’s top scholars and experts on authoritarianism and fascism wrote an open letter to the American public, saying, “We have seen all of these patterns in our study of the past, and we recognize the signs of a crisis of democracy... We need to turn away from the rule by entrenched elites and return to the rule of law. We must replace the politics of ‘internal enemies’ with a politics of adversaries in a healthy, democratic marketplace of ideas.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">They warn that “[I]f we don’t, we will indeed face dark days ahead.“</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">It’s a cliché to point out that after the Constitutional Convention in 1787 Ben Franklin said that they had created “a republic, if you can keep it,“ but he was right.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Vote.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Thom Hartmann</p></div>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-64729035114221113142020-10-13T23:14:00.000-07:002020-10-13T23:14:02.656-07:00God Bless our Veterans and the USPS!<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">The next time your neighborhood USPS delivers your mail, please take a moment to thank him or her for their services. I just received my mail at 9:50pm and thankfully my address was the last on his route. He's finishing an 11 hr day and won't receive overtime because that inept, POS postmaster general deliberately made cuts within the USPS and is holding back the mail.</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">He actually apologized to me for not delivering yesterday and for being so late today. That saddened me right there. I gave him a fist bump and said, Thank you very much for your service and Please do not apologize for something you can't control. I never post anything political on FB, but this pissed me off.</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px 0px;">Fyi, my postman served 8 yrs in Afghanistan.<br />God Bless our Veterans and the USPS!</p>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-43981888214814780042020-09-18T18:26:00.002-07:002020-09-18T18:26:33.825-07:00Abortion here to Stay!<p> <span style="background-color: #f5f8fa; color: #14171a; font-family: system-ui, -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, "Segoe UI", Roboto, Ubuntu, "Helvetica Neue", sans-serif; font-size: 15px; white-space: pre-wrap;">if Abortion ever becomes illegal, i recommend All Mistresses dating Rich Married Political men, to have that baby and get paid -and All teens to get prego no matter what your rich parents say -lets see how long it takes for it to become legal again</span></p>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-31163288994344482552020-09-07T12:29:00.004-07:002020-09-07T12:30:53.436-07:00Randi Rhodes: BEST OF SHOW 9-7-20 - SUBSCRIBE YA BASTIDS!<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/_iz3s3cqHT4" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Randi Rhodes Number-one ranked progressive radio talk show host, political commentator, entertainer, and writer. The Randi Rhodes Show was broadcast nationally on Air America Radio, and Premiere Radio Networks from 2004–2014. Rhodes represents aggressively independent media.
The Miami Herald described her as "a chain-smoking bottle blonde, part Joan Rivers, part shock jock Howard Stern, and part Saturday Night Live’s ‘Coffee Talk’ Lady. But mostly, she's her rude, crude, loud, brazen, gleeful self."
Rhodes and her show won numerous awards for journalism and broadcasting, including Radio Ink’s Most Influential Woman, Radio Ink’s Most Influential Women’s list (multiple years), TALKERS magazine’s Woman of the Year, and the Judy Jarvis Memorial Award for Contributions to the Talk Industry by a Woman.Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-52631114985158364352020-09-07T12:04:00.005-07:002020-09-07T12:07:04.024-07:00Everyone knows Louis Dejoy is guilty of high crimes. Pass it on.<blockquote class="twitter-tweet"><p lang="en" dir="ltr">Everyone knows Louis Dejoy is guilty of high crimes. Pass it on. <a href="https://t.co/OOhJNOSnit">pic.twitter.com/OOhJNOSnit</a></p>— Really American 🇺🇸 (@ReallyAmerican1) <a href="https://twitter.com/ReallyAmerican1/status/1303043567519236096?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 7, 2020</a></blockquote> <script async src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js" charset="utf-8"></script>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-11485629043113927372020-09-04T09:48:00.001-07:002020-09-04T09:48:05.775-07:00So, if "blue lives matter," why does Trump not call out right-wing extremists like boogaloo, white nationalists, and armed militias undertaking vigilante justice?<p> <span style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;">So, if "blue lives matter," why does Trump not call out right-wing extremists like boogaloo, white nationalists, and armed militias undertaking vigilante justice?</span></p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;">Air Force Sgt Steven Carrillo used anti-police-brutality peaceful protests as a cover for his own right-wing anti-government criminal activity ... with deadly consequences for law-enforcement officers. From the LA Times:</p><p style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; margin: 6px 0px;">"Carrillo is accused of spraying bullets across a guard shack May 29 in front of a federal court<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">house in Oakland, killing 53-year-old David Patrick Underwood and wounding another official.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="background-color: white; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 6px;">"A week after the shooting in Oakland, Carrillo allegedly ambushed sheriff’s deputies in Santa Cruz County who were responding to a report of a van containing firearms and bomb-making materials. Sgt. Damon Gutzwiller, 38, was killed and several other law enforcement officials were wounded, according to authorities and court records."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">The Trump administration, DOJ, and Congress have been repeatedly warned by homeland security specialists that the greatest threat to US national security comes from domestic terrorism, particularly from white nationalist groups. But now Trump fans the flames and gives his "blessing" and support to such groups, while ignoring the racial injustices that people of color continue to face, and against which there is rising national outrage.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Trump is not a "Law and Order" President; he is a "Chaos and Disorder" President. And apparently there is nothing he won't do to cheat his way into another four years in office.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;">Each of us has to vote like our life depends on it. Because it does.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 6px 0px;"><br /></p><h5 class="_7tae _14f3 _14f5 _5pbw _5vra" data-ft="{"tn":"C"}" id="js_o" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: normal; line-height: 1.38; margin: 0px 0px 2px; padding: 0px 22px 0px 0px;"><span class="fwn fcg" style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit;"><span class="fwb fcg" data-ft="{"tn":";"}" style="font-family: inherit; font-weight: 600;"><a aria-describedby="u_1i_1" aria-owns="js_1i" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard-referer="ARR1bxRbpp1y2lt_-UHK_DaFXk18EEVy6xDYEAqz0j10rcyMV1DsgcLtWQJGTHHyHLg" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=616753667&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdC-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARC1IZoPW_v_Ou07FM3LS_9lgLgRBj_B6sGH-tVn_VgGBftrTzFLI26o2BypOdMbjd1qQCo6QkT64IY8%22%2C%22hc_ref%22%3A%22ARR1bxRbpp1y2lt_-UHK_DaFXk18EEVy6xDYEAqz0j10rcyMV1DsgcLtWQJGTHHyHLg%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/tutzauerc?__tn__=%2CdC-R-R&eid=ARC1IZoPW_v_Ou07FM3LS_9lgLgRBj_B6sGH-tVn_VgGBftrTzFLI26o2BypOdMbjd1qQCo6QkT64IY8&hc_ref=ARR1bxRbpp1y2lt_-UHK_DaFXk18EEVy6xDYEAqz0j10rcyMV1DsgcLtWQJGTHHyHLg&fref=nf" id="js_1j" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit;">Carol Tutzauer</a></span></span></h5><div><span class="fwn fcg" style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit;"><br /></span></div><div><span class="fwn fcg" style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit;"><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/politics/trump-homeland-security-extremism.html?fbclid=IwAR0c-48TnEEf_vj8ij8vFNeDNQlCHueDkR0gbTwZCHegtUCLkumCjLZ7pQU">https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/us/politics/trump-homeland-security-extremism.html?fbclid=IwAR0c-48TnEEf_vj8ij8vFNeDNQlCHueDkR0gbTwZCHegtUCLkumCjLZ7pQU</a></span></div></div>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-44869522543728227792020-09-04T09:43:00.003-07:002020-09-04T09:43:53.346-07:00This lovely Seaside small business is now caught in the crossfire. Shameful.<p> <a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard-referer="ARQ0LOwvJRh2X8lFFtxuw_8dVaHzKBuoQFO4rS9Opn6tl3zryPC7XacMkPMX-UGpOnY" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/page.php?id=396757797029278&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdkCH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARCwOZ3obVacGfJn0u7FLaUND_GmCAtGlrJpO_XodIkRu4L5Y9eN4q1oBoNVTkpm9_OMWpE9GJECZLC6%22%2C%22hc_ref%22%3A%22ARQ0LOwvJRh2X8lFFtxuw_8dVaHzKBuoQFO4rS9Opn6tl3zryPC7XacMkPMX-UGpOnY%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/SeasideBrewingCompany/?__tn__=kCH-R&eid=ARCwOZ3obVacGfJn0u7FLaUND_GmCAtGlrJpO_XodIkRu4L5Y9eN4q1oBoNVTkpm9_OMWpE9GJECZLC6&hc_ref=ARQ0LOwvJRh2X8lFFtxuw_8dVaHzKBuoQFO4rS9Opn6tl3zryPC7XacMkPMX-UGpOnY&fref=nf&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARC5WSRBAjpQ1nHl1knZLNegalQ3atC8Re3lOeczrK30R8w_DIuHjSOJUJkM1AUAtjlL6DrXOzrkrBvfJuCxRZ3uXkT19G2I96DCE4yzma2nCVWBIb02Yrabaa39B0HeIhykUYSCaZOKJAOc1xe1PUk30vv1q6qoypuT-rtroY151K3IcT6530oyoPVnzUCnKdvnUx8uvZ1gMzFGL1PJg8qj5beYFMwl0Oygg1vZQvHXkXK8Bif6tTBugJP63WUsgmGnBEUEXsifIKqqVp81T_QuSq1dShAMwC3WwLOW0UZFd_nKXTvcw165vfQ7bHfUHhgi4J6JnuHrSKk" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;">Seaside Brewing Company</a></p><div class="clearfix" style="color: #1c1e21; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; zoom: 1;"><div class="plm _42ef" style="font-family: inherit; overflow: hidden; padding-left: 10px;"><div class="_5pcp _5lel _2jyu _232_" data-testid="story-subtitle" id="feed_subtitle_3377595582278803:4:0" style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="y_1fo1e0oit_" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #90949c; font-family: inherit;"><a class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/SeasideBrewingCompany/posts/3377595582278803?__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARC5WSRBAjpQ1nHl1knZLNegalQ3atC8Re3lOeczrK30R8w_DIuHjSOJUJkM1AUAtjlL6DrXOzrkrBvfJuCxRZ3uXkT19G2I96DCE4yzma2nCVWBIb02Yrabaa39B0HeIhykUYSCaZOKJAOc1xe1PUk30vv1q6qoypuT-rtroY151K3IcT6530oyoPVnzUCnKdvnUx8uvZ1gMzFGL1PJg8qj5beYFMwl0Oygg1vZQvHXkXK8Bif6tTBugJP63WUsgmGnBEUEXsifIKqqVp81T_QuSq1dShAMwC3WwLOW0UZFd_nKXTvcw165vfQ7bHfUHhgi4J6JnuHrSKk&__tn__=H-R" style="color: #616770; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="">3d</a></span></span><span aria-hidden="true" class="_6spk" role="presentation" style="font-family: inherit;"> · </span><a aria-label="Public" class="uiStreamPrivacy inlineBlock fbStreamPrivacy fbPrivacyAudienceIndicator _5pcq" data-hover="tooltip" data-tooltip-content="Public" href="https://www.facebook.com/tutzauerc?__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARAzQ3aAteHTT-9TojK57uzMrQaL3mZw9kfzcdG26gJ1u7onLpiy-7HTRMFRnZZ11sCB-Gr6PqExl_6L&hc_ref=ARQb0goBSQlhiRsWskSoKNMHH5r9iTxin8WRI-8G92MjtIsWnmyj0b-9OlrrlUG7pkA&fref=nf#" role="img" style="color: #616770; cursor: pointer; display: inline-block; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none; vertical-align: middle; zoom: 1;"><i class="lock img sp_q3pKx97QyDt_1_5x sx_d23b17" style="background-image: url("/rsrc.php/v3/yw/r/FrjSO7gprb4.png"); background-position: -42px -692px; background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: 64px 762px; bottom: -1px; display: inline-block; forced-color-adjust: none; height: 12px; margin-bottom: -5px; position: relative; vertical-align: top; width: 12px;"></i></a></div></div></div><div class="mtm _5pco" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-testid="post_message" style="color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5f526e6ddf76b3074078376" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">AN OPEN LETTER TO THE CRAFT BEER COMMUNITY, THE TOWN OF SEASIDE, THE STATE OF OREGON, AND TO AMERICA.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">On August 8th a group of armed men and women staged a rall<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">y in Seaside, Oregon, directly across from our brewery and brewpub. This rally was political in nature, and many of the participants of this rally were openly carrying loaded AR-15 style assault weapons, sidearms, bats, swords, knives, etc. There was no counter rally or protest at this location. As the rally continued and the honking and noise and activity increased, many families became concerned for their safety and began leaving the area we had created outside in our parking lot, designed to provide a safer environment for people to eat outside with their families during a difficult pandemic summer at the coast. Many of these families remarked they would not be returning again to Seaside because of the assault rifles they were seeing paraded up and down the street. One of these men with an assault rifle in front of our brewery was actually arrested for shooting at protesters in Portland just days later.<br />As a result of these events, we felt deep concern for the safety of our staff and customers, and at the next city council meeting we voiced those concerns. We did not take a political stance. We believe everyone can believe what they will, and that includes us. We did however, take a stand that we do not think marching through the streets of a small family friendly coastal town with loaded assault rifles is a good idea. It is in fact, an awful idea. Families were terrified, and left. It was proposed by us, that we as a community begin a conversation to figure out how to prevent armed groups from marching in our streets with loaded assault weapons. We asked that the council help us find a way to keep our community safe, our police force and first responders safe, and that we do something quickly to keep the reputation of our small coastal town intact so that families could feel safe when they come here as well.<br />The next day the local paper wrote an article, detailing parts of that discussion at the council meeting, and almost immediately, the phone and internet threats began pouring in from this group and its supporters. An event was posted by this particular group from the rally threatening us and called for an open carry rally to take place at our brewery this upcoming Sunday in an obvious effort to intimidate, terrorize, and punish the brewery for speaking up for our community's safety and exercising our 1st Amendment rights to free speech. We now are forced to take to the internet and make sure people understand that WE ARE NOT HOSTING THIS EVENT. We contacted Facebook and reported that the event was not ours, but they responded by saying that though they regret that we may have been offended by this event listing us as the location for their rally, it didn't meet their standards for removal. Our response to Facebook will be coming later and it won't be pretty. We did not ask for these groups to come to our brewery or to target us. We didn't target them at the council meeting. We simply asked for help from the city council to help resolve what was CLEARLY becoming a serious problem in our community, namely loaded assault rifles around children and families.<br />So just in case anybody out there is confused what we are about, let us be clear. We are a community based business. We are an inclusive business. We love all our employees regardless of their race, sexual orientation, gender, or political affiliation. We are NOT ok with racism in any form. We do NOT promote or accept fascism in any form. We ARE conscientious allies of any conversation furthering any productive discussions surrounding racial equality, and reform of any system that does not provide that for every single person in our community. We do not know, or belong to, or speak for any Antifa group. We do not know, belong to, or speak for BLM. We are not gun rights advocates OR opponents of the 2nd amendment. However, we do NOT appreciate nor will we accept, or remain silent, or be intimidated or terrorized by groups with guns or other weapons in our community. We reject any characterizations to the contrary these groups may try to paint us with.<br />We brew beer, we smoke BBQ, we promote our amazing community, we love the beach, and we are excellent to each other. We don't know what this rally will look like on Sunday. We ask that everyone do everything they can to stay safe, and to avoid any confrontation with these groups who are clearly looking for a fight. We refuse to buy into the anger. As Americans, we have always had a rich history of spirited debate and dialogue with each other. It's part of who we are. We should be able to yell at each other, stand across the street and shout, get nose to nose, hug it out, argue with each other some more, and find a way to love each other at the end of it all, without making each other fear for our lives or safety. None of those things are possible when loaded assault rifles and other weapons are involved in that exchange. An exchange that helps define what we need to do to move the ball forward as a community, and helps strengthen and support the foundations of our democracy through conversation, and subsequently, understanding of each other. Let's keep the dialogue going. Let's leave the guns at home. Let's not hurt each other. And let's remember that community is all we have, and remember that the definition of community means ALL of us. All we want is for us to have a safe place where good people can gather and have a pint of really good beer and good food and be able to connect with each other. That's it. That is all. If you can get down with that, we can provide the space. If you can't, pick somewhere else to go, and let us drink our beer in peace.<br />Everybody take a breath. Everybody remember that we all need each other, especially right now at this point in our history as a nation, and that we all want the same thing... Safety and opportunity for our families, our friends, and ourselves. Don't let them divide us. Put the guns down. Grab a beer. Let's talk.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Cheers~<br />Jimmy Griffin<br />Seaside Brewery</p></div></div></div>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-60817107418361884412020-09-04T09:30:00.003-07:002020-09-04T09:31:23.311-07:0017yr old kids - similar stories, different outcome - WHY? READ ON...... <p> <img alt="Image may contain: one or more people and people standing" height="346" src="https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/118675676_10157754981388668_1009727843539171933_n.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=a_3-U1ANhKkAX8CHHI4&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&oh=ab768ba542b4b17709203f2e0077349a&oe=5F76633E" width="614" /></p><p><br /></p><p><a data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard-referer="ARTLuB0XTKVf8eTyQ8JabW7TUneVeFL4BMY7xxFd7noyMcUlQlgfvh-nrcxrRVuMUbQ" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=616753667&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdCH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARA6wN47mgH1y2DBWqainCGQI4P_q3OTpDWL-atv1NwL2v6xFAqPv0pcwBTC7lQPWnLEISs-sUZN5FLZ%22%2C%22hc_ref%22%3A%22ARTLuB0XTKVf8eTyQ8JabW7TUneVeFL4BMY7xxFd7noyMcUlQlgfvh-nrcxrRVuMUbQ%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/tutzauerc?__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARA6wN47mgH1y2DBWqainCGQI4P_q3OTpDWL-atv1NwL2v6xFAqPv0pcwBTC7lQPWnLEISs-sUZN5FLZ&hc_ref=ARTLuB0XTKVf8eTyQ8JabW7TUneVeFL4BMY7xxFd7noyMcUlQlgfvh-nrcxrRVuMUbQ&fref=nf" style="background-color: white; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;">Carol Tutzauer</a></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="_5pcp _5lel _2jyu _232_" data-testid="story-subtitle" id="feed_subtitle_10157754981568668:5:0" style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="y_1fo1e0oit_" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #90949c; font-family: inherit;"><a ajaxify="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157754981378668&set=a.10150967565293668&type=3&size=960%2C540&source=12&player_origin=unknown" class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10157754981378668&set=a.10150967565293668&type=3" rel="theater" style="color: #616770; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="">5d</a></span></span></div></div><div class="mtm _5pco" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-testid="post_message" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5f526950978607781090111" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">UPDATE: Author identified (Ryan Douglas). Thanks, Ryan, for the great words. Original link provided at end of this post.<br />***</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px;">“Y’all called Trayvon Martin a crim<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">inal and said he shouldn’t have fought back. Y’all said he shouldn’t have been out that late...in his parent’s fucking neighborhood. Y’all called him a thug.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all said Tamir Rice shouldn’t have been playing with a toy gun. Y’all said he shouldn’t have been at the park alone...forgetting that MOST of OUR childhoods were spent playing in various places without adult supervision.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all said Ahmaud Arbery shouldn’t have been in that neighborhood, shouldn’t have been in the construction site. Y’all said he should have complied with the men who literally ran him down like a dog and murdered him in the street.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all said Breonna Taylor shouldn’t have known the man that police were looking for, the same man they already had. Y’all said her boyfriend shouldn’t have fired shots after their door was busted down in the middle of the night with no indication who was coming into their house.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all said Amber Guyger was justifiably scared when she went into the wrong apartment and murdered Botham Jean.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all said George Floyd deserved to die for past crimes that he already served his sentences for.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all said Philando Castile shouldn’t have had the gun that he legally purchased, carried, and informed the officer of when that officer told him to reach for his ID and then murdered him.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">When the Central Park 5 maintained their innocence, y’all said they were obviously guilty. When the man who would become the President demanded they remain in jail AFTER they were exonerated, y’all applauded him.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Every time a black man, woman, or child dies at the hand of some bitch trigger happy cop or some asshole piece of shit white person, y’all will extrapolate, insinuate, and justify as much as you can why that person should be dead. Y’all will place the blame on the victim and exonerate the murderer.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">But when a 17 year old kid crosses state lines with a weapon he is not legal to possess, intentionally places himself within the protest, shoots someone, runs away, and then shoots two more people who attempted to subdue him for shooting the first person, then walks calmly right by police, and goes back home to another state after taking someone’s life, y’all call him a hero. Y’all say he did nothing wrong. Y’all say it was self defense. Even though HE illegally crossed state lines with a weapon, even though HE intentionally went looking for trouble, even though HE fully intended to pull the trigger, y’all are willing to defend him.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Y’all never said he should have complied with the people chasing him, like you said about Ahmaud Arbery. Y’all never said he shouldn’t have been there, like you did about Tamir Rice and Trayvon Martin. Y’all never said he shouldn’t have had a gun, like you did about Philando Castile.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">This is why we say Black Lives Matter. This is why we take to the street and demand accountability. We never said other lives didn’t also matter. We said our lives don’t matter to you. Because they don’t. Y’all prove that every day. Y’all reinforce it every time you defend a murderer. Y’all make it widely known that when the black life is lost, they somehow deserved it. Y’all are quick to invoke abortion, but you don’t even care about the black lives that are already here, standing right next to you, let alone the ones yet to be born into a society that applauds the murder of black lives.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">All my life, I have had to watch black men and women be profiled, harassed, beaten, unjustly arrested/incarcerated, and murdered, much of it on live tv. I have had to listen to/see white people all around me justify the continuous murder of black lives at the hand of callous and cowardly white people, police and civilian alike. I have had to restrain myself when I’m told that we should just comply, because y’all refuse to see and understand that whether we are innocent or guilty, whether we comply or not, our lives are forfeit and we are condemned.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Our blackness is an automatic target from the day we are born. And yet we are regularly told how much America has changed. We are regularly told how racism isn’t that big a problem...while actively being subjected to it. We are regularly told, by people who have never experienced it, who have never been subjected to it, who have never had to fight against it, that it isn’t real. And then we are told to trust and respect the same people who display it against us.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">We are supposed to be presumed innocent until proven guilty. We are supposed to have the right to due process. But the repeated murders of unarmed black lives by police and the subsequent justification in the court of public opinion proves that we are not privy to those rights. Kyle Rittenhouse will live to see his trial. He will be protected. He will get adequate legal defense for the crimes he stands accused of. Eric Garner didn’t. George Floyd didn’t. Philando Castile didn’t. Sandra bland didn’t. So many others didn’t. Too many others didn’t. Many more wont.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">If you have never had to discuss with the mother of your mixed child how sadly glad you are that your son has more of her physical features than your own, so that he will not have that target on his back in this society, then you have zero room to speak to me on racial issues.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I do not say this for debate. I will not debate it. I will not answer any ignorant ass questions demanding an explanation of my words or experiences. They are clear enough and if you cannot understand them, then you are part of the problem. I will not expend what little energy I have left repeatedly explaining the same things over and over again to people who only seek to discredit black lives.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">We fought a whole civil war and had a whole civil rights movement and the sad fact of the matter is that this country is the same as it ever was. It just hides its true face better.”</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Original post link:</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px;"><a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/11901542/posts/10101147233980820/?extid=l9Bxdm7cxeYQESxB&d=n" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;">https://www.facebook.com/11901542/posts/10101147233980820/…</a></p></div></div></div>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-49257646509925264952020-08-30T09:23:00.002-07:002020-08-30T09:23:44.972-07:00“This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police.<p><img alt="Image may contain: 1 person, standing, beard, shoes and indoor" src="https://scontent-sjc3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/p720x720/97586321_10223364610843059_1237857712700653568_o.jpg?_nc_cat=1&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=o-YCs8S3tKUAX-KD3Fx&_nc_ht=scontent-sjc3-1.xx&tp=6&oh=fd6835162478a270759286a95ef7f067&oe=5F72874C" /></p><p> <a aria-describedby="u_33_1" aria-owns="" data-hovercard-prefer-more-content-show="1" data-hovercard-referer="ARS3gKlPrQ9PQgH7gq2TnbdY4iTl89xwJaNKO7ghshNTg81a36mhDL5_AhW1gGMSGIk" data-hovercard="/ajax/hovercard/user.php?id=1219921726&extragetparams=%7B%22__tn__%22%3A%22%2CdCH-R-R%22%2C%22eid%22%3A%22ARBfMG8wamno7LM1Gw7bp-dyE0_5NTVULxWU_tGz6P4nNI9xWz6e38wRVqHX_D33Y2B2t7jv2ZiAhjm9%22%2C%22hc_ref%22%3A%22ARS3gKlPrQ9PQgH7gq2TnbdY4iTl89xwJaNKO7ghshNTg81a36mhDL5_AhW1gGMSGIk%22%2C%22fref%22%3A%22nf%22%7D" href="https://www.facebook.com/JimTrainerCommunicator?__tn__=%2CdCH-R-R&eid=ARBfMG8wamno7LM1Gw7bp-dyE0_5NTVULxWU_tGz6P4nNI9xWz6e38wRVqHX_D33Y2B2t7jv2ZiAhjm9&hc_ref=ARS3gKlPrQ9PQgH7gq2TnbdY4iTl89xwJaNKO7ghshNTg81a36mhDL5_AhW1gGMSGIk&fref=nf" id="js_3o" style="background-color: white; color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; font-size: 12px; font-weight: 600; text-decoration-line: none;">Jim Trainer</a></p><div style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px;"><div class="_5pcp _5lel _2jyu _232_" data-testid="story-subtitle" id="feed_subtitle_10223364624203393:5:0" style="color: #616770; font-family: inherit; position: relative;"><span class="y_1fo1e0oit_" style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="fsm fwn fcg" style="color: #90949c; font-family: inherit;"><a ajaxify="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223364610803058&set=a.2755353402576&type=3&size=750%2C1000&source=12&player_origin=unknown" class="_5pcq" href="https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10223364610803058&set=a.2755353402576&type=3" rel="theater" style="color: #616770; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="">May 17</a></span></span></div></div><div class="mtm _5pco" data-ft="{"tn":"K"}" data-testid="post_message" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; margin-top: 10px;"><div class="text_exposed_root text_exposed" id="id_5f4bcf9aec3615783777842" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">“This is what I wore to work today. On my way to get a burrito before work, I was detained by the police.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px;">I noticed the police car in the public lot behind Cent<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;">re Street. As I was walking away from my car, the cruiser followed me. I walked down Centre Street and was about to cross over to the burrito place and the officer got out of the car.</span></p><div class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Hey my man," he said.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">He unsnapped the holster of his gun.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I took my hands out of my pockets.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Yes?" I said.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Where you coming from?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Home."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Where's home?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Dedham."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">How'd you get here?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I drove."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">He was next to me now. Two other police cars pulled up. I was standing in from of the bank across the street from the burrito place. I was going to get lunch before I taught my 1:30 class. There were cops all around me.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I said nothing. I looked at the officer who addressed me. He was white, stocky, bearded.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"You weren't over there, were you?" He pointed down Centre Street toward Hyde Square.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"No. I came from Dedham."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"What's your address?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I told him.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"We had someone matching your description just try to break into a woman's house."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">A second police officer stood next to me; white, tall, bearded. Two police cruisers passed and would continue to circle the block for the 35 minutes I was standing across the street from the burrito place.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"You fit the description," the officer said. "Black male, knit hat, puffy coat. Do you have identification."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"It's in my wallet. May I reach into my pocket and get my wallet?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Yeah."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I handed him my license. I told him it did not have my current address. He walked over to a police car. The other cop, taller, wearing sunglasses, told me that I fit the description of someone who broke into a woman's house. Right down to the knit cap.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Barbara Sullivan made a knit cap for me. She knitted it in pinks and browns and blues and oranges and lime green. No one has a hat like this. It doesn't fit any description that anyone would have. I looked at the second cop. I clasped my hands in front of me to stop them from shaking.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"For the record," I said to the second cop, "I'm not a criminal. I'm a college professor." I was wearing my faculty ID around my neck, clearly visible with my photo.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"You fit the description so we just have to check it out." The first cop returned and handed me my license.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"We have the victim and we need her to take a look at you to see if you are the person."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">It was at this moment that I knew that I was probably going to die. I am not being dramatic when I say this. I was not going to get into a police car. I was not going to present myself to some victim. I was not going let someone tell the cops that I was not guilty when I already told them that I had nothing to do with any robbery. I was not going to let them take me anywhere because if they did, the chance I was going to be accused of something I did not do rose exponentially. I knew this in my heart. I was not going anywhere with these cops and I was not going to let some white woman decide whether or not I was a criminal, especially after I told them that I was not a criminal. This meant that I was going to resist arrest. This meant that I was not going to let the police put their hands on me.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">If you are wondering why people don't go with the police, I hope this explains it for you.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Something weird happens when you are on the street being detained by the police. People look at you like you are a criminal. The police are detaining you so clearly you must have done something, otherwise they wouldn't have you. No one made eye contact with me. I was hoping that someone I knew would walk down the street or come out of one of the shops or get off the 39 bus or come out of JP Licks and say to these cops, "That's Steve Locke. What the FUCK are you detaining him for?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">The cops decided that they would bring the victim to come view me on the street. The asked me to wait. I said nothing. I stood still.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Thanks for cooperating," the second cop said. "This is probably nothing, but it's our job and you do fit the description. 5' 11", black male. One-hundred-and-sixty pounds, but you're a little more than that. Knit hat."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">A little more than 160. Thanks for that, I thought.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">An older white woman walked behind me and up to the second cop. She turned and looked at me and then back at him. "You guys sure are busy today."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I noticed a black woman further down the block. She was small and concerned. She was watching what was going on. I focused on her red coat. I slowed my breathing. I looked at her from time to time.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I thought: Don't leave, sister. Please don't leave.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">The first cop said, "Where do you teach?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Massachusetts College of Art and Design." I tugged at the lanyard that had my ID.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"How long you been teaching there?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Thirteen years."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">We stood in silence for about 10 more minutes.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">An unmarked police car pulled up. The first cop went over to talk to the driver. The driver kept looking at me as the cop spoke to him. I looked directly at the driver. He got out of the car.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I'm Detective Cardoza. I appreciate your cooperation."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I said nothing.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I'm sure these officers told you what is going on?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"They did."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Where are you coming from?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"From my home in Dedham."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"How did you get here?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I drove."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Where is your car?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"It's in the lot behind Bukhara." I pointed up Centre Street.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Okay," the detective said. "We're going to let you go. Do you have a car key you can show me?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Yes," I said. "I'm going to reach into my pocket and pull out my car key."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Okay."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I showed him the key to my car.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">The cops thanked me for my cooperation. I nodded and turned to go.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Sorry for screwing up your lunch break," the second cop said.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I walked back toward my car, away from the burrito place. I saw the woman in red.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Thank you," I said to her. "Thank you for staying."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Are you ok?" She said. Her small beautiful face was lined with concern.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Not really. I'm really shook up. And I have to get to work."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I knew something was wrong. I was watching the whole thing. The way they are treating us now, you have to watch them. "</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I'm so grateful you were there. I kept thinking to myself, 'Don't leave, sister.' May I give you a hug?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"Yes," she said. She held me as I shook. "Are you sure you are ok?"</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"No I'm not. I'm going to have a good cry in my car. I have to go teach."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"You're at MassArt. My friend is at MassArt."</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"What's your name?" She told me. I realized we were Facebook friends. I told her this.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">"I'll check in with you on Facebook," she said.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I put my head down and walked to my car.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">My colleague was in our shared office and she was able to calm me down. I had about 45 minutes until my class began and I had to teach. I forgot the lesson I had planned. I forget the schedule. I couldn't think about how to do my job. I thought about the fact my word counted for nothing, they didn't believe that I wasn't a criminal. They had to find out. My word was not enough for them. My ID was not enough for them. My handmade one-of-a-kind knit hat was an object of suspicion. My Ralph Lauren quilted blazer was only a "puffy coat." That white woman could just walk up to a cop and talk about me like I was an object for regard. I wanted to go back and spit in their faces. The cops were probably deeply satisfied with how they handled the interaction, how they didn't escalate the situation, how they were respectful and polite.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I imagined sitting in the back of a police car while a white woman decides if I am a criminal or not. If I looked guilty being detained by the cops imagine how vile I become sitting in a cruiser? I knew I could not let that happen to me. I knew if that were to happen, I would be dead.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">Nothing I am, nothing I do, nothing I have means anything because I fit the description.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px;">I had to confess to my students that I was a bit out of it today and I asked them to bear with me. I had to teach.</p><p style="font-family: inherit; margin: 1em 0px 0px;">After class I was supposed to go to the openings for First Friday. I went home.”<br />-Steve Locke<br /><a data-ft="{"tn":"-U"}" data-lynx-mode="asynclazy" data-lynx-uri="https://l.facebook.com/l.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.stevelocke.com%2Fblog%2Fi-fit-the-description%3Ffbclid%3DIwAR0GcX0ZVYMpa2UutXMHDCpIMOWX017LB45Ev1xAUTDNkEOUjlucYubgxKQ&h=AT1rFgV5t08LXb0g861g4U3RbKj8P-XNAJEaMKSVYJZi1YkQt307R1x_jglkYIZ1gv31o_OgOygQ70_hpX-dUmnYJssVFgvhDym9ebuPfPaBDgyi4yP5nRizvY7nNVioAFsZ5d4Pz7XV_Bv8ptgRmetCAmHHfAqQ" href="https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description?fbclid=IwAR0GcX0ZVYMpa2UutXMHDCpIMOWX017LB45Ev1xAUTDNkEOUjlucYubgxKQ" rel="nofollow" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration-line: none;" target="_blank">https://www.stevelocke.com/blog/i-fit-the-description</a></p></div></div></div>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-1077339251074833782020-08-18T19:52:00.002-07:002020-08-18T20:03:41.304-07:00Sheep in Wolfe Clothing - don`t buy the hype!<p> <span face="" style="background-color: white; font-family: "helvetica neue", helvetica, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">Funny to see a fellow fetish producer who i called my friend for over 20years - told him my deepest/darkest/emotional/vulnerable troubles - now he having another tantrum online about his marriages/relationships/career woes - mirroring many of my own that i confided in him with - only for him to become a 'marriage meddler' - be a warrior for my troubled ex - to help my ex battle in divorce court against me - but before that meddle in my marriage and make things worse for me as i was trying hard to salvage my marriage --- this fetish producer who is claiming his honesty --- threatened my life in many way, he even posted violent videos, photos, posts of women being abused stating how sad if this happens to me, etc - threatened my job, by contacting my boss to have me fired - he threatened my home, by contacting my property management to get me kicked out - threatened to get between me and Fetishcon by trying to get me to sell the domain - threatened my youtube and social media by flagging videos and bringing it to the attention of my soon to be ex husbands lawyer - creating MANY online accounts to bash me, bully me, threaten me, intimidate me, smearing my reputation - he recruited his friends to do all of the mentioned to me as well ----- i never warranted or expected this from him, i was blindside - he helped my ex-husband in his attempt to destroy me in all ways possible, physically, mentally, financially, forever ---- ALL IN SEALED DIVORCE DOCUMENTS AS PROOF FOREVER!! - i did NOTHING to him but be his friend and introduce him to my then husband --- he still comes to my door --- he still attempts to hang out with my friends and neighbors --- he makes fun and is very condescending to women and other fetish producers, who he feels are below him - i cry no tears for him -- i see right thru him - he is NOT honest, as he protest he is - he is what he calls others - a victim of himself -- projection - he don`t fool me - no wool over these eyes ever again - a sheep in 'Wolfe' clothing he is! </span></p>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-18706553231160937242020-07-08T18:41:00.001-07:002020-07-08T18:41:12.373-07:00Again, all I ask is that you read it. 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400 years ago Black people were kidnapped and white people forcibly brought them here to enslave them. And sold them. And treated them as less than human. For 250 years. While white men formed the country and created its laws and its systems of government. While 10-15 generations of white families got to grow and flourish and make choices that could make their lives better.<br /> And then 150 years ago white people "freed" black people from slavery. But then angry white people created laws that made it impossible for them to vote. Or to own land. Or to have the same rights as white people. And even erected monuments glorifying people who actively had fought to keep them enslaved. They also lynched thousands of black men and women and were rarely if ever prosecuted/convicted for it even when whole towns witnessed the lynchings. All while another 5, 10 generations of white families got to grow and accumulate wealth and gain land and get an education.</div>
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And then 60 years ago we made it "legal" for black people to vote, and to be "free" from discrimination. But angry white people still fought to keep schools segregated. And closed off neighborhoods to white people only. And made it harder for black people to get bank loans, or get quality education or health care, or to (gasp) marry a white person. And found ways to write and enforce laws that would punish black people more harshly than white people for essentially the same crimes. All while another 2-3 generations of white families got to grow and pass their wealth down to their children and their children's children.</div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Found this out earlier! FULL info on assaulters and negligent cops: This includes the named and badge numbers of the negligent officers !! Someone posted this. I hope it doesn't get lost in all the comments</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">** Ian James Cherco (white hat) **</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">** Jerr</span></span><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; color: #1c1e21; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">y Cox (fat shirtless tattoos) **</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">** Sean Purdy (red shirt) **</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">They all three work at Matthew Masonry and Restoration LLC.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">The business phone number is 317-892-0311. Most of them have taken down their FB pages but it’s much too late for them.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">** Pass it on!! Everyone keep copy and pasting this so they can get what they deserve!!</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Scumbags. The mailbox is full but they open at 8am tomorrow morning.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">*Negligent Officers:</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Kurt Kinser (K2704)</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">Tim Beaver (B9371)</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">File complaints with local, state and INTERNAL AFFAIRS most importantly.</span><br /><span style="font-family: inherit;">***** COPY AND PASTE SO THIS DOESN’T GET LOST IN THE COMMENTS *****</span></span></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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Ok friends, especially white friends, I’m about to lay some hardcore truth on you right now, and many of you are not going to like it (take a breath if you need to and just read... think... don’t just react). Some of you are going to get immediately defensive. But before you comment from an emotional place, I encourage you to stop, re-read this post, do a little bit of research about casual racism and white privilege and then come back and re-read the post again. After that, if you still want to comment, please feel free.<br /> Ok, here we go....</div>
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Many of you are the problem. Yes, you read that right. Many of you are the reason why these riots are happening. Many of you are the reason why it’s come to this. This is especially true if you’ve ever (but especially in the last week) said any of the following;</div>
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1. “It’s awful but...” - No. No buts. In the English language, the word “But” is often used to deflect or to justify behavior. Police murdering black people in the street is awful. Period. End of discussion.</div>
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2. “I support the movement but not these disruptive protests...” - No, you don’t. Right now, the movement is taking the form of disruptive protests. They’re the same thing. You either want police to stop murdering black people in the street, or you don’t. If you do, then support the protests — even if you find them disruptive and frustrating — because that’s black people fighting for their lives.</div>
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3. “All lives/White lives matter too..” - no one said they didn’t. The conversation is specifically about black lives right now because police are murdering them in the street. Until police stop doing that, and White people stop dismissing it, it’s not “All lives matter,” it’s “MOST lives matter.” It’s not “ALL Lives” until Black Lives Matter too. Stay focused.</div>
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4. “There are good cops...” - No one said there weren’t. There are three categories of cops; Good cops, bad cops and complacent cops. Good cops are marching with the protesters. They’re sharing the hashtag <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/blacklivesmatter?source=feed_text&epa=HASHTAG" style="color: #385898; cursor: pointer; font-family: inherit; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: inherit;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: inherit;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: inherit;">BlackLivesMatter</span></span></a>. They’re trying to change the system from within the system. There are many levels of Bad cops. The most obvious one is those officers that are murdering black people in the street. Bad cops are also sharing the hashtags “blue lives matter.” Bad cops are trying to shift the focus. Bad cops don’t stop their colleagues when they murder black people in the streets. Complacent cops just show up, follow orders and try not to take sides. Complacent cops are bad cops.</div>
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5. “I don’t support the looting and destruction...” - no one says you have to, but please stop acting like looting nullifies the entire protest. And definitely stop acting like looting is “just as bad.” That’s like comparing someone stealing your car to someone murdering your child. They’re not equally bad. Stop pretending they are. Police murdering black people in the street is definitely worse than robbing a Target.</div>
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6. “Just because I’m white doesn’t mean my life has been easy...” Of course not. Everyone struggles. But being white has never been one of those struggles. Being poor has been a struggle. Being a woman has been a struggle. Being gay has been a struggle. But being white has never been a struggle. The same can’t be said for people of color. I could go on and on about white privilege, but it would be so much easier if you educated yourself instead. This isn’t about how you have suffered in your life. This is about police murdering black people in the street. Stop trying to make it about you.</div>
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7. “I really wish they would protest peacefully...” - of course you do. They’re easier to ignore that way. People of color have been peacefully protesting for hundreds of years. It hasn’t been all that successful. The reason riots and violent demonstrations work is because it makes people — especially white people — uncomfortable. We can’t ignore them when they’re waving torches in our faces. It scares us. It puts us on edge, which is precisely where we need to be. People only pay attention to the extreme. If you have trouble recalling a single one of the hundreds of peaceful protests that BLM held across North America last year, but you can still recall, with crystal clarity, the 1992 Los Angeles riots, then you’ve just proved my point.</div>
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8. “I don’t see color...” — Congratulations, you’re lying to yourself. Of course, you see color. And that’s good! Black people want you to see their color. Their colors are beautiful and the very foundation of who they are. If you don’t see their color, then you also don’t see their culture. If you don’t see color, then you erase their very identity. If you don’t see their color, then you also can’t see the pattern of violence they’re confronted with every day. If you don’t see color, then you’re blind to more than just racial injustice. You’re blind to the world.</div>
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9. “They shouldn’t have committed a crime...” - This one is a big one for me. Consider me triggered. A boy who steals a can of pop from a 7-11 does not deserve to be shot in the back three times. A man illegally selling CD’s on a street corner doesn’t deserve to be shot to death in front of a record store. A man who runs a red light does not deserve to be shot while reaching for his registration. This isn’t about their crimes; this is about bad policing. Stay on topic.</div>
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10. “Black people kill white people too...” yes, murderers exist in every race and walk of life. But that’s not what we’re talking about. We’re talking police brutality, and the reality is, black officers are not murdering unarmed white men in the street. That seems to be almost exclusively white officer behavior. Stop gaslighting.</div>
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11. “Black people kill other black people...” - Yes, they do, just like white people kill other white people and Latinos kill other latinos etc. Crime related violence does not adhere to any imaginary racial boundaries or allegiances. But, we’re not talking about criminal violence right now. We’re not discussing drug violence or gang violence or sexual violence or domestic violence or bar brawls or whatever random type of violence you’d like to bring up. The conversation is specifically about POLICE BRUTALITY. Say it with me. Police. Brutality. Any other form of violence you bring up is entirely irrelevant. Please stay on topic.</div>
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12. “I support black people, but I can’t support the violence...” — In other words, you would prefer people of color continue to be murdered by police, rather than have them rise up violently against their oppressors. Got it. That’s not support.</div>
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13. “It’s not about race. We are all human beings...” yes, except people of color often aren’t treated like human beings. For instance, they’re being murdered in the streets like animals. On video. While people watch. While people do nothing.</div>
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14. “The looting and arson distract from their message. It’s their fault for not controlling it...” If you’d like to lay blame, how about we start by blaming the police who frequently murder unarmed people of color. If they didn’t frequently murder unarmed people of color, the protest wouldn’t be necessary. The protest wouldn’t have turned into a riot, the riot wouldn’t have turned violent, and looting wouldn’t have happened. Blaming the oppressed for not better “controlling” their social unrest is asinine.</div>
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15. “More white people are killed by cops than black people. Here are the statistics....” - I love when people do research! Thank you for that! But those stats that you’re proudly flashing around aren’t an accurate reflection of the issue. According to data, there are approx. 234,370,202 white people In the United States. Comparatively, that same data states that there are 40,610,815 “Black” Americans. So, when your stats show 1,398 white people have been killed by officers since 2017 and only 543 Black people, what those statistics really show is .0005% of white people were killed by police in those 3.5 years, while .0011% of black people were killed by police. That means black people were killed at a higher rate. 220% higher, to be exact.Math has no racial bias. Those aren’t great stats. Stop using them to defend your position.</div>
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16. “Black people commit more crime...” - Do they really, though? According to data released in 2017, there were 475,900 black prisoners in state and federal prisons and 436,500 white prisoners. That’s a difference of about 9%. So for argument's sake, let’s say those numbers are an accurate reflection of the amount of crime committed. If people of color commit only 9% more crime, why are they killed by police at a rate of 220% higher?</div>
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17. “Well, the same stats you mentioned shows that even though they’re only 12% of the population, they commit 54% of the crime.” - Good Catch! You’re right. But those numbers don’t actually reflect the amount of crime committed. That’s why I said to assume they’re correct. Those numbers only reveal how many people are incarcerated. The reality is, while those numbers are all we have to go on, they don’t tell the complete story either. In the United States specifically, socioeconomic racism, which was designed to keep POC in poverty through district redlining, lower quality of education and other systemic obstacles, is a huge component.Thanks to redlining (look it up) and other zoning and banking practices, the quality of education in “black” neighborhoods are significantly lower, which means the average income for POC in those neighbors is lower and the unemployment much higher. Also, thanks to redlining, the unemployment rate, and lower-income rates, crime in those neighborhoods tends to be higher. That means those neighborhoods are patrolled by police more often. Thanks to racial bias, POC are followed, stopped, harassed and arrested more frequently than the white people who live in those same neighborhoods. What all of this means is that, when POC are arrested more frequently, they often can’t afford fancy lawyers to help them. They usually end up with Public Defenders, who are often overworked, and they often encourage POC to plead guilty in exchange for less time. Then there’s the fact that, because white people make up 73% of the population, they also tend to make up a bigger percentage of jurors. There’s lots of factors to consider. So don’t assume that just because they make up 54% of the people in jail, that they make up 54% of the crime. The entire system is broken. That’s part of the problem.</div>
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18. “You’re promoting violence and destruction, shame on you...”. - I don’t remember encouraging anyone to riot. I also don’t remember encouraging anyone to loot or commit arson. The truth is, looting and arson is certainly not my preferred form of protest. But it’s important to remember that protesters haven’t committed most of the violent behavior. Civil unrest tends to cause chaos and confusion. That chaos provides the perfect opportunity for poor-intentioned people to do poor-intentioned things. That doesn’t mean the civil unrest should stop. I don’t condone the violence. I just don’t think it should dominate the conversation. If you want to focus on the violence, try focusing on those officers who’ve killed POC in the street. You’re focusing on the wrong violence.</div>
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If any of you are guilty of saying any of the above, then I have unsettling news for you. YOU are the reason it’s come to this.<br /> YOU are the reason peaceful protests haven’t worked.<br /> They haven’t worked because YOU haven’t been listening.<br /> YOU haven’t been learning.<br /> These violent riots are happening because YOU have left people of color no other choice.<br /> These riots are happening because no matter how people of color have said it - taking a knee, marching the streets, bumper stickers, banners, signs, or chants, YOU still don’t get it.<br /> That doesn’t mean you’re a bad person.<br /> That doesn’t mean you’re racist. It only means you’re white. And that’s not a crime, any more than being black is.<br /> The difference is, police aren’t going to shoot you in the street for it.</div>
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my life is a HAPPY "Shangri-La"</div>
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Now that you've found your paradise<br /> This is your Kingdom to command<br /> You can go outside and polish your car<span class="text_exposed_show" style="display: inline; font-family: inherit;"><br /> Or sit by the fire in your Shangri-la<br /> Here is your reward for working so hard<br /> Gone are the lavatories in the back yard<br /> Gone are the days when you dreamed of that car<br /> You just want to sit in your Shangri-la</span></div>
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Put on your slippers and sit by the fire<br /> You've reached your top and you just can't get any higher<br /> You're in your place and you know where you are<br /> In your Shangri-la<br /> Sit back in your old rocking chair<br /> You need not worry, you need not care<br /> You can't go anywhere<br /> Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la</div>
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The little man who gets the train<br /> Got a mortgage hanging over his head<br /> But he's too scared to complain<br /> 'Cos he's conditioned that way<br /> Time goes by and he pays off his debts<br /> Got a TV set and a radio<br /> For seven shillings a week<br /> Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la</div>
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And all the houses in the street have got a name<br /> 'Cos all the houses in the street they look the same<br /> Same chimney pots, same little cars, same window panes<br /> The neighbors call to tell you things that you should know<br /> They say their lines, they drink their tea, and then they go<br /> They tell your business in another Shangri-la<br /> The gas bills and the water rates, and payments on the car<br /> Too scared to think about how insecure you are<br /> Life ain't so happy in your little Shangri-la<br /> Shangri-la, Shangri-la la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la</div>
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Put on your slippers and sit by the fire<br /> You've reached your top and you just can't get any higher<br /> You're in your place and you know where you are<br /> In your Shangri-la<br /> Sit back in your old rocking chair<br /> You need not worry, you need not care<br /> You can't go anywhere<br /> Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la, Shangri-la</div>
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<iframe allow="accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture" allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/CJB9GP5gyAw" width="560"></iframe>Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-69109075988976759622018-10-28T10:45:00.003-07:002018-10-28T10:45:49.570-07:00Comments about: LBPD Backs 'Somali Pirates' in Business Hijackings <span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For those who want to know the true reasons that led to the closing of ACAPULCO INN, here's the first part of the story! I back everything that was said by Trac</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">y Alcantar! Do not forget these names: GENE ROTONDO who used to own Legends, JEROME CHIARO owner of The Annex, TIM MORIARTY the wannabe bookie, and lastly, probably one of the worst human beings I've ever met in my life, JIMMY DUBOIS WEISER who owns both Brien O'Connors on Paramount blvd and THIRSTY ISLE on Carson and Lakewood. These guys are all WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING (except Jimmy Weiser, the whole world knows he's grimy). I'll post the second article too... Some of ya'll might know them and find what im saying either inappropriate and/or inaccurate. Hear me out.... I was the Manager of Acapulco Inn with Stevan H. during the most turbulent of times, until it officially closed this year on April 5th. I was present in court during the cross-examinations. I was there when Jerome Chiaro, John Austin, and Jimmy Weiser showed up and drilled through the deadbolt on the front door, not knowing that Hawaiian Bob and I had slept there because we anticipated these CRIMINALS trying to break back in.... Hell, I held Jimmy's short ass at the door while Bob called the cops.... all while John Austin was recording directly in front of me and Jerome Chiaro was across the street recording, hoping to get me on video laying hands on Jimmy (Yes Jerome, I Saw you) Funny thing about that situation, I actually have JIMMY hitting ME on camera!.... He lied to the Police about Tracy choking him, broke into A.I. like the criminal he is while the LBPD did absolutely nothing, and consistently used false paperwork to carry out his lil 'hostile takeovers' that the LBPD would enforce, WITHOUT A COURT ORDER .... Smh. 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<a href="https://beachcomber.news/content/lbpd-backs-somali-pirates-business-hijackings" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #53a8d0; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part One</a> of this story was published In the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber’s </em>Oct. 12 edition (available on-line) as told by Tracy Alcantar, 60, an owner/operator of the Acapulco Inn (AI), and confirmed by Aristides Gascon (aka Hawaiian Bob), his business partner, LBPD documents and video evidence that revealed an Aug. 25, 2016 early morning break in of the AI premises when Jimmy Weiser drilled the dead bolt lock on the front door and entered with his associates, Jerome Chiaro and Eugene Rotondo, the trio that Alcantar and his attorney refer to as: “The Somali Pirates.”</div>
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Evidence established that the LBPD enabled the “pirates” to take over the business without a court order.</div>
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Following publication of <a href="https://beachcomber.news/content/lbpd-backs-somali-pirates-business-hijackings" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #53a8d0; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part One</a> the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> interviewed Weiser, who denied drilling the dead bolt lock that day. He said, “That was another time.” Weiser alleged that Alcantar “took that video and other incidents and rearranged them to fit the story he wanted to tell.”</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber’s</em> review of the unedited video and LBPD police logs dispute Weiser’s denial.</div>
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Weiser acknowledged that they did not have a court order but argued that the legal papers they had established their ownership. (More on the legal papers later).</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> asked Gene Rotondo if he or any of his companions had a court order to seize the business. Rotondo said, “I have no comment. I am not going to discuss any of that.”</div>
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Alcantar said after he was forced out by the LBPD he obtained a court order the next day, Aug. 26, took the business back and later asked Sgt. Kosoy (the sergeant who sanctioned the takeover) to view the 8-camera (unedited) security video that proved the break in, all activity that followed and ultimately “new management” selling AI inventory until closing time that night.</div>
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After viewing the video Sgt. Kosoy refused to take a crime report, stating again that it was a civil matter.</div>
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Alcantar told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> that both Weiser and Chiaro own bars in East Division, “that are watering holes for East Division cops.” He speculated that, “it had a lot to do with the cops siding with the Pirates.” He said, “Both Weiser and Chiaro have POA (Police Officers Association) plaques hanging in their bars.”</div>
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Weiser did not deny that LBPD officers frequent his bar but said that there is no POA plaque on the wall. He said the responding officers were rude to him, offering this as evidence that he received no special treatment.</div>
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Following publication of <a href="https://beachcomber.news/content/lbpd-backs-somali-pirates-business-hijackings" style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(83, 168, 208); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; color: #53a8d0; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Part One</a> the<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Beachcomber </em>was contacted by a veteran, currently employed, LBPD officer. The officer – who spoke on condition of anonymity fearing retaliation – said that they had serious doubts that Weiser’s bar being a police watering hole had anything to do with what they said was, “a bad decision made by Sgt. Kosoy to allow a third party to take over any business without a court order or to refuse to take a crime report.” The police veteran said, “Incompetence and poor training likely led to the flawed decision.”</div>
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Part Two of this two-part story begins 13 months later on Sunday, Sept. 24, 2017 at around 9:45 a.m.</div>
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According to Alcantar he and his partner, Aristides Gascon, 43 (aka Hawaiian Bob) were in the process of getting the Acapulco Inn (AI) ready to open for business. His head cook, Adrian, was present along with the AI’s two bartenders, Taylor and Ashley.</div>
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Alcantar said, “Two young women walked in and asked, ‘Are you guys open?’ I said come on in, we’re not open yet but what do you need?”</div>
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Alcantar continued, “So they sat at one end of the bar and ordered mimosas. Then I see this guy I’ve never seen before come in and sit at the other end of the bar. He didn’t order anything. It just seemed like he was observing.”</div>
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Alcantar said, “It wasn’t long before I learned that he was a locksmith and the mimosa girls were bartenders, all waiting for the “Somali Pirates” to hijack my business for the second time in 13 months.”</div>
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Alcantar opened a binder stuffed with photos and legal papers. He pointed to pictures of James Wieser and Jerome Chiaro and said, “A couple of minutes later these two come charging in the back door with another guy named John Austin yelling ‘it’s over. You’re done. We’re taking this bar over’”</div>
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Alcantar said, “That’s when I picked up the phone and called 911.</div>
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The time frame reported in LBPD radio dispatch reports, coupled with AI security video reviewed by the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> established that Alcantar was behind the bar with Hawaiian Bob when the three men entered from the back door.</div>
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Alcantar said, “I saw John Austin start to video on his cell phone when Weiser ignored our employees only sign and trespassed behind the bar, still yelling, ‘We’re taking over.’ I told him he had to get back. He kept coming. I shoved him back three times.”</div>
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Alcantar continued, “Hawaiian Bob grabbed me around the waist from behind and our cook, Adrian, put himself between me and Weiser. That’s when Weiser turned to Austin and said, ‘He did it. He did it. I got him to do it.’”</div>
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Weiser confirmed that he went behind the bar and added that in addition to being pushed three times Alcantar choked him, “And it took two people to pull him off of me.”</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> reviewed a court restraining order that Weiser applied for on Sept. 29. He attested that Alcantar “pushed me several times, grabbed me by the throat and pushed me to the ground.”</div>
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When the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> told Weiser that a video tape showed him being pushed back by Alcantar but there was no choking, Weiser said, “There is no video tape.”</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> informed Weiser that Hawaiian Bob showed the video to Officer James Stahmann and after viewing it Officer Stahmann said, “I don’t see any choking. I see three shoves.” Weiser was told that Officer Stahmann made a similar entry in his radio log, also reviewed by the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em>. Weiser said again, “I don’t know that there was a video.”</div>
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LBPD radio logs establish that<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – </em>immediately after Alcantar shoved him<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – </em>Weiser made his first call to LBPD dispatch and alleged that Alcantar had committed battery upon his person. Weiser told the dispatcher “I am the new owner” and hung up.</div>
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The radio log indicates that 20 seconds later Weiser called dispatch again and said, “There is a dispute, the managers had a meeting yesterday and they elected a new manager, and the prior manager is not accepting it. He’s yelling and causing a disturbance.”</div>
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A few minutes later, the officer who would take charge of the incident, James Stahmann, arrived as did an attorney named Anthony Trujillo, Gene Rotondo, one of the individuals involved in the break in reported in Part One and another man named Timothy Moriarty – all of whom represented themselves as AI owners.</div>
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Hawaiian Bob told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> that he was allowed to remain inside while Officer Stahmann ordered his partner, Alcantar, outside.</div>
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Hawaiian Bob said he saw the pirates and their attorney showing legal papers to Officer Stahmann. He said, “Pretty soon Stahmann comes over to me with one of the documents and tells me that these guys have a right to be here. He shows me one of their legal papers. He points to a line that says, ‘Belmont Station (the organization owned by the pirates) has a potential 45 percent ownership of the Acapulco Inn.’ I pointed to the word “potential” and asked the officer if he knew what that meant.”</div>
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Hawaiian Bob continued, “He just looked at me so I tried to simplify it for him. I said, it means maybe or maybe not. Maybe they own 45 percent and maybe they don’t. It’s potential. It’s a civil matter. It has to be decided in court.”</div>
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Hawaiian Bob said that both he and Alcantar asked Stahmann multiple times to call for a sergeant. “The pirates didn’t have a court order. Stahmann just wasn’t getting it,” he said.</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em>’s review of LBPD radio logs establishes that Officer Stahmann did call for a sergeant. The log also included a statement that there was “no rush.”</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> reviewed LBPD manual section 7.1.9.1. It reads: “A field sergeant shall be notified by an officer and/or the communications center and is required to respond to any circumstance where any person demands a supervisor.”</div>
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Alcantar said, “Stahmann came up to me and said, ‘you can’t go around touching people.’ I asked him, even if they are robbing you? Stahmann says, ‘I’m trying to figure out why I’m not handcuffing you and taking you to jail.’ I said for what? Protecting my business and property? Then he asked me for my identification.”</div>
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“When I gave it to him he wrote me a citation for battery, Alcantar said. “He told me that Weiser wanted to make a citizen’s arrest and that he had every right to do so, even though the video Stahmann watched showed Weiser trespass, force his way behind the bar and then put on a big phony show for the video John Austin was shooting with his cell phone.”</div>
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According to Alcantar, Stahmann had him sign the citation, told him that a sergeant had been called, allowed the trio to take over the business and left the scene.</div>
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Alcantar and Hawaiian Bob said they waited at a restaurant across the street for a sergeant two hours before they finally called East Division. Sgt. Eric Golz, who took the call, refused to come to the location but agreed that they could come to the station.</div>
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Alcantar said they met with Sergeants Jose Flores and Eric Golz, at the station. “We explained the facts to them and they didn‘t really seem to care,” Alcantar said.</div>
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“They said it was a civil matter and there was nothing they could do,” he said. “We kept telling them that the pirates did not have a court order and kept asking why Stahmann allowed them to take over the business. They just shrugged and sat there stone-faced. Finally Bob said, ‘Let’s just go. This meeting is getting nowhere. So, we left.”</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> asked the LBPD veteran for an opinion as to why the two sergeants would do nothing. The veteran said, “That’s how it’s done. They knew Stahmann screwed up and the LBPD never admits to screw-ups. They just let the clock run until it goes away.”</div>
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With the help of the Belmont Shore Street Business Association and Councilmember Suzie Price, Alcantar was able to arrange a meeting with LBPD East Division Police Commander Eric Herzog at Price’s field office on Oct. 13, 2017. Those present included Alcantar, Hawaiian Bob, Price’s field deputy Lisa West and Herzog.</div>
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Alcantar said he told the commander that he was “not happy with the outcome of that day, that it defied logic and asked how it could have happened.” Alcantar said Herzog replied, “Well, you’re a businessman.”</div>
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Alcantar said that he did not understand where that comment came from and asked, “One question sir. Are your officers authorized to turn over a privately owned business to a third party without a court order?”</div>
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Alcantar said Herzog replied, “My officers are not authorized to do that.”</div>
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Commander Eric Herzog responded to the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber’s</em> request for comment and wrote: “The statements you are attributing to me are false.”</div>
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Hawaiian Bob confirmed Alcantar’s statement. Lisa West, field deputy for Councilmember Suzie Price, stated that she could not recall if Alcantar asked the question or if Herzog answered it.</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> polled three former chiefs of police (one from Long Beach) a former LAPD police commission executive director, the chair of Law Enforcement Action Partnership and a former LASO police lieutenant and constitutional rights attorney with the question: “In your career as a police officer have you ever enforced, endorsed or supported a policy addressing civil business disputes in which officers were authorized to turn over a privately-owned business to a third party without a court order?”</div>
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The reply was unanimous: “No.”</div>
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Alcantar said he and Hawaiian Bob took the matter of the takeover to civil court. Because the judge who had presided over all prior litigation between the parties was on vacation, it took them five weeks to obtain a court order to retake their business, which was accomplished on the afternoon of Oct. 27, 2017.</div>
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Between legal costs, loss of business and inventory economic costs were in excess of $200,000, according to Acantar.</div>
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<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hawaiian Bob said, “When we first took the AI back our attorney advised us to sleep on the premises for a few days as a precaution. And sure enough, they came back. On the second morning I woke up to the sound of a drill cutting into the front door.”</em></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The Beachcomber reviewed video from the outside AI security camera. It featured James Weiser drilling the deadlock on the front door, while his associates waited to gain entry.</em></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hawaiian Bob said he called the LBPD while he and his employee barricaded the door to keep the pirates out until the police arrived.</em></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">“This time we had a court order, “ Hawaiian Bob said, “but at first the police wouldn’t honor it. They said it wasn’t in their system. I showed them the paper with the official court stamp and told them that maybe they should serve it. That’s when they backed off and stopped listening to the pirates.”</em></div>
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<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Hawaiian Bob said that Weiser and his associates were told to leave, “but the cops didn’t arrest or cite any of them for drilling our door or trying to force entry. They said it was a civil matter.”</em></div>
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Alcantar said he paid a criminal attorney $5,000 to handle the battery charge lodged by Weiser. He was unsure if the city prosecutor refused to file or if the court dismissed the charge. He said his attorney told him he was not required to appear.</div>
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Weiser told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> that he was not asked or told anything about what happened with the citizen’s arrest he made. When asked if he cared if a crime committed against his person was not prosecuted he said “I’m not gonna go there.”</div>
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Alcantar reported the takeover incidents to LBPD’s Internal Affairs Division in late October 2017.</div>
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Just short of one year later (Sept. 24, 2018) Alcantar received a letter from the Citizen Police Complaint Commission’s (CPCC) executive director, Anitra Dempsey, who notified him that his complaint had been classified as No Further Action (NFA)<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> – </em>a similar disposition that Dempsey unilaterally applied to 490 other citizen complaints between Jan. 2014 and July 2018, according city records acquired by the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em>.</div>
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Three days later, Alcantar received a letter from LBPD Internal Affairs Commander Lloyd Cox notifying him that his complaint had been classified as unfounded.</div>
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Alcantar appeared before the CPCC commissioners on Oct. 11, 2018 and appealed Anitra Dempsey’s NFA decision.</div>
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Alcantar said, “I don’t really expect a just result, but it will serve as another piece of straw on that corrupt LBPD haystack that might catch fire some day. Then, maybe we’ll get to see some change.”</div>
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<em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Stephen Downing is a resident of Long Beach and a retired LAPD deputy chief of police.</em></div>
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<span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; display: inline !important; float: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">For those who want to know the true reasons that led to the closing of ACAPULCO INN, here's the first part of the story! I back everything that was said by Trac</span><span class="text_exposed_show" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1c1e21; display: inline; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">y Alcantar! Do not forget these names: GENE ROTONDO who used to own Legends, JEROME CHIARO owner of The Annex, TIM MORIARTY the wannabe bookie, and lastly, probably one of the worst human beings I've ever met in my life, JIMMY DUBOIS WEISER who owns both Brien O'Connors on Paramount blvd and THIRSTY ISLE on Carson and Lakewood. These guys are all WOLVES IN SHEEPS CLOTHING (except Jimmy Weiser, the whole world knows he's grimy). I'll post the second article too... Some of ya'll might know them and find what im saying either inappropriate and/or inaccurate. Hear me out.... I was the Manager of Acapulco Inn with Stevan H. during the most turbulent of times, until it officially closed this year on April 5th. I was present in court during the cross-examinations. I was there when Jerome Chiaro, John Austin, and Jimmy Weiser showed up and drilled through the deadbolt on the front door, not knowing that Hawaiian Bob and I had slept there because we anticipated these CRIMINALS trying to break back in.... Hell, I held Jimmy's short ass at the door while Bob called the cops.... all while John Austin was recording directly in front of me and Jerome Chiaro was across the street recording, hoping to get me on video laying hands on Jimmy (Yes Jerome, I Saw you) Funny thing about that situation, I actually have JIMMY hitting ME on camera!.... He lied to the Police about Tracy choking him, broke into A.I. like the criminal he is while the LBPD did absolutely nothing, and consistently used false paperwork to carry out his lil 'hostile takeovers' that the LBPD would enforce, WITHOUT A COURT ORDER .... Smh. Scum of the Earth, not worth anymore than the shit I take in the morning! <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/goodmorning?source=feed_text" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">GoodMorning</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/acapulcoinn?source=feed_text" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">ACAPULCOINN</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/belmontshore?source=feed_text" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">BelmontShore</span></span></a> <a class="_58cn" data-ft="{"type":104,"tn":"*N"}" href="https://www.facebook.com/hashtag/morningcupofvan?source=feed_text" style="color: #365899; cursor: pointer; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; text-decoration: none;"><span class="_5afx" style="direction: ltr; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;"><span aria-label="hashtag" class="_58cl _5afz" style="color: #365899; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">#</span><span class="_58cm" style="font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;">MorningCupofVAN</span></span></a></span><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike></div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-65804519494021646622018-10-14T12:04:00.001-07:002018-10-14T12:04:56.663-07:00When you buy a house, you lose<div class="caas-yvideo-wrapper" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: black; color: #1d2228; font-family: YahooSans,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: -20px; margin-right: -20px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; width: 1049.34px; word-spacing: 0px;">
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My friend posted on social media recently that she had just bought a house and she was #Winning. The truth is that when you buy a house you are making a terrible investment. You’re not winning. You’re losing.</div>
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Many believe that homeownership equals wealth. But that’s simply not true. The average person is much better off renting and putting extra money he or she would use for a down payment into liquid investments. By liquid, I mean something you can sell immediately if you get into a financial pinch, such as stocks or bonds.</div>
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First, renting is often cheaper than ownership. For some reason there’s disagreement about this, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.census.gov/quickfacts/fact/table/US/PST045217" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #188fff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">but renting is clearly cheaper</a>. Nationwide, from 2012 to 2016, the average median monthly gross rent was $949. That’s rent plus utilities. Comparable homeownership via mortgage plus taxes and other costs averaged $1,491.</div>
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And then people say, “But if I buy a house, and it appreciates in value, I earn the difference and I get a place to live. Paying rent is like flushing money down the toilet!”</div>
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Let’s debunk that myth now. First, shelter is one of humanity’s basic needs. So if you’re flushing money down the toilet paying for rent — as in a roof over your head — you’re not flushing money down the toilet.</div>
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Renters also save money by not having to pay things like homeowners association fees, property taxes, realtor fees, and closing costs, not to mention fixing anything that goes wrong with your home, such as the water heater, furnace, air conditioning system, plumbing, roof, septic … Everything.</div>
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You lose</h3>
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When the toilet — the one I’m flushing my money down — breaks in my apartment, I call my apartment manager or supervisor and he takes care of it. For free.</div>
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And secondly, sure, houses can appreciate in value, but not as fast as the stock market. Between 1969 and 2004, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.investopedia.com/articles/mortages-real-estate/11/the-truth-about-the-real-estate-market.asp" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #188fff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">home prices rose by an average of 6.4%</a>. That’s great until you realize that the average size of a house doubled during that time. Throw in inflation, and that basically accounts for the increase.</div>
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Then there’s what happened after 2004. Prices plateaued and then fell off a cliff, dropping 30% in just three years, between 2008 and 2010. The S&P 500 has risen an average of 9.8% every year since 1909, including even the Great Recession.</div>
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As Ken Fisher, the founder and executive chairman of Fisher Investments, <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2018/02/18/why-your-home-lousy-investment-when-you-think-its-great/340516002/" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #188fff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">wrote recently,</a> “Yes, you might make money if you spot some trend, then buy right, at the right time and the right location, then put lipstick on a pig (which few do well), and flip it. It’s a comforting mythology, like reality TV. Folks routinely fool themselves by calculating returns dead wrong.”</div>
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You lose</h3>
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Third, homebuyers who take out a mortgage don’t actually pay the sticker price. For a $300,000 home with a 10% down payment, the average buyer is going to end up paying an additional $251,790 in interest over the terms of a 30-year mortgage. Then they’ll pay another $72,000 in taxes and an additional $38,775 for insurance and homeowners’ fees. That’s not even counting property taxes and fees to real estate agents and brokers.</div>
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<figcaption style="color: #767d84; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 20px; margin-right: 20px; margin-top: 5px; text-align: left;">This graphic from MortgageCalculator.org shows the total cost of a mortgage, including HOA fees, interest and fees.</figcaption></figure><div style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: transparent; color: #1d2228; font-family: YahooSans,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 14.93px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; margin-bottom: 11.94px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-decoration: none; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px;">
Yes, you can write off a portion of your mortgage interest, but that portion is just that — a portion —and there’s <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.marketwatch.com/story/what-the-new-tax-law-will-do-to-your-mortgage-interest-deduction-2018-02-09" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #188fff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">a lot of red tape around what you can and can’t deduct thanks to the new Tax Cut and Jobs Act</a>.</div>
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So even if you sell your home for twice what you bought it for you might not break even.</div>
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And that’s if you pay it off. For the first few years of a mortgage, most people are just paying off interest because mortgages are structured to keep them from paying off the principal — the actual money that goes toward the home — until the very end.</div>
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When investing, you want to weigh the evidence and find the investment that is going to provide you the best return.</div>
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And <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/homeownership-doesnt-build-wealth-study-finds.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #188fff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">evidence says that</a>, “On average, renting and reinvesting wins in terms of wealth creation regardless of property appreciation, because property appreciation is highly correlated with gains in the traditional financial asset classes of stocks and bonds.” Those were the findings of a 2017 <a class="link rapid-noclick-resp" href="https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/16/homeownership-doesnt-build-wealth-study-finds.html" rel="nofollow noopener" style="color: #188fff; text-decoration: none;" target="_blank">study</a> from Florida Atlantic University, Florida International University and the University of Wyoming.</div>
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Instead of paying $300,000 of interest, you could be earning it. As interest rates rise — as they’re doing now — it means it’s more expensive to buy a house. You can also earn more on investments. Now is the time to invest that money and let the bank pay you, rather than paying the bank. Home ownership is a crock, it’s a sham, it’s a bad bet. You can play if you want, but odds are you’ll lose.</div>
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Tracy Alcantar and his attorney, Jerry L. Steering, call them the Somali Pirates. Their names are Eugene Rotondo, Jerome Chiaro and James Wieser.</div>
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When telling his story to the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em>, Tracy Alcantar, 60, a retired mortgage broker said, “We use to refer to them as the knuckle heads, but I decided that Somali Pirates was a better description. My attorney liked it.â€</div>
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Alcantar was referring to the year 2000 piracy attacks off the coast of Somalia that threatened international shipping when Somali Pirates were enabled to hijack ships with impunity because of the absence of an effective national coast guard.</div>
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Alcantar said, “It fit perfectly. These guys take over a business and sell its goods with impunity just like those pirates did when they hijacked the ships. And the LBPD helped them get away with it.â€</div>
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Alcantar began his story by showing the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> a videotape date stamped August 25, 2016, 7:20 a.m. – a Thursday.</div>
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Two men he identified as Eugene Rotondo and Jerome Chiaro stroll up from different directions, look around and casually stop on each side of the sidewalk leading to the front door of the Acapulco Inn (AI) on 2<sup style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 8.26px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: transparent; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: super;">nd</sup> Street in Belmont Shore.</div>
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A third man, James (Jimmy) Wieser approaches from a vehicle parked at the curb. Wieser glances around and strolls casually past Rotondo and Chiaro to the AI’s front door.</div>
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Wieser glances around and then stoops to look into the mail slot.</div>
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Alcantar, whose investment made him one of the majority owners of the Acapulco Inn four years prior, narrates the video, “So, that’s Jimmy. See him looking though the mail slot, trying to see if anyone is inside?â€</div>
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Alcantar explains that Wieser owns the Thirsty Isle bar on Carson Street near Lakewood Boulevard and Jerome Chiaro is owner of The Annex, on Stearns Street at Lakewood Boulevard.</div>
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He told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> “both places are watering holes for LBPD’s East Division. Both of them have the Police Officer’s Association (POA) membership support plaques hanging in their bars.â€</div>
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The <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> reviewed the POA website and found that it solicits business owner’s financial support with the message, “Whether you are looking to create <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">brand visibility</em> or <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">direct response</em>, we’ve got you covered.â€</div>
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Alcantar points again to the video screen, “Now, Wieser is going to go back to his car.â€</div>
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The video shows James Wieser turn, give Rotondo and Chiaro a furtive nod and walk back to the vehicle parked at the curb, leaving the video frame for several seconds.</div>
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Wieser then re-enters the frame holding a power drill close to his chest. Rotondo and Chiaro alter their positions giving Wieser cover from the street.</div>
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Alcantar continues his narration, “See the drill? He’s got both Gene Rotondo – one of the guys I bought the place from – and his backup, Jerome Chiaro, giving him cover as pedestrians are walking by with their dogs.â€</div>
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The deadbolt is cut, Wieser pushes the door open and the three men enter Alcantar’s business.</div>
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Alcantar continued his story as the interior security cameras pick up the three men inside, “So, this guy Gene Rotondo, he used to be an owner of Legends and an owner of the Acapulco Inn (AI). The AI was a dead zone back in 2010 and Rotondo and another one of his partners, Timothy Moriarty, wanted to sell.â€</div>
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Alcantar shuts off the video and continues, “Me, I’m a retired mortgage guy but my friend Hawaiian Bob (Aristides Gascon) who knows about running a place like the AI says, ‘well why don’t you and I join forces and buy those guys out?’ So, I check with my wife and she says, ‘Heck yeah! We can turn that place around.’ So, we bought them out, and over the next couple of years we made the AI a real success. So much so that these guys wanted it back.â€</div>
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Alcantar continues with the complex story involving years of litigation he and his partner underwent “With them pushing to make something out of some worthless shares they bought from the bankruptcy court, their fraud, phony legal filings and us spending hundreds of thousands in legal fees to fight this complete nonsense.â€</div>
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Alcantar said the day of the break-in his attorney had “just wrapped up the case in Judge Klein’s Long Beach courtroom and finalized a sanction for attorney’s fees in our favor.â€</div>
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Alcantar continued, “So, our attorney is in court getting that done the morning these pirates break into my business. I’m at home and around 9:25 a.m. and I get a text message from a number I’d never seen before but later found out it came from Jimmy Wieser’s cell phone. It reads, ‘You might want to come to AI for a change of management.’“</div>
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Alcantar said, “Right away I smelled something. So, I called my attorney who was just finishing up in court to meet me there. I got in my car and headed out. On my way I saw a LBPD black and white and waved him down.â€</div>
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Alcantar said that Sergeant Mark Kosoy, working out of LBPD’s East Division, occupied the black and white. He briefed Kosoy about his suspicions that an illegal takeover was in process at the AI and asked the sergeant to accompany him, which he agreed to do.</div>
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When they arrived, Alcantar said, “My attorney was waiting for me outside and the three of them, Rotondo, Chiaro and Wieser, were inside sitting at the bar with all these so-called legal papers spread out to allege their phony ownership.â€</div>
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Alcantar said, “So, I walked in and went up to Rotondo, took him by the arm and said, ‘You got to go. Now! Rotondo says, ‘Don’t touch me’ and then the sergeant steps in and says, ‘You can’t touch those people.’ I told the sergeant, like I had told him before, they don’t belong here. I don’t even know how they got in here.â€</div>
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Alcantar continues, “Then my attorney steps up and tells the sergeant about having been in court that morning. He shows him the papers related to the hearing and tells the sergeant how the judge put sanctions on Rotondo, pointing out that they had no legal right to even be in the place.â€</div>
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Alcantar shakes his head, “And the sergeant says, ‘how do I know any of that’s true?’ That’s when Rotondo starts showing the sergeant all the so-called legal paper’s he’s got laid out on the bar and for some reason the sergeant starts buying into his phony side of the story.â€</div>
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Alcantar told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> that at about this time he was getting hot and Sergeant Kosoy told his attorney that he should, “Get me out of there.â€</div>
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“I objected,†Alcantar said. “This was a hijack; I didn’t even know how they got in there. It had to be some kind of break in. I said, how can the police back something like this up?â€</div>
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Alcantar said his attorney told him that the sergeant was not listening to any of it and advised that they should leave and get a court order, something that the three men who broke in did not have.</div>
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“A court order; that’s something that Sergeant Kosoy should have been asking them for,†Alcantar said.</div>
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Alcantar continued, “So, I gave up. We left, hired another set of attorney’s that cost us another $10,000 and went back to Judge Klein’s court the next morning.â€</div>
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Judge Kline was very familiar with the case, “Alcantara said, “and not at all happy with the blatant violations pulled by Rotondo and his pirate friends. We got the court order and they were removed from the premises that afternoon.â€</div>
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Alcantar showed the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> a copy of the court order, as well as court documents that supported the litigation to which he referred to in his story.</div>
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Alcantar said that after he took possession of the AI he discovered that the pirates damaged the security videos and it took several days to be restored by a specialist.</div>
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Alcantar played the eight-camera security video (no audio) for the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em>.</div>
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It showed the break in at 7:23 a.m.</div>
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It showed Wieser make a phone call and while on the phone step outside, look up at the building to verify the address and then re-enter and end the call at 7:26 a.m.</div>
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It showed Chiaro clean up the inside and outside debris from the break in at 7:39 a.m.</div>
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It showed a uniform LBPD officer (Herrea) arrive at 7:40 a.m., shake hands with each of the three men, enter into a discussion, look at their papers and then shake hands again before exiting the premises at 7:45 a.m.</div>
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It showed Weiser texting on his cell phone at 9:25 a.m., the same time that Alcantar received the mysterious text that read, “You might want to come to AI for a change of management.“</div>
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It showed a technician enter and install a temporary credit card processing machine at 9:36 a.m.</div>
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It showed Sgt. Kosoy and another officer (Herrea again) arrive on scene at 9:59 a.m. Alacantar’s attorney is present. Alcantar arrives seconds later and leaves the scene a few minutes later.</div>
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At 10:07 a.m. Sgt. Kosoy shakes hands with the pirates and exits along with the uniformed officer (Herrea).</div>
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Alcantar told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> that after reviewing the video he called East Division and informed them that he wanted to report a burglary.</div>
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Sgt. Kosoy responded.</div>
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Alcantar said, “I showed the sergeant the entire video, pointed out how they broke in, showed him the temporary credit card machine being installed, showed him test receipts on the machine and told him what several of my customers reported the pirates did the night before selling our inventory, taking in cash without ringing it up and running sales though their bootleg credit card machine.â€</div>
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Alcantar told the <em style="background-attachment: scroll; background-clip: border-box; background-color: transparent; background-image: none; background-origin: padding-box; background-position-x: 0%; background-position-y: 0%; background-repeat: repeat; background-size: auto; border-bottom-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-bottom-style: none; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-image-outset: 0; border-image-repeat: stretch; border-image-slice: 100%; border-image-source: none; border-image-width: 1; border-left-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-left-style: none; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-right-style: none; border-right-width: 0px; border-top-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); border-top-style: none; border-top-width: 0px; font-size: 12px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; outline-color: invert; outline-style: none; outline-width: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Beachcomber</em> that the sergeant shrugged, told him the burglary and theft of his inventory was a civil matter and refused to take a crime report.</div>
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After reviewing this story, Tom Barham, a former Los Angeles Sheriff’s lieutenant, combat veteran and distinguished constitutional rights attorney commented as follows:</div>
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“The crime of burglary is committed if a person enters, among other things, a shop, store or other building with the intent to commit grand theft, petty theft or any felony. Penal Code 459.</div>
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The police are obligated to take reports of alleged crimes and convey those reports to either a city prosecutor or district attorney. In Long Beach, the city prosecutor is responsible for misdemeanor and infraction prosecutions whereas the Los Angeles County District Attorney prosecutes felony crimes.</div>
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“It seems that the good sergeant didn’t stay in his lane when he decided for the prosecutors that this was a civil matter,†Barham said.</div>
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Alcantar and his partner went back to running the AI – but there would be a second take over by the Somali Pirates 13 months later – their criminality would again be immunized and protected by the LBPD and this time Tracy Alcantar would report it to the LBPD’s Internal Affairs Division.</div>
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Part Two of this two-part series will report on Alcantar’s experiences with LBPD Internal Affairs and the staff of the Citizen Police Complaint Commission (CPCC), the classification of police conduct during the second criminal invasion as No Further Action (NFA) and how – as Alcantar said, “I came to learn just how deep the cover-up of police misconduct is allowed to thrive in the City of Long Beach.â€</div>
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<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-88348978992321497142017-03-22T10:19:00.002-07:002017-03-22T10:19:17.030-07:00having too many jobs sometimes leads to none! one of the draw backs of juggling several jobs is arranging a day off your main job to accommodate booking the other higher paying one- only to have THAT job postpone - and then you end up having a day off that you did not really want or need -- umm...ok...gonna try to make the most of it - going for a beach run!<br />
<b></b><i></i><u></u><sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike><br />Stacy Burkehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11115694629819580681noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2665856629091764065.post-58820178339210953752017-02-07T17:46:00.001-08:002017-02-07T17:46:28.808-08:00Marriage Meddlers How I despise Marriage Meddlers - some ppl just love to stir the pot and enjoy watching it boil over - Men are the worst of this, in my experience! Go on, believe the lies, push my buttons, watch me react, see the aftermath and judge - since you are so free from sin.<br />
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