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AMERICAN PITCHFORK'S DUPAYOSHES OF THE WEEK

American Pitchfork Manifesto: Tipping Point on the Road to Amarabia?

A Fictional Retrospective From the Great Beyond

By Pitchfork © 2009-2011

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Dupayosh of the Week   Mass. Award = Mass. Stupidity + Mass. Hysteria + Mass. Overreaction

"There was a little girl
Who had a little curl
Right in the middle of her forehead.
And when she was good
She was very good, indeed
But when she was bad
She was horrid!"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"Police responded in force today to a report of a man with a rifle at a mall, evacuating shoppers and calling in a SWAT team as worried workers locked themselves into stores. But it turned out that the man was only carrying an umbrella.

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“ 'It was interpreted to be a gun by five different people,' said Burlington Police Chief Michael Kent. 'We are always telling people to be vigilant. This is what we want.'

“ 'I’d do it all over again if this happened tomorrow,' said Kent, who said about 40 officers responded to the scene from his department, surrounding departments, the State Police, and federal agencies such as the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement."

“Mass. mall 'gunman' was just carrying umbrella” Posted by Martin Finucane, www.boston.com, Burlington, April 19, 2011