Re: Beware Of False Icons On Wed, 11 Oct 2006 15:51:33 -0400, humble.life <nospam@nospam.com> wrote:
> Many people are mesmerised by interesting information that follows some
> form of logic.
>
> Many people enjoy getting out of the "fear-shell" of pre-conditioning.
>
> All of them feel they have the answer for everything.
>
>
>
> The truth is in a 10 year follow-up of ALL advice given...
I love this story about bucks co
By Oshrat Carmiel
>
> INQUIRER SUBURBAN STAFF
> For three years, grocers in Bucks County have been baffled by a stealthy
> outlaw
> who they say sauntered through their aisles quietly ambushing their baked
> goods.
>
> Their shelves were lined with bags of crumbled cookies and bread that was
> smashed, poked and twisted beyond any hope of being sold.
>
> "It was mutilated. You could actually see there was a hand there," said
> Lou
> DeFranceseo, general manager of McCaffrey's market in Yardley, where the
> culprit struck dozens of times.
>
> Cookie and bread distributors were so puzzled by the losses that they at
> first
> assumed the damage was sabotage - the work of the competition - and
> called
> store owners to demand that they do something to stop it.
>
> "They were blaming each other," DeFranceseo said.
>
> In the end, one cookie company went so far as to install a hidden camera
> trained on the cookie aisle at the Giant supermarket in Yardley, where
> its
> losses were the greatest. And that, police say, led them to arrest a
> Bucks
> County man on Wednesday and charge him with damaging more than $8,000 in
> baked
> goods.
>
> Authorities say he hit three area grocery stores, and they suspect he
> may have
> crushed loaves of bread and cookies at two Langhorne retailers.
>
> Samuel Feldman, 37, of the 2400 block of Sterling Road in Lower
> Makefield, was
> charged with disorderly conduct and criminal mischief after police say a
> surveillance camera caught him on tape three separate times squeezing a
> loaf of
> bread, said Lower Makefield Police Chief Joseph Bainbridge.
>
> The camera was installed by the Davis Cookie Co. of Rimersburg, Pa.
> Police say
> company officials were so upset about the financial losses at the Bucks
> County
> stores that they decided to investigate and installed the camera.
>
> Through his attorney, Ellis Klein, Feldman adamantly denied damaging any
> baked
> goods - let alone the hundreds of cookies and bags of sliced bread over
> three
> years.
>
> Klein said that when the camera spied Feldman, he was simply looking for
> some
> fresh bread.
>
> Feldman was arraigned Wednesday before District Justice Joanne M.
> Adamchak and
> released on $10,000 unsecured bail.
>
> Klein said it was purely circumstantial that Feldman was found standing
> near a
> shelf of damaged baked goods. And as for squeezing the bread, Klein said,
> everyone does it. "I squeeze bread when I go to the store, but I don't
> get
> arrested for it," he said.
>
> The investigation began in January 1998, when the Davis Cookie Co., which
> distributes Archway cookies, reported a rash of crumbled and broken
> cookies to
> Lower Makefield police. Company officials told police they first noticed
> the
> problem in 1997.
>
> In February of last year, Bestfoods Baking Co., the distributor of
> Arnold and
> Freihoffer breads, reported similar problems to police, Bainbridge said.
>
> Over three years, Bestfoods reported $7,163 in losses, and Davis Cookie
> Co.
> reported $1,169 in losses, plus $5,299 in surveillance costs.
>
> Police said Feldman was linked to the damage by the hidden camera at the
> Giant
> store. Authorities made a still photo from the video image and
> distributed it
> to store employees, who spotted Feldman in the store on Dec. 10 and
> called
> police. He was taken into custody and questioned but later released.
>
> On Wednesday, police decided they had enough evidence to make an arrest.
> Klein
> said Feldman was stopped as he was carrying a loaf of bread to the
> checkout
> counter at the Giant.
>
> He said Feldman would vigorously contest the charges. "He's absolutely
> proclaiming his innocence in this case," the attorney said. |