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-Lurid Crime Tales-
Community Activists Re-distribute Wobegone Wealth (burglars hit Garrison Keillor)
2009-08-02
ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug. 1 (UPI) -- Pastor Inqvist of the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church would be shocked: Thieves have struck author Garrison Keillor's St. Paul, Minn., bookstore, officials say.

Video surveillance tapes showed a man and woman entering Keillor's store about 1:20 a.m. Thursday, making off with $3,000 from the safe of Common Good Books, store manager Martin Schmutterer told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Sounds like an uncommonly good haul.
"They were very calm about it," he said after posting still photos of the burglars online on the bookstore's blog page. Schmutterer said the pair smashed a window in a coffee shop above the store, then made their way downstairs to loot a safe.

Asked if Keillor, the celebrated author and host of the long-running public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," on which Pastor Inqvist is a running character, had seen the video, Schmutterer said he had. He told the Pioneer Press the creator of the innocent, fictional town of Lake Wobegon didn't say much after seeing it.

"(Keillor is) very calm about it, but I wouldn't want to put words in his mouth," he said.
"It's that goddam Norm Coleman's fault. I though we were rid of him."
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#6  Busted a safe, huh?
He fire anybody lately?
Posted by: tu3031   2009-08-02 22:04  

#5  ...I still listen to it every chance I get - I just filter out the political crap.

BTW, avoid the movie at all costs. Mystery Science Theater 3000 would throw it away as being just too easy.

Mike
Posted by: Mike Kozlowski   2009-08-02 20:27  

#4  Snicker
Posted by: DarthVader   2009-08-02 19:39  

#3  I'm sure they needed the money, and, after all, who are we to judge? I hope they get away

/Garrison's facade
Posted by: Frank G   2009-08-02 19:25  

#2  My mother always said that if you couldn't say anything nice, don't say anything at all ...

But I used to love Prairie Home Companion - I never missed listening to it - right up until about the 2004 election. Then somehow, the choking aura of smug just got too thick for me to breathe. The constant dribble of slams about Bush, the amnesia about 9/11, the willful ignorance of the fact that in a real small-town flyover state there would have been dozens of active-duty service personnel affected by the war. But oh, no - GK was just too evolved, to right-coasty and too G-D smug to even mention it. So, I quit listening, altogether, although I understand that it's even worse, following the election of The One.
Pity - once it was a good program, and much more reflective of what America was really, really like - not the Hollywierd caricature usually presented in commonly-available media.

Oh, well - hope his theft insurance was paid-up.
Posted by: Sgt. Mom   2009-08-02 19:05  

#1  Where all the burglars are above average.
Posted by: ed   2009-08-02 18:30  

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