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Nearly 250 bras have been decorated as part of the “Creative Cups” campaign. It benefits Adelphi University’s Statewide Breast Cancer Hotline and Support Program in New York. Photos by Jim Lennon
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Clorox offers $5K to wipe out SF ‘toilet torcher’
1010WINS
March 20, 2009
San Francisco (AP) — The Clorox Company is offering a $5,000 reward and a year’s supply of toilet cleaning products for tips leading to the arrest of San Francisco’s notorious portable potty pyromaniac.
The Oakland-based chemical company deployed a “potty patrol” team in the city Friday to make residents aware of its offer marrying marketing and community service.
Since November, more than two dozen construction site toilets have been set on fire in the city, causing an estimated $50,000 in property damage and leaving a trail of foul-smelling evidence.
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Magician who claimed he mailed self admits to hoax
by William Kates
1010WINS
March 10, 2009
Syracuse, N.Y. (AP) — A magician who posted videos online detailing a “trip” he made in a crate aboard a cargo plane from upstate New York to Las Vegas admitted Tuesday that it was an elaborate hoax.
“It was a publicity stunt right from the start,” said Wade Whitcomb, of North Syracuse, after federal officials declared the event a hoax. “If that’s what they say, that must be the truth.”
“The FBI spoke to Whitcomb; he did not ship himself anywhere. We have no further interest in this,” FBI spokesman Richard Kolko said Tuesday.
Whitcomb had claimed he folded himself into a cramped wooden crate for the 26-hour trip on a United Parcel Service truck and a UPS plane. He posted a series of videos online of the purported trip shot with tiny cameras pointed out of the crate and one inside focused on him.
Whitcomb, who goes by the stage name Wade Live, claimed he made the trip last November to publicize a buddy’s Web site.
The Transportation Security Administration and the FBI investigated Whitcomb’s claim, saying it would violate a number of laws. The Atlanta-based UPS Inc. also investigated.
UPS spokesman Dan McMackin said he couldn’t verify the claim.
“To me, it seems like a publicity stunt, and therefore, I think it could be a hoax,” he said.