"...can't we all just get along?"
Posted on 03/18/2002 12:33:42 PM PST by TheRedSoxWinThePennant
STILL SMILING: Mr Potato Head shows off his battle scars including two broken arms, several scars and a broken hat. repairs for a smashed potato
MR POTATO Head was the victim of a savage attack last week.
The seven-foot statue carried on its run of bad luck after being kicked out of Belper by being beaten up by a gang of children.
The seven-foot cartoon character had one of his arms ripped off, his body kicked and scratched and his hat broken.
Amber Valley Borough Council's tourism officer Reg Whitworth originally brought the potato to Britain. He was so shocked by the attack he is considering sending the vegetable back to America.
He said: "It appears a group of youths attacked him while he was left standing outside Heanor Gate School. "And recently we've had a call from a tourism company in Rhode Island who want to take him on a tour America. "So at the moment I think we'd be quite happy to send him home."
After the attack Mr Potato Head was sent to Ripley fibre-glass specialists Technique Composites. They stuck his arm back on and repaired his battle scars. If Mr Potato Head is fully recovered he should be the guest of honour at today's grand re-opening of Belper's Safeway supermarket.
not sure. article doesn't say what kind of potato he is ....
Sounds like justification for a full Justice Dept. investigation regardless.
No doubt that the hooigans who did this were not able to look beyond his skin color.
knews hound
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"...can't we all just get along?"
First, they hang one of the most important sybbols in the world---
Then, they do this to Mr. Potato Head.
Oh, the humanity - What next?
If I remember correctly, this was the same Mr. Potato Head that a town on the east coast had to sell when some tourists complained that it looked like a derogatory characature of African-Americans.
I'll try to find the link, but the story is probably a couple of years old.
I remember it well, as there was a big stink about political correctness and over-sensitivity regarding the issue.
Oh-oh. Just over in another thread, I read:
Pop singer George Michael has said he thinks he got himself deliberately arrested for lewd conduct in 1998 to try to refocus his life after a string of tragedies. The star spoke openly about his arrest for lewd conduct in a Los Angeles public toilet in an interview with BBC Radio 1's Jo Whiley.
[Michael: My Arrest Was Deliberate.]
Let us all pray that Mr. Potato Head soon isn't arrested in an LA toilet, trying to "refocus his life" after his string of tragedies...
Mark W.
Nothing new... England has been a rough place for centuries. For example:
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"Oh, what sad times are these when passing ruffians can say 'Ni' at will to old ladies. There is a pestilence upon this land. Nothing is sacred. Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history."
- Roger the Shrubber
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Yukon potatoes are white. But if this Mr. Tater head is red or brown, it's gotta be a hate crime. Although it doesn't state the race of the little whipper snappers that perpetrated this heinous crime, and that could make a difference.
Only if it was Mrs. Potato Head they were talking about, and only if her first name was Idaho.
Full length feature, directed by Spike Lee of couse.
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