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The name of the section of the newspaper where this appeared is, "WTF" (Weird Trivia and Facts)
1 posted on 12/19/2006 2:27:21 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: Graybeard58
Some women at a tavern near this Metro East community took playing with their food to a new level last week by wrestling in mashed potatoes, and now the bar's owner is in hot legal water.

Why? Did he fail to provide butter and sour cream?

2 posted on 12/19/2006 2:28:25 PM PST by JRios1968 (Tagline wanted...inquire within)
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``Basically, the clothing on the female bar patrons was being removed,'' Wells said.

I'd never heard of mashed potato wrestling before (hmmm, were they instant or real?) but I imagine that the removal of the clothing of the female patrons was the whole point.

But now they're busted. Well, damn. And I'm headed to that part of the country for Christmas too. Always a day late and a dollar short.

4 posted on 12/19/2006 2:37:58 PM PST by Southside_Chicago_Republican
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To: Graybeard58

We got rules here, boy!


5 posted on 12/19/2006 4:09:07 PM PST by lesser_satan (EKTHELTHIOR!!!)
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To: Graybeard58
Imagine my reaction when I first saw this story online:

Mashed potato wrestlers stir up trouble at bar

By Leah Thorsen
ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH
Tuesday, Dec. 19 2006



Rhonda Cato

MADISON COUNTY — Four scantily clad women who wrestled in a swimming pool filled with mashed potatoes have whipped up a legal mess for a bar owner here, police said Monday.

Rhonda Cato has been cited with a misdemeanor charge of obscenity and with a liquor license violation for Thursday's performance at the Palace Tavern, 5150 Illinois Route 140.

The wrestling match turned raunchy when the women pulled up each others' shirts, said Lt. Brad Wells of the Madison County sheriff's office.

Police say Cato, 48, locked the door to the tavern during the match, which took place in an inflatable children's swimming pool filled with the mashed spuds. About 40 people watched, Wells said.

The partial nudity violated the terms of Cato's liquor license, as well as obscenity rules, Wells said.

The only advertisement for the event was a message on a dry-erase board at the bar, Wells said. The wrestlers could face criminal charges, he said.

Cato, of the 200 block of Jennings Avenue in Wood River, was arrested and cited Friday after someone tipped off police. She posted $100 bail.

A woman who answered the phone at the bar Monday said the allegations against Cato had been "blown out of proportion."

(Then I realized she's not one of the wrestlers, but the bar owner.)
9 posted on 12/20/2006 7:28:54 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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