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No pepper spray found in Puerto Rico pageant case
Reuters via Drudge Report ^
| Dec 1, 2007
| John Marino
Posted on 12/02/2007 3:34:26 PM PST by RDTF
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (Reuters) - Police probing allegations that someone put pepper spray on a Puerto Rican beauty contestant's clothing said Saturday they would investigate whether anyone lied to them after tests found no traces of the substance on the woman's belongings.
Miss Puerto Rico Universe Ingrid Marie Rivera and pageant organizers claimed that someone had laced her makeup and doused her clothing with a chemical they believed to be pepper spray during the November 23 contest in an attempt to knock her out of the running.
The 24-year-old from the town of Dorado said she broke out in hives and swelling during the pageant and was forced to ice down her face and body backstage during the event.
On Friday, the Caribbean island's Forensic Sciences Institute said the brush and gown, delivered to police four days after the pageant, contained no traces of capsicum, pepper spray's active ingredient. They did not test for other chemicals.
"I guess she has a lot of explaining to do," police spokesman Stephen Alvarez said on Saturday.
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KEYWORDS: beautypageant; misspuertorico; pageant; puertorico
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To: RDTF
No, I asked a question. Why won’t you answer it?
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:17:50 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: Xenalyte
You are very rude. Go insult people someplace else.
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:19:03 PM PST
by
RDTF
("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
To: RDTF
Mocking beauty contests constitutes rudeness now? Hell, I thought it was more a duty....
To: RDTF
Because I asked a question?
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:21:39 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: Hegewisch Dupa
of course insulting pageants is a duty!
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posted on
12/02/2007 5:26:28 PM PST
by
RDTF
("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
To: RDTF
Isn't there an FR rule that states that all threads about beauty queens require pictures?
26
posted on
12/02/2007 6:01:28 PM PST
by
fr_freak
To: wardaddy
Crazy latina beauty queen alert.
27
posted on
12/02/2007 6:07:00 PM PST
by
Travis McGee
(---www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com---)
To: RDTF
There is no sense of humor at this dreck site anymore.
New/Activism Breaking News, hell announce your dog had puppies for all I care.
28
posted on
12/03/2007 3:07:23 AM PST
by
poobear
(Pure democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what's for dinner. God save the Republic!)
To: RDTF
“I guess she has a lot of explaining to do”
Lucy - you have a lot of splainin to do
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posted on
12/03/2007 4:57:28 AM PST
by
ODDITHER
To: Xenalyte
It’s difficult to understand if you were not born with two brains. Going through life with a reversible blood flow between the two causes momentary surges of interest in certain inane subject matter.
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posted on
12/03/2007 5:07:06 AM PST
by
Rb ver. 2.0
(Global warming is the new Marxism.)
To: RDTF
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posted on
12/03/2007 5:18:45 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Hillary donors find their way to the cover of Time. And the very next day they're doing it...)
To: RDTF
Not guilty.
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posted on
12/03/2007 5:26:38 AM PST
by
Libloather
(Hillary donors find their way to the cover of Time. And the very next day they're doing it...)
To: Libloather
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posted on
12/03/2007 5:52:05 AM PST
by
RDTF
("Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear". Mark Twain)
To: RDTF
Police say Miss Puerto Rico Universe Irgrid Marie Rivera 'has
explaining to do' about alleged assault.
In related news: Thousands of men volunteer to take Ingrid's statement.
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posted on
12/03/2007 6:12:48 AM PST
by
Zakeet
(Be thankful we don't get all the government we pay for)
To: cll
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posted on
12/03/2007 8:03:37 AM PST
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Hard lesson learned in the 1980's: "Never perm and dye your hair at the same time")
To: RDTF
Too bad... a pretty girl but nonetheless this issue will lower her credibility and chances of becoming Miss Universe...
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posted on
12/03/2007 8:30:17 AM PST
by
SilvieWaldorfMD
(Hard lesson learned in the 1980's: "Never perm and dye your hair at the same time")
To: Xenalyte
Mark my words.
World peace will be achieved at a scholarship program (beauty contest).
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posted on
12/03/2007 2:36:31 PM PST
by
Eaker
(If illegal immigrants were so great for an economy; Mexico would be building a wall to keep them in)
To: Eaker
Miss South Carolina is a peaceful person. ;)
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posted on
12/03/2007 2:38:40 PM PST
by
Xenalyte
(Can you count, suckas? I say the future is ours . . . if you can count.)
To: SilvieWaldorfMD; Clemenza
Thanks for the pings doctora and Clemenza. Sorry I’m late to the story. I’ve been busy with the Venezuela situation and work and don’t have my Puerto Rico ping list with me.
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posted on
12/03/2007 3:48:42 PM PST
by
cll
(Carthage must be destroyed)
To: RDTF
I was holding a can of pepper spray on my fridge for months thinking about giving it to a neighbor who needed it (I had NO use for it). Unfortunately, they had a falling out with us so I just dumped it in the can.
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posted on
12/03/2007 5:43:10 PM PST
by
444Flyer
(NEVER take a "mark" to "buy or sell"!Jos24:15, Rev 22:17,John 3:1-36, Eph 6, Rev 12:11, Jer 29:13-14)
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