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Former cocaine kingpin now serves dogs, not drugs
hosted. ^ | Sep 6 | DON BABWIN

Posted on 09/06/2009 4:05:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono

MARKHAM, Ill. (AP) -- Two decades after customers clamored to buy cocaine from a teenager named John Cappas, they're lined up again to buy what he has to sell: Hot dogs. The one-time "drug kingpin," as the newspapers called him in the late 1980s, this summer became an owner of a hot dog stand called Johnny's WeeNee Wagon.

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TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: cocaine; hotdogs

In this photo taken Wednesday, Sept. 2, 2009, Johnny Cappas, co-owner of Johnny's WeeNee Wagon, moves his Lucky Dog, a gift from his girlfriend, outside his hot dog stand in Markham, Ill. Cappas, a one-time "drug kingpin" as the papers called him, was making $25,000 a week selling cocaine before he went to federal prison in 1989 for what turned out to be a 15-year term. He was released from prison in 2004 and this summer with a partner bought the hot dog stand. (AP Photo/M. Spencer Green)


1 posted on 09/06/2009 4:05:15 PM PDT by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Sounds like he’s on the right path.


2 posted on 09/06/2009 4:08:48 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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Sounds like he’s all WeeNee’d up!


3 posted on 09/06/2009 4:11:47 PM PDT by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

LOL


4 posted on 09/06/2009 4:12:17 PM PDT by cripplecreek (Seniors, the new shovel ready project under socialized medicine.)
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To: cripplecreek

“...made him $25,000 a week - enough to buy a house, fast cars and a necklace that spelled “Spoiled Brat” in diamonds to drape around his Playboy bunny girlfriend....”


5 posted on 09/06/2009 4:12:39 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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6 posted on 09/06/2009 4:21:04 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

7 posted on 09/06/2009 4:31:36 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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To: Daffynition

http://newyork.seriouseats.com/images/20090818pickledogsbark.jpg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=29I4VRf5E-g


8 posted on 09/06/2009 5:20:42 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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9 posted on 09/06/2009 6:21:58 PM PDT by Daffynition (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.)
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To: JoeProBono
LOL..."SHAZAM!"
10 posted on 09/06/2009 6:23:11 PM PDT by Daffynition (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.)
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yuck, who puts ketchup on a hot dog?


11 posted on 09/06/2009 6:32:20 PM PDT by DejaJude
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To: DejaJude
I know. It's a crime.


12 posted on 09/06/2009 6:36:17 PM PDT by Daffynition (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.)
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13 posted on 09/06/2009 6:44:27 PM PDT by JoeProBono (A closed mouth gathers no feet)
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14 posted on 09/06/2009 7:17:37 PM PDT by Daffynition (A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.)
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