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Klepto's Chinese takeout
New York Post ^ | April 10, 2011 | CYNTHIA R. FAGEN

Posted on 04/10/2011 1:43:52 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement

For a Vietnamese émigré accused of robbing only Chinese people, familiarity breeds contempt.

But then Hanoi-born Ha Vasko, 68 -- a slight woman whose toothpick frame vanishes into her brown drab Rikers Island jail uniform -- is not your typical pickpocket.

The serial thief usually flies Delta from Melbourne, Fla., where she lives richly with her golfing American husband in a $400,000 waterfront home, to New York City's cacophonous Chinatown with only one thing on her mind.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: chinese; napl; vasko; vietnamese
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To: dixiechick2000
$400,000 waterfront home

Probably a drainage pond or a canal - all over in that area...those cookie-cutter gated communities have waterfront "features"

21 posted on 04/11/2011 12:46:55 PM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: Cyber Liberty

Yes, but it was NORTH Viet Nam—Hanoi—in 1972.

“Hanoi Jane” Fonda visited Hanoi in July 1972.

December, 1972, we sent the largest B-52 bombing missions of the war against Hanoi & Haiphong, in addition to the ‘regular’ bomb runs throughout that year.


22 posted on 04/11/2011 1:19:35 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Made in America, by proud American citizens, in 1946.)
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To: ApplegateRanch

Ah! I see Cyber Liberty isn’t reading carefully before posting again. You’re right...as an American, he should have been far away from Hanoi until the late ‘80’s.


23 posted on 04/11/2011 1:38:04 PM PDT by Cyber Liberty (Oh, well, any excuse to buy a new gun is good enough for me.)
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To: Slings and Arrows

“I suspect it means that most journalists are as ignorant of geography as they are of economics.”

And, history!


24 posted on 04/11/2011 11:45:18 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: dixiechick2000

Agreed.


25 posted on 04/11/2011 11:51:56 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows (You can't have Ingsoc without an Emmanuel Goldstein.)
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To: stainlessbanner

I guess all that is required is a drainage pond to be considered waterfront.

But, why? Why would drainage pond waterfront property be so expensive?

Florida is not exactly on the forefront of the leading edge of the real estate comeback...of which there is none at present.

Does that sentence make sense?


26 posted on 04/11/2011 11:52:50 PM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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To: dixiechick2000; stainlessbanner
I went to a friend's "lakefront" condo one time and the "lake" is a man made pond, not big at all. (I grew up near Lake George, NY, which is 32 miles long, so you can imagine my surprise when I saw that "lake".)

Down here, waterfront could mean a house on the river, an ocean-front condo (for that price), or a house with river access, i.e. on an inlet or canal.

Anything on the water, the real water, will be costly, even if it's not that great.

27 posted on 04/12/2011 12:33:47 PM PDT by synbad600
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To: synbad600

I am from the South, and grew up with a lake front summer cabin. It was a cabin, for sure, but it was on what was at the time the largest man made lake in the country, and the entire property was privately held. So, it was pretty expensive.

When we lived on the NC coast, I was well aware of the cost of “waterfront” property. I’ve lived in Florida, too, and know the state pretty well. But, to think that one could get just any kind of “waterfront” home for that price, at this time in our economy, totally stumps me. Especially in Florida.


28 posted on 04/13/2011 12:11:11 AM PDT by dixiechick2000 ("First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win." - Gandhi)
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