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Old 10-24-2021, 05:41 PM
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Originally Posted by LateBoomer View Post
**************.com you'll get the crime stories. and you'll note how many of them are committed not by Villagers but by people on the outside. and given how many people live here now. 140,000? It's an astonishingly small number and some of the crimes are kinda humorous. Today they talk about some woman from Leesburg who lifted a $36 bracelet from a TV boutique. It is what it is. in SF, you can't even get prosecuted for less than $1,000. so if the Daily Sun isn't enough of a dirt paper, so be it. can always read about the crime on line.
Pretty much agree with you, but, the line "isn't enough of a dirt paper" ? That might be a little to emotional and unfair really. I don't know that person who originally asked, but I think they might have been looking for what so many of us were used to in the papers from the locals we came from... mainly, not "DIRT" at all (if you mean like innuendo ? ) but just a simple, straightforward, feature that prints the daily police incident report (often called "blotter") without "dirt" or any kind of emotionally laden language. That's not much to ask of a home town paper really ?