Salt Lake City Costco Removes Tomatoes Ahead Of Palin Event

[meegbear]

A Costco in Salt Lake City, Utah reportedly removed all of its tomatoes ahead of a Sarah Palin book tour event, after a man was arrested for attempting to hit Palin with a tomato at an earlier event in Minnesota.

According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Costco management was "determined" to avoid another tomato-throwing incident, and resorted to removing all of the tomatoes from the store.

This extreme measure followed a December 7 incident in which a man tried to hit Palin with a tomato at a Mall Of America event, but missed and hit a police officer instead.

http://tpmlivewire.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/12/salt-lake-city-costco-removes-tomatoes-ahead-of-palin-event.php?ref=fpblg

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It's a big store so there's plenty of other things to throw (in bulk!)

[JVS]

1. How about coconuts?

[Gregorian]

19. Since she's not an invertebrate that'll be just fine.

I'm sure you'll get the reference since the octopus video was posted about ten times here over the last few days.

[Ganja Ninja]

2. There's always canned tomatoes.

:shrug:

[DJ13]

9. Only if you leave them IN the can

[Mari333]

3. so, people will throw cauliflowers and squash instead?

unbelievable.

what about the pies?

[jobycom]

7. You could start a thread on what could be thrown instead.

Bear repellant, to protect the stock market from her. Nuts, because she is. Bananas, for the same reason. Tires, because her routine is tired. Onions, because even when she's serious it sounds like an Onion article. Toasters, because she would burn the country, and because she is toast.

[jobycom]

4. I read that about eight times to be sure it didn't say "The Onion."

:rofl:

[donco]

5. Costco has some pretty

big pineapples.

[Cleita]

6. I think they ought to remove the cream pies and the eggs too. n/t

[notadmblnd]

8. Kiwi. What about those?

I hate kiwi. AFIC their only purpose is throwing. But hell, they couldn't have pulled the entire produce department, could they?

[Chisox08]

10. They didn't pull the eggs

:evilgrin:

[DrDan]

11. must be getting advice from TSA

This is like the airport shoe-search - it will catch all possible terrorist events.

[HopeHoops]

12. Super soaker time!

Fill it with ketchup.

[arcadian]

13. This story sounds like bullshit

[HopeHoops]

14. Why does Sarah Palin hate tomatoes? Does she hate ALL nightshades?

Or is it that she simply hates.

[MineralMan]

15. Sarah doesn't want the competition from any other tomatoes.

You really have to be of a certain age to understand what I mean, I think.

Sarah's one hot tomato...in her mind.

[dembotoz]

16. find that a little hard to believe.

salt lake city is such a progressive hot bed.

[damntexdem]

17. Got eggs?

Are rotten one's discounted? ;-)

[newtothegame]

18. This'll get 'em on our side. Pretty "progressive" to throw things.

That along with calling them "Repukes," we're the poster children for civil and adult political debate.