Paper chase
The case of the Lake View litterbug lives on.
For several years, readers will recall, Edward and Cheryl Patton woke up most days to find a used coffee cup or two on their front lawn, eventually collecting hundreds of the cups.
With the help of neighbors, Hamburg police caught Larry Pope, a disgruntled former co-worker of Cheryl’s, in the act in April 2021.
Pope was charged with harassment and cited for a traffic infraction. The charges were dismissed after he apologized to the Pattons, reimbursed them for their expenses and performed community service.
The saga drew widespread attention after The Buffalo News reported Pope’s arrest.
It came up again last week in this article on the Gothamist news site:
“Greenpoint mystery solved: serial litterer was NYPD sergeant”
In that similarly odd case, someone driving in a car in the Greenpoint neighborhood of Brooklyn spread reams of paper along a single, tree-lined block nearly every Sunday morning for four years.
“A serial litterer was precisely slicing pages from old Reader’s Digests, Bibles, junk mail and 1970s porn magazines before dumping them” on the street, the Gothamist reported.
Surveillance video led investigators to a New York City police sergeant.
His motive remains unclear.
His punishment? Losing one vacation day.
A whole lotta Linda
The United States was crawling with people named Linda from the late 1930s to the close of the ‘60s, when the name began to fall out of favor.
It became trendy again two weekends ago in Niagara Falls, when 45 members of the Linda Club gathered on the American side of the mighty cataracts.
It was the latest annual gathering of a club started in 1987 by a woman named Linda who thought it would be fun to socialize with others who shared the moniker.
As the group grew, members decided 25 years ago to travel someplace different for annual gatherings.
“Niagara Falls has been on several Linda bucket lists, and they begged…
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