Posted on 08/02/2009 2:15:25 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Pastor Inqvist of the Lake Wobegon Lutheran Church would be shocked: Thieves have struck author Garrison Keillor's St. Paul, Minn., bookstore, officials say.
Video surveillance tapes showed a man and woman entering Keillor's store about 1:20 a.m. Thursday, making off with $3,000 from the safe of Common Good Books, store manager Martin Schmutterer told the St. Paul Pioneer Press.
"They were very calm about it," he said after posting still photos of the burglars online on the bookstore's blog page. Schmutterer said the pair smashed a window in a coffee shop above the store, then made their way downstairs to loot a safe.
Asked if Keillor, the celebrated author and host of the long-running public radio show "A Prairie Home Companion," on which Pastor Inqvist is a running character, had seen the video, Schmutterer said he had. He told the Pioneer Press the creator of the innocent, fictional town of Lake Wobegon didn't say much after seeing it.
"(Keillor is) very calm about it, but I wouldn't want to put words in his mouth," he said.
“Common Good” bookstore, eh?
Well, in the spirit of Garrison Keilor’s leftist liberal personality and philosophy, please allow me to offer this bit of wisdom:
“Thieves respect property. They merely wish the property to become their property that they may more perfectly respect it.”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
To crack the safe they must have been “above average” thieves
Lots of thieves in Washington. I would start the investigation there.
Yeah, why not spread the wealth being Democrats won’t do it voluntarily?
Look for Keillor to blame Norm Coleman, as per usual.
I’ll bet the woman was strong, and the man was good looking...
“They were very calm about it,”
Of course they were. Just doing what was their right to do; redistributing wealth.
Red on Red.
$3,000? At his income level, Kiellor probably loses that much to the thieves in Washington every week, and thinks nothing of it.
Well, they were “above average”, but still started out a bit shy. They would not have been able to break in at all had it not been for the Powder Milk Biscuits...
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