from the Atherton (CA) police blotter

[Laurence Horn]

At 6:41 AM -0800 10/30/06, Arnold M. Zwicky wrote:
>in the Palo Alto Daily News, Saturday 10/28/06, blotter for the
>preceding Thursday:
>
>Oak Grove Avenue at Middlefield Road, 6:24 p.m.: Someone reported
>that a man was handing out strange objects.  The objects turned out
>to be Bibles.
>
Well, we are talking Bay Area, after all...

LH

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