From: six@omni.voicenet.com Date: Fri, 19 May 1995 13:31:42 -0400 (EDT) X-Sender: six@omni To: wanqui-boys@swcp.com Subject: First it was the LA riots and now this... (fwd) Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII content-length: 4768 Status: RO ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Thu, 18 May 1995 23:30:49 -0700 (PDT) From: Patrick Hess To: creeter@corp.sun.com, jhess@mgtsciences.com, rstack@chicago.com, peterc007@aol.com, isky@corp.sun.com, six@omni.voicenet.com, kricket@unm.edu, tcasey@adobe.com, hroblee@adobe.com, greg@entertv.com, chris@mgtsciences.com, chisolm@mhpcc.edu, se5@spruce.evansville.edu Subject: First it was the LA riots and now this... "Muttley once said:" > > > IMPORTANT BREAKING SESAME STREET NEWS! > > > > AP Online > > AP 11/17 2:55 EDT V055 > > Copyright 1994. All Rights Reserved. > > NEW YORK > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Big Bird, the famed friendly muppet of Seseme > > Street, has apparently gone on a rampage. Several muppets are known > > to be dead; including Prarie Dawn, Oscar the Grouch, and Bert -- long > > time friend, roommate, and occasional lover of Ernie. The bird is now > > reportedly holding Maria hostage in a five floor tenement near > > Hooper's Store. New York City Police SWAT teams have surrounded the > > building. > > > > AP Online > > AP 11/17 4:26 EDT V743 > > Copyright 1994. All Rights Reserved. > > NEW YORK > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Big Bird, Seseme Street muppet, is reported dead at > > this hour after an hour-and-a-half hostage standoff with New York > > City Police. Kermit-The-Frog, Seseme Street Muppet on the scene, > > reports that as police stormed the five story tenament building where > > the bird was holding Maria hostage, Big Bird flew out an upper story > > window at them in a Kamikaze-like attack. Police SWAT units brought > > down the bird in a hail of automatic weapons fire. Dead are: Prairie > > Dawn, Oscar the Grouch, Bert, and Big Bird. There is no information > > available concerning Maria. > > > > AP Online > > AP 11/17 8:47 EDT V246 > > Copyright 1994. All Rights Reserved. > > NEW YORK > > NEW YORK (AP) -- The Professor and his assistant, Beaker, muppet > > chemists, have reportedly found angel dust in Big Bird's feed. Big > > Bird was killed by Police early this morning after the bird went on a > > killing spree on Seseme Street. Maria, taken hostage during the > > ordeal, has survived unharmed. Three muppets were killed by the bird: > > Prarie Dawn (a friendly, pig-tailed muppet girl-child), Oscar the > > Grouch (a green garbage-can dwelling grumpy muppet) and Bert (the > > famous gay paper clip collector and pigeon friend). Authorities in > > the area report that the bad seed was purchased at the local > > Hooper's. > > > > AP Online > > AP 11/17 11:15 EDT V543 > > Copyright 1994. All Rights Reserved. > > NEW YORK > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Police are asking all motorists and humans to stay > > away from Seseme Street today as tensions are running high among the > > muppets. Many reportedly are outraged at the tainted food supply and > > at how the police handled the hostage situation. According to > > bystanders on the scene at the time, Mr. Snuffalupagus pleaded with > > police to be allowed to talk Big Bird down. Instead, police stormed > > the building with deadly results. Ernie is said to be despondent at > > the loss of his good buddy Bert. > > > > AP Online > > AP 11/17 17:25 EDT V927 > > Copyright 1994. All Rights Reserved. > > NEW YORK > > NEW YORK (AP) -- Violence erupted again on Seseme Street at five > > o'clock this afternoon. As thousands of humans driving home took a > > sightseeing tour of the scene of Big Bird's deadly rampage, muppets > > became enraged. Hundreds of muppets, large and small, stalked the > > streets and surrounded humans in their cars. In at least one case, > > ten muppets pulled a motorist from his car and beat him with large, > > styrofome letters. Police again arrived on the scene in force. At > > this hour, quiet is restored -- but tensions are very high. > > > >_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ > >_/_/_/_/ > > > > > > > -- > -- > > > -- > +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ > | Muttley, a.k.a | "Soaring higher with every treason, never justify | > | Michael P. Simone | never reason. You've got much to think about." | > | msimone@mcs.kent.edu | | > | (216) 686-0866 | -Letters to Cleo, "Here and Now" | > +-----------------------+-----------------------------------------------------+ > Muttley the Wonder Dog's House of Delights! > http://nimitz.mcs.kent.edu/~msimone >