The headline made me click the link, and the lead made me blog it. (I confess I didn’t actually read the story, because I doubt anything could live up to that kind of an introduction.)
A crackpot Times Square performer who was once busted making anti-Semitic slurs while dressed as Elmo admitted Wednesday he tried to extort $2 million from the Girl Scouts. —NY Daily News
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RT @DennisJerz: Awesome headline of the week: “Anti-Semitic Times Square Elmo admits to Girl Scout extortion attempt” http://t.co/p6ChIdErYD