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Abbie Hoffman — Part 26
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injunction against the city, his name was Lynch, Judge
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Lynch, He did, right. there It was kinda tough because
he was Mayor Daley's ex law partner, you know, and it was
always like working out that way. So we didn't get that.
I call up Dave Stall cause I try to be helpful. I said,
“Hey Dave. I'11 let you in on a secret. You know that LSD
thing in the drinking water and all those troops ovt there?
Like, you guys musta seen water in the streets or somethin’.
Like, it can't be done. Why don't you call up your
scientists, I sean you own thes 222, ask then." He says
I know, we checked it out, but we aren't taking any chances
anyway. They aren't taking any chances, Ha. Power.
Nominate a pig. It's illegal to have an animal in the
streets of Chicago unless you're Spiro Agnew and the
animal's an elephant, then it's OK. He did it. Pig knowed,
9 they busted the pig, see. We had this press conference
and he said you turn this pig loose in three hours, we run
a lion for president. So the cops, r don't know them, they
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must Lave got sone of that acid, so they run up to the zoo
and they got the lion's den, Four cops did it. Crazy
mother fuckers. Choice of insanities.
‘You think I'm kiddin’, huh? This is from one of
their best journels out there, the New York Times. You
know people say, did you read the newspaper this morning.
Well, some people say did you read the Times this morning;
this is a whole different thing. Like, it's a nation's
security blanket, ail the news that's fit to print and
everything, you know. I don't read it but I watch the ads
on TV in New York, and they say even though you don't read
it all, it's nice to know its there. What's so nice about
it? I don't know, they don't even have comics. They got
times though. UPI ~ a house subcoamittee reported today
that spies are collecting information so fast that their
chiefs do not have time to read it. Then it goes on to say
how they lost the Pueblo, Vietnam, Korth Dakota, and « few
other things. Here's another one. It's another serious guy
down here. Atlanta AP = an Atlanta mortician has adopted
a drive-in approach for busy persons who want to drive by
and view a deceased friend. Hershel] Thornton is building
five windows in a row as an extension of his funeral home.
Each window is six feet long arid will contain 2 body in its
coffin, The display will face a driveway on the side of
the home located on a busy street. So many people want to
come by and see the remains of a relative or friend, Thornton
said, but they just don't have the time. This way, the
mourner can drive by and just keep on going. That's out of
sight. Bullet-proof glass encloses gallery at stock exchange.
Seems sone hippies went down to throw out money, ten thousand
dollars. They bullet-proofed the whole thing the next week.
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