Professor Accused of Stealing Manure

[emad]

Wed Apr 6, 4:27 PM ET Strange News - AP

ROCKPORT, Mass. - A Harvard economics professor has been accused of neglecting the standard market practice of paying for goods and services by trying to steal a truckload of manure from a horse farmer.

Stable manager Phillip Casey says Martin Weitzman, Harvard University's Ernest E. Monrad Professor of Economics, has been stealing manure from Charlie Lane's Rockport farm for years.

Police said said Casey found Weitzman on the property last Friday, so he blocked in Weitzman's pickup truck and called police. Weitzman got angry, Casey said, then offered to pay for the manure he'd already taken. But Casey said he wouldn't budge because he wanted the thefts to stop.

"He offered me $20 for it and then $40 for it," Casey said.
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=817&ncid=757&e=10&u=/ap/20050406/ap_on_fe_st/manure_theft

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1. I guess that's a demonstration of Republican market economics...

[whistle]

2. That's total horse shit!

[CottonBear]

3. Most horse people will give the manure away for free

if you come and get it yourself. Why would you try to steal it?

I scoop horse poo every day. Believe me, they make a lot!

edit: I see that the farm sells the manure for $35 a truckload and also uses it to fertilize a pasture.

I suppose in a more urban area that the manure is a valuable commodity. $35 dollars a truckload is a bargain.

[emad]

4. Horse-shit fetishist? or is the guy who said women's brains are

smaller so they're less smart/high up in Harvard University seniority/pay league?-

[forgethell]

7. Different guy. and

the guy that said it didn't say what you thought he did.

[Hugin]

5. Oooh, Sorry... Thought this thread had something to do with cable news.

n/t

[forgethell]

6. I knew there

was a lot of shit coming out of Harvard. Now I know where it came from.

[atommom]

8. Was he just too shy to *ask* for the manure? I'm sure he could

have gotten some for free. Now everyone at Harvard will be telling horseshit jokes behind his back for years!