Who says the crazies live only in Florida? A news item from my home state of Maryland

[Tommy_Carcetti]

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/07112008/rectop163905_32143.shtml

Defendant in post office dispute charged with threatening commissioners
Friday, July 11, 2008
By ERICA MITRANO


A dispute over a dilapidated lot in Sunderland, the site of the old post office, has taken a bizarre turn with the defendant in that case facing charges that he threatened and harassed two county commissioners, allegedly sending one of them pieces of a dismembered vulture in the mail.

Curtis Portland Litten, 45, of Dunkirk was charged in May with stalking Commissioner Linda Kelley (R) and repeatedly dumping trash in her yard; in June, charges of threatening a state official, possessing wild birds and mutilating an animal were added in connection with letters and a package he allegedly mailed to Commissioner Jerry Clark (R).

Litten has been sued by the county in Calvert County District Court in an attempt to force him to clean up debris at his property at 6401 Southern Maryland Blvd., the site of the Sunderland Post Office which closed last year.

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In late March, suspicious workers at the Huntingtown Post Office opened a package addressed to Clark and found ‘‘the head and feet of an American Black Vulture along with a note stating, ‘Gerald Clark we know what a sic U R,’” documents state, along with a drawing of a five-point star and ‘‘a picture of a white male with what appears to be blood on his face.”

[TZ]

1. For some reason I thought the town involved was gonna be

Dundaulk......:D

[Tommy_Carcetti]

3. Dundalk, Dunkirk

Point is, there's a Dun involved in there somewhere.

[elshiva]

4. What is it with Dundalk? Why do other Marylanders pick

on folks from Dundalk? There are assholes everywhere. :shrug:

[Tommy_Carcetti]

6. Don't knock the Dundalk!

That place is true blue Balmer all the way. It's got a character and feel all of its own. It's not a pretty place, but it is a real place.

Now Dunkirk? That's just a couple of shopping centers surrounded by McMansion tract housing developments. You can go ahead and knock the Dunkirk.

[LisaM]

2. But does that REALLY compare with the guy in Florida

who, IIRC, stole an ambulance, dressed like a doctor, and was stopped driving around with a dead deer on the gurney inside?

[DarkTirade]

5. Oh, they're all mad there.