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On Mon, 23 Mar 2015 17:37:30 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

>A couple years ago I was in a discount grocery store in Niagara Falls
>and I spotted a woman pulling a fast one with bundles of asparagus. It
>is the only time I have ever seen asparagus sold by the bundle rather
>than by the pound. She would grab two bundles of asparagus and then
>very deftly remove about 1/3 of the spears from one bundle and slip them
>into the other and then return the small one to the bunker. She did that
>with a number of them. I dropped a dime on her on the way out, telling
>the cashier what I had seen and leaving a description of the woman...
>the only Phillippino in the store.


Soon to be a major motion pictu The Asparagus Thief.

Smuggled into this country as a child and coerced into a life of
crime, living on discount asparagus and too much of it ... or was this
just her cover story?

J.