Gentleman vandalized statue of Betwitched's Samantha in Salem

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Still angry about the mid-series switch in Darrens I guess.

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I suppose if your goal is to go to jail, vandalizing property is a pretty safe way to do that. It’s not exactly victimless but it’s not far from that, either. I do wonder if the “resisting arrest” was due to either being drunk or maybe the cops didn’t want to arrest him for only vandalization and he had to step it up a notch?

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Conservatives reacting to the news of a statue getting vandalized but it’s a statue about a witch character from a show that was about witchcraft

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But the witch was a blonde white woman…

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Unlike the portion of the local economy devoted to witch related tourism, esp around Halloween.

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It was Aunt Agatha all along.

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Tourism sure is a strange beast.

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Hopefully at least part of his punishment will involve community service helping clean the statue he vandalized. That would only be appropriate.

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I understand Vlad the Impaler’s castle is basically a Dracula-themed attraction these days too.

Apparently there is no human rights atrocity that can’t be appropriated into a tourist trap given enough time.

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I do get that the concern about the making light of an historic tragedy.

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So this guy did this simply because he needed his basic needs met and that meant getting arrested and going to jail.

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You do realize the original darren died forcing a change

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He was in too poor health to continue the series, but Dick York didn’t die until 1992.

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Google disagrees with you.

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giphy-downsized

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Tragedy + Time + Tchotchkes = Tourism

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Including the biggest genocide of all time:

My (Jewish) wife once attended a Presbyterian daycare as a kid and even at that time recognized that the playful way that Noah’s Ark was depicted as a happy gathering of animals enjoying a boat ride was masking over the fact that a vengeful god was killing nearly every living being on earth, including children and babies.

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@pesco Samantha used to “twitch” her nose but there is only one t in Bewitched

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I just assumed he was referring to the porn “parody.” Ooh, so many Dicks…

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