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Batavia police seek help in credit card larceny investigation

By Howard B. Owens

Press release from Batavia Police Department:

The Batavia Police Department is investigating the larceny of several credit cards from the Dollar Tree located on West Main Street on April 20th. One of the cards was then used at another business in the area.

If anyone recognizes the subjects in the photos, or has any information related to this case, please contact Det. Kevin Czora at 585-345-6311.  Information may also be left on the police department’s Confidential Tip Line at 585-345-6370.

RICHARD L. HALE

With all the giveaway programs this state has, no children should ever go hungry...why steal from the public, when you can steal from the state...LEGALLY !!!

May 15, 2011, 1:06am Permalink
Mary E DelPlato

programs you cant receive from because your income is just above the required amount..with increasing gas, food, taxes, etc...ppl who live beneath their means will seek to do "wrong" to survive...its crossed my mind a few times....desperate ppl do desperate things in desperate times ....these are desperate times...LOL richard..true that..
but the look on her face.
or they also could be drug addicts..i guess.

May 15, 2011, 8:14am Permalink
C. M. Barons

"...Can't judge a book by its cover."

Vsevolod Pudovkin, early Soviet film director, attempted to catalog character types to enhance realism in his films. He studied responses interpreting character from photographs of people. Hollywood had stars; Leningrad had the masses. Soviet orthodoxy prohibited exulting individuals above the crowd. Pudovkin theorized that the people in his films would better fit their roles if they looked like the character they played.

His research was ignored by Hollywood, but embraced by Madison Avenue. The ad agencies recognized that the public would more readily buy into ads if the actors/models resonated with social prejudice. In actuality, Madison Avenue reinforced America's social stereotypes by flaunting them in newspapers, magazines and television.

Television in general, budget conscious, followed suit in its programming. Shows like Amos & Andy portrayed blacks in the same vein as Minstrel Shows, playing black characters as white people envisioned blacks. Modern television may have sidelined the shtick of black buffoons- trading that image for blacks as criminals. Case in point: COPS which focuses on urban crime, in effect creating a repetitive, out-of-context, monolithic image of black culture. ...a stereotype.

Thanks to television programming, one can recognize the intentions of people caught on security camera, judge the safe boarding of a plane by profiling Semitic-types and vote against high-speed rail. A train hasn't played a part in American movies since Cary Grant sparked Eva Marie Saint in "North by Northwest," 1959.

Lyndsay Lohan stole a $2500 necklace from Kamofie & Co. This is the The Dollar Tree.

May 15, 2011, 2:04pm Permalink
Billie Owens

Plenty of films involving trains have been made since 1959. But that same year, the classic "Some Like It Hot," came out, with Marilyn Monroe, and in drag, Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis.

In 1969, there was a film with two impossibly handsome actors who were known to rob trains and banks: "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid."

In 1973, "Emperor of the North," with Ernest Borgnine, Lee Marvin and Keith Carradine. Borgnine's obsession is to keep hobos off his train.

In 1974, "Murder on the Orient Express," Agatha Christie's crime mystery with Albert Finney, "Betty" Bacall and Ingrid Bergman.

In 1987, two comedies "Planes, Trains and Automobiles" and "Throw Momma from the Train."

In 1993, "Schindler's List."

2004, Tom Hanks' "The Polar Bear Express," an animated Christmas film.

In 2007, the train-hopping character "Woody" in the Bob Dylan biopic "I'm Not There."

In 2008, the Academy Award winning "Slumdog Millionaire" had many trains shots.

Et al.

May 15, 2011, 3:22pm Permalink

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