Largo Police DeptThe man they call Plasma PatThe city of Largo is looking for an alleged con man who's got it all. The bitchin' nickname, "Plasma Pat." The elegantly simple, three-step scam: 1) pretend to be a Wal-Mart employee, 2) offer customer deal on a plasma TV, 3) pocket cash. And he's an insufferable braggart -- Plasma Pat says he's hoodwinked 30,000 Floridians, including some of your Fort Lauderdale neighbors. Said a Largo lieutenant:"He's bragged about how many victims he thinks he's ha
"When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, 'Get the chefs! Get the chefs!'"
-- Calvin Trillin (in the New Yorker)
