From the Olympian online, December 11, 2014, Neville Bell, owner of New Harvest Nursery

on Kaiser Road, Northwest, reported the theft of a farm implement from the Nursery's

property on Wednesday night.

The alleged male perpetrator appeared to have a large buck knife protruding from his

waistband when he emerged from his shed shortly before midnight.

Bell made a statement that the perpetrator, quote, only took a hoe and then he threw

the knife on the ground like he didn't want it anymore.

I don't care about the hoe, but he was a scary person.

He looked crazy and he walked so slow and weird I was afraid to do any kind of confronting.

He said the man walked off into the woods and by the time police came, they were unable

to locate him.

My name is Joel Spanauer.

I met Samantha in 2013 at a screening of Cummins Sea, the brutal anti-war film by Elim

Climov.

It was the kind of screening only die hard cinephiles attend, folding chairs in the

basement of a museum.

I decided to try on this intriguing stranger, my famous move of sideling up creepily after

the credits and just sort of lurking silently nearby as she drew coffee from an urn into a

Styrofoam cup.

She offered me a week's smile and I attempted what was for me a ricklessly bold conversational

camp at saying that ending, huh?

She had already re-bundled against the cold outside and was almost drowning in a huge green

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