Stolen Comics: Graham Crackers’ Loop Store Looted12623
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 CLEVELAND, Ohio “Reverence,” photographer Lynn Johnson says, remembering the moment when she and medical staff crowded around the human face laid carefully on the operating room table before them. Just the face, a living thing, clipped away from an organ donor, not yet attached to its next recipient. “It made one question everything we know and think about identity,” Johnson says. For more than two years her friend and fellow photographer Maggie Steber had been documenting the story of Katie Stubblefield, a young Cleveland Clinic patient whose own face had been obliterated in a gunshot suicide attempt when Katie was 18. The death of another young woman made possible the facial transplant process intimately documented by Steber, Johnson, and writer Joanna Connors in National Geographic’s September 2018 issue. The operation lasted 31 hours, and it was successful. Katie has continued working on speech and facial muscles, and recently said she hopes to attend college. PHOTOGRAPH BY LYNN JOHNSON |
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| Peaceful Protesters? that's just a word these criminal groups use to hide behind. The fake outrage they cry is despicable. Buddy Brown said it best. Vote Red and Fund your local law enforcement before these anarchist groups hiding behind the fake outrage come for your comic books and property. |
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 I have a problem with fattening women up.
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| Its unfortunate the comic store got robbed. It's even more unfortunate to tie the robbery to politics. Maybe it's time for folks to create their own forums where they can spew their left, right, center, or whatever you happen to believe in and leave comics to just be comics..... |
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| . This was not a robbery, it was a looting. There’s a difference, look it up. Looting is connected to political unrest. |
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| My apologies. There is a difference between the two terms. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by CatmanAmerica @CatmanAmerica Not sure if I'm the only one catching the incredible Irony of "peaceful protesters" demanding not to be equated with rampant destruction, theft and violence. It's ironic since they are protesting police and police funding in general as a response to a the actions of a very small number of police officers. Since 80% of police officers will retire without ever firing a gun, I believe the countries thousands of independant Police Agencies would be quite happy to receive the respect of distinction and differentiation that the "peaceful protestors" are insisting on for themselves. Imagine if we burned down schools and threatened to defund education every time a student was molested by a teacher. There probably would be very few teachers or schools left in this country. |
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| . People are becoming numb to riots, fires and looting. It’s getting looter-crous. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck How I'm feeling about my hijacked thread. Thanks guys. |
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| @OGJackster At least most of the thread is still about looting. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by OGJackster True the thread was stolen. But it's not like anyone had to smash a window, the door was open lol. |
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| Looting is unacceptable, my son was sure worried when a Milwaukee protest march went down a street only a block away from his comic book store, don’t know how insurance would work in that case. I’m gonna do some research. A video record at minimum is required, I think. Being from the Pacific Northwest, and having just driven the country, I find Texas as the promised land quite humorous. Driving home over the Cascade Mountains, (which puts the Tetons to shame IMO) I realized the most beautiful part of the country happens to be where I live. Maybe everybody thinks that, though. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by doog I don't think there's much disagreement that looting in unacceptable. The disagreement is in what it will take to stop it. Some seem to believe that mild public scoldings will be enough while police operate under stand-down orders. I beg to differ. I watched it live in my city, looters with arms full of clothes jogging past police, standing in place no more than 15 feet away, who were obviously ordered to do nothing. I'm pretty sure those looters will only feel emboldened when the opportunity to loot arises again. |
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 I'd like to say I still turned out alright, but that would be a lie.
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| I hope they catch the guys, are there any updates to the story or video of the looting? | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by flanders @flanders I really question if there is any will or resources to launch any legitimate investigation at all. I suspect that in cities like Chicago the idea of investigating looting might be an old-fashioned notion that we are just holding onto. I don't know this for sure but I'm betting there will be no going into neighborhoods and interviewing witnesses and suspects. I think it will be more like "yeah, you were looted, so were 100 other businesses, nothing we can do about it, take it up with your insurance and get over it." |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck I wouldn’t trust a New York Post story as far as an armless paperboy could throw it. But don’t take my word for it, just look up this pillar of the fourth estate’s ownership. Quote: Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck My local bank depository for high grade gold has fairly decent security ...    . |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck You should be ashamed. |
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| @CatmanAmerica Quote: Originally Posted by CatmanAmerica C’mon @CatmanAmerica, that’s an easy dismissal. It’s not about the New York Post, it’s about the video. Here’s the same video in a Washington Times story Black Lives Matter crowd demands Seattle homeowners 'give up' property: 'We coming for it Also, in a Black Enterprise story Black Lives Matter Protesters Demand White Gentrifiers ‘Give Black People Back Their Homes!’ in Seattle Quote: Originally Posted by CatmanAmerica Very nice, I guess some other people are not as privileged to afford your type of depository. |
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| @CaptainCanuck I have no interest in persisting this conversation that is going nowhere; however, just wanted to point out, should you have missed it, but the "high grade gold depository" shown is meant as a joke. That is the US Bullion Depository (aka Fort Knox) for US Federal gold reserves (among other items), not "High Grade Gold (golden age comics)" as was jokingly stated. Let's not get too serious on here. I think this thread has quickly gone off the rails and run its course and should be locked at this point as it serves no further purpose if jokes become points of contention. @OGJackster Apologies for further hijacking the thread; the original intent of which was a community PSA in support of Jamie Graham and the stolen books. Here is the OP and contact information should anyone have any information that can assist in the recovery of the stolen goods. Quote: Originally Posted by OGJackster |
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| @obrie2tm Ya, I get that he posted a bad joke, that’s why I countered with my own bad joke. I think the bad jokes started here: Quote: Originally Posted by CatmanAmerica  |
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| . Here are some more stories of stolen comics during the pandemic Rare comic books worth $50K stolen in Calgary robbery Rare comic books stolen at comic book fair No Laughing Matter: $250,000 Worth of Comic Books Stolen Pow! Three arrested in theft of $250,000 worth of comic books |
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| @CaptainCanuck Understood, just trying to get this thread back on track for what we are all actually here for; gets frustrating watching these threads quickly sink. Just here to enjoy the books and our shared interest! |
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| @obrie2tm No worries, see my post above yours for more stories about stolen comics. |
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| And to also get back to the OA initial posting....... There were 7 other stores in the US that were hit with looting and theft other than Graham Crackers Comics..... for the official record. Golden Apple (LA), Hi De Hi (LA), JapanLA (LA), Challengers Comics (Chicago), Top Cut Comics (Chicago), Dreamhaven Comics (Minneapolis), Crazy Freds (La Mesa, AZ). Wonderful upstanding citizens I'm so proud to read about and call my fellow Americans  . |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CatmanAmerica I have a good friend who dismisses information this way all the time. It's like any narrative that he finds unacceptable is simply not true because it's not brought to him by his chosen media filters. It's a circular thing...He chooses media that filters out stories that could disrupt his progressive worldview...and then he can dismiss anything that makes him uncomfortable,since nothing that disrupts his worldview actually comes through his information filter. Very Orwellian. I always wonder though, when he dismisses a story is he saying that it's too crazy to be true? Would it change his worldview any if he found out it was true? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by EbaySeller Echo chambers are popular. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by CaptainCanuck  Quote: Originally Posted by EbaySeller You seem to have misread criticism directed at the known bias of the NYP's owner as a complete dismissal of the accuracy of their journalism. I don't view the world through a silo ...unless there's a missile in the silo, then I take things a bit more seriously. Being dismissive automatically assumes that a source is either right or wrong because it satisfies a preconceived notion. Informed opinions evolve through fact checking published information while investigating the biases of the source. The latter is my approach to establishing journalistic integrity. The New York Post steers the news they publish in service to an agenda; that's verifiable. Is the information posted here accurate? Probably, but without broader context it misrepresents the whole story. IOW, you can always find extreme outliers. The problem with biased journalism isn't what's published, it's what isn't published. Sensationalized journalism intentionally misleads readers, propagandizing information that is predisposed to the publisher's worldview. Rioting and looting is where police enforcement and prosecution is required to maintain order in a democratic society. Everyone here should be on the same page with that. However, to tie every violent disruptive act to the BLM movement is just as wrong as suggesting that the vast majority of folks involved in racial injustice protests are intent upon taking everyone's property away. Neither thing is true. There will always be disruptive elements in every large protest demanding reform, but that doesn't mean the cause is unjust. The looting of a Graham Crackers Comic Shop hits home for a lot of folks here, and yes, I'm sure there are folks who take advantage of protests as an opportunity, excuse or cover to commit criminal acts of mischief and theft. That said, most police reform protestors have been peaceful. . |
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| He's probably right. Most police reform protestors probably have been peaceful. Then again, most cops probably aren't what they are being singled out to be. Definitely something to consider when the new buzz word "systemic" is used for either case |
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