Careful What You Say

In Brooklyn last week, Huckster Stanley Meola blew up when a cop told him to move his pushcart off famed Fulton Street. Meola, an ex-Army cook, bawled: "I fought the war for the likes of you. I refuse to move on!" That night in court he discovered his mistake. The cop was an ex-Army captain of infantry, just back from four major campaigns in the South Pacific.

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