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From: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
Newsgroups: net.suicide
Subject: Re: twinkies
Message-ID: <2444@sdcrdcf.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 6-Nov-85 10:32:22 EST
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Posted: Wed Nov  6 10:32:22 1985
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Reply-To: barryg@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Lee Gold)
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The way I recall it, Dan White's lawyer claimed that the defendant was in
a state of diminished capacity when he shot the Mayor of San Francisco
and a councilman.  One of the signs of that change in personality was that
a formerly athletic man who had always kept himself in great condition had
recently taken to pigging out on twinkies and was now obese.  In other words,
Twinkies was never alleged to have caused White's psychological condition.
I do agree that after the trial, moronic reporters summarized the defense as
"Dan White went crazy due to eating too many Twinkies" -- but surely
usenetters should be brighter than that.

--Lee gold