Burglar Left Feces on Front Porch in Owings Mills

Posted on October 2, 2012 by atomictv

After stealing statues, picture frames and dolls, a burglar left feces on the front porch of an Owings Mills home.

By Marc Shapiro (Owings Mills Patch, 10/1/2012)

A burglar who stole several items from an Owings Mills home left something for the homeowners: feces.

According to Baltimore County Police, a burglar stole a crystal bowl, two crystal golf statues, two picture frames, four or five porcelain dolls and left feces on the front porch of a home on a private road in the Caves Valley Golf Club area in Owings Mills on Sunday, Sept. 30.

Police believe the burglar is somebody known to the victim, but that feces have not been involved in previous incidents.

“Feces on the front porch?” said Lt. Stephen Doarnberger, assistant commander of the Baltimore County Police’s Franklin Precinct. “That’s new.”

The incident occurred between 6:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m., according to a police report.


“A turd, mama, a turd!”

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Hampden is the Hipster Haven, But What’s a Hipster?

Posted on October 2, 2012 by atomictv

Benn Ray of the Hampden Village Merchants Association talks to The List about Hampden’s listing in Forbes as the 15th hippest hipster neighborhood:

America’s Hippest Hipster Neighborhoods: #15. Hampden, Baltimore, MD

(Forbes, 9/20/2012)

“Home to the annual “Hon Fest,” where women tease their hair in 1960s-style beehives, Hampden embodies retro cool. Bars, restaurants and independent coffee houses co-mingle with two-story rowhouses harking back to the neighborhood’s days of mills and factories. Every year the neighborhood celebrates Christmas with a “Miracle on 34th Street” decoration spectacle in which residents adorn their abodes with thousands of lights.”

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The Official Wild Bill Hagy Orioles Hat

Posted on October 1, 2012 by atomictv

“What the well dressed Oriole fan will be wearing this season.”

(via The City That Breeds)

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Flea-market Renoir Allegedly Was Stolen From Baltimore Museum; Auction Canceled

Posted on September 28, 2012 by atomictv

By Ian Shapira, (The Washington Post, 9/27/2012)

The lore of the landscape was as irresistible to its owner as its beautiful brush strokes: Renoir had painted it, Baltimore collector Saidie May said, for his mistress on a linen napkin at a Paris restaurant along the Seine.

So how did the small painting wind up in a $7 box of junk at a West Virginia flea market more than eight decades after May’s ex-husband, Herbert L. May, purchased “On the Shore of the Seine” from a Paris gallery in 1926?

The mystery, which generated headlines this month when an Alexandria auction house announced that it would sell what it believes is that Renoir, became clearer this week when a Washington Post reporter entered the library at the Baltimore Museum of Art. In a box full of Saidie May’s letters and artwork receipts lay one major clue: records showing that she had lent the painting to the museum in 1937. The discovery startled museum officials, who had already said the flea-market Renoir never entered their institution.

Continue reading “Flea-market Renoir Allegedly Was Stolen From Baltimore Museum; Auction Canceled” at The Washington Post.

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