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01/13/2017
New way to increase newspaper readership: Man buys 1000 papers to hide his DUI arrest.
I guess no one told him about the Internet. An upstate New York man has achieved fame for his misguided attempt to do precisely the opposite — buying roughly 1,000 copies of his local newspaper in order to cover up his drunk-driving arrest.
Joseph Talbot, a bank executive in Wayne County, New York, was arrested on December 29 for driving under the influence. During his arrest, he reportedly complained that his mugshot would also appear in the local paper, the Times of Wayne County, which routinely publishes details on DUI arrests, including booking photos, as part of its police blotter feature.
In fact, Talbot was so concerned about this happening, he initially resisted being fingerprinted or photographed, incurring additional criminal charges before he was fingerprinted and photographed anyway.
Unable to prevent the newspaper from publishing his mugshot, Talbot did the next best thing — touring as many local newsstands as he could early the next morning and buying up all the available papers at a cost of $1.25 per copy.
