Joan Rivers Protests Costco Book Ban, Handcuffs Herself to Shopping Cart

[shian]

[quote]Costco literally has a captive audience in Joan Rivers—and not in a good way.
The motormouthed comedian and E! Fashion Police host found herself sparring with both the warehouse-chain giant and local police Tuesday after she handcuffed herself to a shopping cart at a Burbank outlet to protest the store's refusal to carry her new book.
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Rivers claims that the chain banned her book I Hate Everything...Starting With Me because of its racy content, and so she took matters into her own hands.
The funnylady stormed the store and, accompanied by a team of assistants, brought along copies of the book, which she peddled directly to customers and autographed.
She also brought her own megaphone, shouting protests like "Costco should not be like Nazi Germany! Next thing they'll be burning the bible."
She later reportedly said, "This is a store that sells 300 rolls of toilet paper at the same time, and I say any customer that buys 300 rolls of toilet paper deserves a funny book to sit on the toilet and read." Touché!

Rivers then approached a customer pushing a shopping cart and proceeded to handcuff herself to it.
Local police were called to the store and eventually escorted her out, according to published reports, and no arrests or citations were made.
"It is truly about the First Amendment," she later told a local ABC News affiliate. "This is America, and I don't want to see censorship."
Consider us chained to that message.[/quote]

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Its just a book, for god sake.

[jakedog]

[video=youtube;7WHptG35EWU]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7WHptG35EWU[/video]

[Colliseemoe2]

What a crazy bitch.

[Colliseemoe2]

Wait, I don't get it, did the police escort her out while she was still handcuffed to the shopping cart? That would be hilarious.

[greenbandit]

She forgets that Costco can choose what it wants to sell and what it does not. Nothing illegal or Nazi about it.

[KILLTHIS]

So... let me get this straight:
Crazy bitch (CB) writes an E-book.
Costco decides to stop selling CB's E-book.
CB then decides to make a wuzz about it and handcuffs herself to a shopping cart.

YOU GET NOTHING.

[MarkG06]

[quote]"It is truly about the First Amendment," she later told a local ABC News affiliate. "This is America, and I don't want to see censorship."[/quote]

I don't think free speech means I'm upset that I'm not getting money from Costco.

[gamefreek76]

[QUOTE=Colliseemoe;37152292]Wait, I don't get it, did the police escort her out while she was still handcuffed to the shopping cart? That would be hilarious.[/QUOTE]

Police carry handcuff keys.

[Computermaster]

Attention whore.

[gamefreek76]

[QUOTE=KILLTHIS;37152905]So... let me get this straight:
Crazy bitch (CB) writes an E-book.
Costco decides to stop selling CB's E-book.
CB then decides to make a wuzz about it and handcuffs herself to a shopping cart.

YOU GET NOTHING.[/QUOTE]

Actually she gets a lot of publicity. It's a pretty genius move.

[Nerts]

[QUOTE=Colliseemoe;37152292]Wait, I don't get it, did the police escort her out while she was still handcuffed to the shopping cart? That would be hilarious.[/QUOTE]

Taser her, dump her in the cart, go looking for a hardware store.