Word: mailboxes
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...hoax began in the fall when Nava joined the Anscombe Society and began loudly spouting his conservative views. He claimed that soon after he received an anonymous note stuffed into his mailbox in the Frist Campus Center, reading: "YOU HAVE FOUND THE WRONG CAUSE." He told University police that the threat resurfaced after he wrote a November 9th op-ed in the Princetonian decrying the ready availability of condoms on campus. A week later, he said, a third threat appeared in his mailbox. On Dec. 12, five death threats surfaced and Princeton was in an uproar...
...August day in 2007, and the mailbox was empty again...
...Warren said that PostSecret began three years ago as local community art project. Warren, then a small business owner from Germantown, Md., passed out 3000 blank postcards in the Washington, DC area, all with his address on them. “Slowly secrets began finding their way to my mailbox,” Warren said. He posted them at an exhibition soon afterward. Among the first secrets displayed was a postcard stating simply, “I’m a white guy and I like black girls.” A few days later, someone added graffiti...
...morning in March, whilepulling out of the driveway, I saw a large manila envelope bound by a rubber band to the post of my mailbox, whose broken door hangs open in a permanent expression of disbelief...
...envelope rode shotgun beside me for several miles until I opened it at a red light, using a tire-pressure gauge from the glove box, at which time my jaw, like my mailbox door, fell open in astonishment...