[crackmonkey] [snatcher@pigdog.org: [Pigdog] Bong Hit Santa]

[Nick Moffitt]

	Santa, Marijuana, and Liquidation World!  What could possibly
go wrong?

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SANTA MOONLIGHTS ON CABLE TV, TIMING MARIJUANA HITS 12/08/98 07:48AM
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** The Associated Press (c). All rights reserved. **

SEATTLE (AP) _ Hey Santa, got a light?

When Mark Calvert isn't greeting shoppers at Liquidation World in his
Santa suit, he's entertaining viewers of ``Bong Hit Championship,'' a
public-access cable TV show on which Calvert uses a stopwatch to time
how long callers can inhale marijuana from a water pipe.

Viewer Susan Brown said she stumbled on Calvert's show last week and
heard him cheer a 14-year-old caller as he inhaled.

Later, she was appalled to hear him refer to himself as ``a bona fide
Santa,'' and give the name and location of the store.

``This guy's ... on TV doing a drug show and telling kids where to
come and see him in a Santa suit,'' Brown said. ``I think it's
rancid.''

A Liquidation World spokesman said the store was unaware of Calvert's
other line of work when he was hired last week.

``We don't condone (illegal drug use), and if that's true, he
definitely won't be employed here,'' manager Jerry Voeller said.

Calvert could not be reached for comment.

_AP-CS-12-08-98 0848EST<

http://www.newsfinder.com/nf/offbeat/081201.html

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