[PEN-L:1301] Re: Health-nut hoodlums

[valis <valis@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Louis reports, via Harper's and a Salt Lake City daily:
> Two college students who were smoking cigarettes on a Salt Lake City street
> Saturday were confronted by a gang of twenty bleach-haired teenagers
> wielding chains, bricks, and a giant spray can of pepper gas.
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> Straight Edgers blend the punk-rock style of the early 1980s with militant
> health standards. They do not drink, smoke, or take drugs, and some are
> known to enforce their moral standards on strangers by beating them
> severely. Some vegetarian members of the group have been responsible for
> firebombing leather stores, vandalizing egg trucks, and torching....etc.

Could very well be a Mormon aberration.  The LDSers have experienced much
schism and scandal in the past 15-20 years.
                                                                     valis