Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: TUESDAY, January 11, 1994 TAG: 9401110171
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C2 EDITION: STATE
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DATELINE: MANASSAS LENGTH: Medium
For $20, buyers can wear such messages as "when you snooze . . . you lose" and "go ahead . . . make me scream."
There was lots of competition, though. Other vendors had shirts touting Manassas, site of Lorena Bobbitt's malicious wounding trial, as "a cut above" or a place that "ain't for weenies."
\ The city of Manassas, meantime, put out a media advisory "to correct specific geographic errors" in stories about the Bobbitts.
John Bobbitt's penis was cut off in Prince William County but was reattached at a hospital in the city, the advisory said.
"We would appreciate it if the domestic violence in nearby Prince William County is reported as such," the advisory said. "On the other hand, did you know that the proposed Disney's America is `just outside' Manassas?"
\ With temperatures in the teens, Tommy Griffiths wasn't looking for many takers at his hot-dogs-and-soft-drinks promotion - "Slice 'N Weiners" - outside the Prince William County courthouse.
Authorities wouldn't let Griffiths, disc jockey co-host of radio station WNOR's "Tommy and the Bull" morning show in Norfolk, cook on the grounds of the courthouse where Lorena Bobbitt went on trial Monday.
Undeterred, the radio station's crew set up their oven at their truck in a nearby parking lot. "They'll probably freeze before we get them over here," Griffiths said.
Later, deputies relented. "We've slashed our prices," the WNOR sign said.
\ John Bobbitt, after a round of media interviews following his highly-publicized acquittal on a charge of marital sexual assault, has been spending time at a private ranch in Colorado for some rest and relaxation, his attorney says.
Gregory Murphy, who successfully defended Bobbitt, said his client was supposed to go somewhere "where all he could do is ride horses, herd cows and bale hay."
But Bobbitt found out about an event at a nearby bar and wanted to get involved. "They're having a John Bobbitt look-alike contest, and I think I can win it," Murphy quoted Bobbitt as saying.
The attorney convinced his client to stay away or the press would find him.
by CNB