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Who Burned Down the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop?

By David Lohr

When Donald Crabtree, the shop's owner, opened the topless, over-18 establishment about four months ago in the small Maine town of Vassalboro, population about 4,500, at least 150 people applied for the 10 positions that were available.  After it had been converted from a former motel into the Grand View Topless Coffee Shop it had become a place, reporters and townsfolk quipped, where cup size did make a difference.  Apparently the fact that topless waitresses served coffee and doughnuts between the hours of 6 a.m. and 6 p.m. raised the ire of many of the town's residents, even though the establishment adhered to the local ordinances.  One of those outraged citizens, police believe, burned down the coffee shop while Crabtree, two of his daughters and their boyfriends, along with two small children, slept in rooms adjacent to the Grand View...continue to full post

Full post as published by Bizarre Crimes of the Week on June 12, 2009 (boomark / email).