A Costco in Salt Lake City, Utah reportedly removed all of its tomatoes ahead of a Sarah Palin book tour event, after a man was arrested for attempting to hit Palin with a tomato at an earlier event in Minnesota.According to the Salt Lake Tribune, Costco management was “determined” to avoid another tomato-throwing incident, and resorted to removing all of the tomatoes from the store.
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