Scientology

http://www.bostonmagazine.com/highlights/turkey.shtml

"Boston" magazine, November 1998

==================== Join us in toasting and roasting the Titanic nincompoops, massive losers, and gigantic jerks who make Boston such a very special town.

Oh, That Sinking Feeling Selecting our 1998 Golden Turkey presented a difficult conundrum: We had two candidates who exemplified the ideal mix of qualities required to wear the official Boston Magazine Golden Turkey sash at parades, monster truck pulls, and state funerals. They had both lied, denied, and were ultimately fried for their 1998 infractions.

[snip] He cracked when they started screening Days of Thunder and Urban Cowboy on his front lawn.

Multimillionaire and fervent anti-Church of Scientology activist Robert Minton of Boston fired two 12-gauge-shotgun blasts in the air when a church private eye and four Scientologist protesters refused to leave the grounds of his Sandown, New Hampshire, home, according to the Boston Herald. No criminal charges were filed.

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