Bloodless Coup

Where have all the Goths gone?

This is just hysterical. A Republican Congressman from Missouri gets over a quarter million dollars of "your money" (as these folks say) to combat "Goths" in Blue Springs, MO and almost half of it gets returned to the federal treasury because it turns out that, on further review, there weren't Goths there. It turns out, if you can believe it, that this wasn't an other-wordly menace, just a teen fad. And it seems that it didn't take hundreds of thousands of dollars to stop it. It just died out as such fads do. Of course the government still spent about $150,000 on it anyway (in the course of getting the program to fight this non-existent threat going).