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Hallmark's 'CSI: Topeka' card fails to amuse mayor

Published: Sunday, Oct. 2, 2005 12:00 a.m. MDT
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Don't send Mayor Bill Bunten this birthday card. He won't be amused.

The birthday card produced by Hallmark bears the title "CSI: Topeka" and features a cartoon of two people standing over a corpse, with one saying, "Looks like he was bored to death."

Inside the card is the message, "Hope your birthday is anything but dull."

Though a company spokeswoman says Hallmark didn't intend to offend anyone, the mayor wasn't laughing when he learned about it.

"I find it offensive," Bunten told The Topeka Capital-Journal. "It's probably drawn up by somebody from West Virginia who hasn't been here."

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