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.
This extreme measure followed a December 7 incident in which a man tried to hit Palin with a tomato at a Mall Of America event, but missed and hit a police officer instead.
