Joan Rivers Costco Book Signing Stunt Executed Perfectly (No One Was Shot): VIDEO

By Dennis Romero Wed., Aug. 8 2012 at 8:06 AM

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Crazy old lady walks into a Costco ...

The joke starts that way and ends with Joan Rivers being escorted out by very patient Burbank police. You know that if the tale began with Young Latino walks into a Costco, sets up a table and attempts to autograph his own stack of books, it would have ended in an officer-involved shooting (especially in Anaheim).

But this is a bona fide celebrity we're talking about here, sort of. No one was injured:

According to our sources (in this case, City News Service), Ms. Rivers has a beef with Costco because it's not carrying her new New York Times bestseller, I Hate Everything...Starting With Me.

(Note to self: Write I Hate Joan Rivers Too).

So she went to the the Burbank Costco yesterday afternoon, entourage in tow, set up a table, and started signing copies of her book.

At one point Rivers chained herself to a shopping cart (the poor cart didn't have a safe word, unfortunately).

And while we praise the Burbank P.D. for its restraint (officers are seen calmly standing by in news footage), we have to wonder how, say, our friend Gustavo Arellano would have been treated if he showed up with his new book.

Anyway, Rivers was eventually escorted out, reportedly, and yada, yada, yada.

Except for this: She told ABC Eyewitness News last night that she will still shop at Costo, especially because she goes there for all her sex toy needs.

Really. Shudders.

Publicity stunt accomplished.

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books, Burbank, celebrities, Costco, Joan Rivers

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rabbipedro

Ugly, wrinkled washed-up old jew cunt. What do you expect?

Meabsolutely831

Jeez, Mr. Romero, take that massive chip off your shoulder. If I showed up naked at Cosco as a white male, i would be ejected too, and probably beaten with billy clubs to the approval of all nearby for the bad taste of appearing naked in public. Neither Bar Rafelie, Brooklyn Decker, Will Smith, or David Beckham would suffer a similar fate. PS: I love Joan Rivers and I am going to buy her book. PPS: once she saw my kids who were with my ex wife passing a hotel: some function was over: one of my kids saw her and waved although she had no idea who Rivers was; Rivers rolled down the window of her limo, waved and sent candy to the kids! She's great and made me laugh all thru the 80's and 90's.

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Support Costco! Costco, as most know, is a discount warehouse store that caters to business and families. They are also Americans with the right of free speech. Alleged comedienne Joan Rivers (once she called the Virgin Mary a whore, I have had no use for her) handcuffed herself to a shopper's grocery cart at an LA area Costco when they banned her book for the off-color and inappropriate verbiage on the outside cover. Now she claims Costco is like Nazi Germany. One would think that a Jewish person like Joan would not lightly use such a comparison. We still have free speech in this country! Support Costco! www.costco.com Looking for some great summer reading? Visit www.loucreativeinc.com and check out his two books, 8 CENTER FIELD IN NEW YORK and ATHLETE FOR HIRE @