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Residents Find Quirky Way to Advertise Yard Sale
A cutout of Katie Couric and Matt Lauer drew customers from Falls Road.
Gary Godbey, 34, and a friend planned to have a yard sale Saturday in Roland Park off Falls Road.
But Hurricane Irene forced them to move up their plans by a day. So Godbey decided to call out a little extra help and used his life-sized cutout of Katie Couric and Matt Lauer to help draw costumers in.
“It gets attention,” Godbey said late Friday morning.
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Godbey said a friend gave him the cutout as a going-away present when he moved from Kentucky four years ago because he was “obsessed” with Couric when she was on the Today Show.
Godbey said the cutout has been used for practical jokes and was even run over by a car at their last yard sale.
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“For some reason I can’t give it up,” Godbey said.
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