The color purple? Who wants to watch a movie about a lame ass metrosexual color anyway???
These guys are messing with you. The truth is he choked a guy out in a gas station over a pack of grape "Now or Later" candy, that's why they keep making purple jokes. It seems silly, and nobody could believe it when it happened. To be fair to him, they are pretty hard to get in certain states.
You might be able to get it to come up if you search here or google around a little. The story and photos that went with it are wild, Groink sitting on the curb in cuffs, horrified workers staring down at a mess of shattered candy containers. Lemonheads, mint balls, tootsie rolls scarred, stepped on, and scattered about like little sugary soldiers after a bomb blast.

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