Childhood icon intentionally recycled

(New York, NY) Friends and fans of television star 'Teeny Little Super Guy', a.k.a Tony "Tough Man" Baker, where stunned today with news that the childhood hero had been found crushed outside his Manhattan apartment building, the victim of 'random recycling'.

Although family members were mum on the facts surrounding the event, police officials say they have several leads suspects including three men who have close ties to the infamous environmental organization known as "Green Peas".

Sources close to the investigation, say friends noticed Baker "half-full of scotch and mad as heck" about an hour before the incident. Police later found a threat letter in Baker's residence - dated the previous day - rebuking the child star for "encouraging underage littering" and "fostering the abuse of plastic materials." The letter was signed "G.P. Crusaders."

Two hours later, Baker's plastic body was discovered crushed under a cinder block.

Though commonly confused with "Green Peace", the organization has splinter cells throughout the Western Hemisphere and was recently blamed for the non-fatal mugging of another Sesame Street Oscar "the Grouch" Oswald, 57.