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AS THOSE “Wild and Crazy Guys” Georg and Yortuk Festrunt [Steve Martin and Dan Aykroyd] used to say, “Now are the foxes!” In this case, stuffed ones. Another time it was a suit of armor. It can be whatever Fred Biehl, 60, has found at garage sales and is selling at the Wolff’s [irony of name noted] Flea Market in the AllState Arena parking lot. “I’m out there every two, three weeks,” he said. “I get in line to get in around 3 a.m., eat lunch around 6 or so, sit in the sun and talk with people. I go home before the market closes. I get tired.” Biehl’s wife goes along to garage sales to help him decide what to buy and to keep him in check. “She says I’ll buy anything weird.”