diff --git a/core/src/main/java/com/digitalpebble/storm/crawler/persistence/StdOutStatusUpdater.java b/core/src/main/java/com/digitalpebble/storm/crawler/persistence/StdOutStatusUpdater.java
index <HASH>..<HASH> 100644
--- a/core/src/main/java/com/digitalpebble/storm/crawler/persistence/StdOutStatusUpdater.java
+++ b/core/src/main/java/com/digitalpebble/storm/crawler/persistence/StdOutStatusUpdater.java
@@ -18,13 +18,9 @@
 package com.digitalpebble.storm.crawler.persistence;
 
 import java.util.Date;
-import java.util.Map;
 
 import com.digitalpebble.storm.crawler.Metadata;
 
-import backtype.storm.task.OutputCollector;
-import backtype.storm.task.TopologyContext;
-
 /**
  * Dummy status updater which dumps the content of the incoming tuples to the
  * standard output. Useful for debugging and as an illustration of what
@@ -32,15 +28,6 @@ import backtype.storm.task.TopologyContext;
  */
 @SuppressWarnings("serial")
 public class StdOutStatusUpdater extends AbstractStatusUpdaterBolt {
-    OutputCollector _collector;
-
-    @SuppressWarnings("rawtypes")
-    @Override
-    public void prepare(Map conf, TopologyContext context,
-            OutputCollector collector) {
-        super.prepare(conf, context, collector);
-        _collector = collector;
-    }
 
     @Override
     public void store(String url, Status status, Metadata metadata,
StdOutStatusUpdater does not need collector