Why is this EventListner looping so many times?

programming flash
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I am trying to make it so when you click anwhere on the stage the movieclip cursor is removed.

Code:

stage.addEventListener(MouseEvent.CLICK,ketchremove);
	function ketchremove (evt:MouseEvent):void
	{
		trace("I am removed");
					
	}

if I add a removeEventListener inthere then the image doesnt remove
I did have stage.removeChild(ketchMC); in there and it worked fine
but It just keeps looping a million and a half times. How do I make it only try to delete once. Where would I remove the event listener?

also none of my scripts are on the main timeline
and google is of no help in this situation.

thanks for any help