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From: jwiggins@nyx.cs.du.edu (Joe Wiggins)
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Subject: Paul Harvey source of UL's?
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The following was published in a local paper (and therefore is true) as
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excerpted from 'Paul Harvey's For What It's Worth' (Bantom Books), and
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since it's from a book it MUST be true! These are purported to be Paul's
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best wierd, but true, stories:
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1. We visit Altoona, PA, where TV anchorman Brandon Brooks demonstrated
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for his viewers how to protect their homes from burglars. He used his
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own home to demonstrate... Double locks on doors, windows that will
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not open from the outside, burglar alarms... Now it appears that
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thieves were watching the program. They not only learned where the
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double locks were, but where the TV set was and the VCR and the
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furniture and other things. So a few nights later - while Brandon
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Brooks was on the air back at the studio - the thieves broke into his
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house and cleaned him out. That window that won't open from the
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outside? They smashed it.
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2. Police Chief Clifton Sullivan - Russell Springs, KY - got a call from
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a lady who wanted her bachelor neighbor arrested for indecent exposure
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The chief went to her house and witnessed for himself... The fact
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was that the man next door was in his bathroom shaving. 'But,' the
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chief said, 'with the bottom part of the man's bathroom window covered
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as it is, I cannot tell if the bottom part of the man is wearing
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anything or not.' 'But,' the woman said, 'Well, you just stand on
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this chair and stand on your tiptoes and you'll see!'
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3. Ed Ruffing reports in the Utica, NY, Observer-Dispatch. Burglars in
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suburban Marcy were carrying the TV set down the driveway when the
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next-door neighbor called out: 'Hey, are you going to fix her TV set?'
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And the burglars called back, 'Yes.' And the neighbor asked, 'Mine
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needs fixing, could you take it, too?' And the burglars said, 'Be
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glad to.' And they did.
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4. We visit Raleigh, NC, where a state cop stopped a drunken driver.
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While he was ticketing the man, there was a multicar accident on the
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other side of the divided highway. The highway patrolman told the
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drunk to wait. The patrolman went across the highway to sort out the
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accident. After awhile the drunk figured he'd waited long enough and
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he drove on home and told his wife that if anybody asked she should
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say he had been in bed with the flu all day. Within the hour, two
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state patrolmen appeared at the home of the drunken driver and asked
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to see him. He came from the bedroom wrapped in a robe and coughing
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and wheezing. The patrolman asked if he'd been drinking that evening,
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and he said he'd been sick in bed. They apologized for bothering
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him and asked if they could take a look at his car. The drunk escorted
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them to the garage and inside was - a highway patrol car, the blue
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lights still flashing.
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Gee, names and actual places and everything. Nice to finally find the
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origins for these. I wasn't familiar with number 1, but I'd always
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heard number 2 told as a joke, number 3 was in Reader's Digest 20 or
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so years ago, and number 4 was in one of Brunvand's books.
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Later... Joe 'Stan Kwenton is just a pen name' Wiggins
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