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