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- From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
- Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
- Subject: Re: Dead Cat
- Message-ID: <3FL0VB1w165w@unkaphaed.gbdata.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 02:15:13 GMT
- References: <13080088@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
- Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX
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- rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:
-
- > Okay, here's a great story. I heard it from a friend of ours, at a party.
- > I've never known her to lie, and for all I know, it really did happen. In
- > any case, it was a great story, and a fun party (Hi Mike!) -- such a great
- > story that I had to wonder if you've heard it before:
- >
- > --------------------
- >
- > Her mom had gone to the mall in Pocatello (whaddaya mean, "which one?")
- > to meet her aunt and cousin, to finish up some Christmas shopping. When
- > she found them at the mall, they were sitting on a bench, doubled over
- > in hysteria, red-faced, crying, you get the picture. Her mom was immediately
- > concerned, and tried to find out what was the matter with them.
- >
- > When they got their breath back, they replied that they were just fine, but
- > that "you won't belive what just happened." Then they told her this story.
- >
- > Aunt and cousin had driven the pickup truck to the mall. Along the way they
- > had hit a cat and killed it. They felt really bad about it, and didn't want
- > to just leave the carcass on the road, being animal lovers and all. They
- > had brought with them some things to exchange at the mall, so they dumped
- > the stuff out of the plastic shopping bag, put the dead cat in the bag, and
- > set the bag in the bed of the truck. They planned on taking the dead cat
- > to the Humane Society after their shopping trip.
- >
- > So as they parked the truck at the mall, some guy walked right past them
- > and in one fluid motion looked in the bed, spotted the bag, swooped it out
- > of the bed, and walked briskly into the mall. (All the better to lose the
- > ladies; and besides, they still had to get out of the truck, lock it, etc.)
- > Since their merchandise-to-return was still intact, they decided not to yell
- > "Stop thief! He's stolen our dead cat!" but instead to follow him and see
- > what he did with the bag.
- >
- > Aunt and cousin got inside the mall just in time to see the guy stop and open
- > the bag for a look inside. When he saw what was in the bag, he dropped it
- > and fainted dead away. Hit his head on the hard tile floor, too. Out cold.
- >
- > Somebody called 911, and soon an ambulance crew came rushing in. They
- > checked the poor guy, and decided to haul him to the hospital. So they
- > gently put him on the gurney, placed his shopping bag on his chest, and
- > wheeled him out. End of story.
- >
- > Well?
- > Ray Depew
- > Integrated Circuits Business Division
- > Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
- > rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com
-
-
- The "Dead Animal In A package That Gets Stolen" is an old one. It is a
- variation of the more popular "Stolen Urine Sampler' and the "stolen bag
- of garbage" foaftales. But this is an especially elaborate version you
- relate.
-
- Old foaftales never die, they just get better and better.
-
-
- Pope Charles SubGenius Pope Of Houston Slack!
-
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