I got derailed in the last part of the Deception posts by some stuff Raymond Chandler wrote that fits in well. (Mysteries providing further tests for truth-sifting.) So it’s still in the works.
Meanwhile, I just saw this story, about an idiot in Indiana who was wrecking gravestones in a cemetery and got trapped under a half ton tombstone.
Check it out, here or in the Indystar. He and his pal had been out drinking, then visited the Calumet Park Cemetery in Merrillville, a NW Indiana town, where 14 gravestones were vandalized.
The 1,000 pound tombstone toppled on him, broke both his legs, and he was trapped for about three hours. It took five officers to extract him.
Not exactly the kind of graveyard smash he originally intended.
Afterward, after his drinking buddy had skedaddled and he lie there, waiting for rescue, it might just have been the wind billowing through the high limbs of the trees, rustling the leaves. Or it might have been the spirits boogying and laughing.
Bogeying?
Those indianians. They’re crazy coots.
Oh, now this IS a grave situation. My favorite line from the Indystar – “The letter V left an imprint on Schreiber’s thigh,” Smith said. I guess that’s the spirit version of the Scarlet Letter. 8)
Wh-abbit, given that it’s an inane thing to do, we could then opine about Indianan inanity.
QM, I love that part, too. It’s almost too good to be true. “V” for vandal? Or perhaps now just very, very embarrassed. This would be a tough one to rationalize your way out of …
I have lived in Indiana for 16 years now. All Indianans are not crazy nor vandals
some are stupid. some are retarded. some are brain dead. The fact he was able to topple a headstone proves that he was at least a high functioning hoosier.
you missed the story about the idiot shooting the police dog.
Your line about “all Indianans” reminds me of the old joke refering to California as the granola state.
Malicen-, can you give us a link to the police dog story?
Ben, I’m still waiting for the original part 3. . .
certainly
http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070510/LOCAL/705100569