See that chimney in the background of the top pic on this page?

Some years ago, a guy who had just been released from either the local jail or the state pen decided to break into the liquor store by dropping down the chimney, Santa Claus style. It, apparently, never occurring to him that there was no more than a 10" wide hole at the bottom of the chimney.

So, one of the employees had to go down to the basement of the gas station to get some inventory the next morning and heard this guy yelling from inside the chimney (there's no longer a boiler or furnace attached, just a metal panel over the flue opening.

Anyway, they call the fire department and they haul the guy out of the chimney and send him right back to the pokey. He may not be in prison anymore on that breaking and entering rap, but given his comparative lack of intelligence, it seems likely that he's back in prison for something or another.


Jackrabbit, old map and matchbook collector and owner of TimeAndSeasons.com