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Originally Posted by Ace_O_Spades
This was also done in The Wire... which was the best show on television until season 5
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Life and art? I'd guess the real event happened first. I read the story in the 80's. Not sure how long The Wire's been on the air.
The back page of this magazine used to have odd and funny stories.
One story detailed a deputy who'd been called out to a large family farm in the middle of, let's say Iowa since I can't remember the state. Anyway after driving many miles out to this isolated farm he talks to the farmer who explains someone broke into his barn. The deputy asks to see damage. He's taken out to a huge barn with a door that's been smashed in. It's half full of livestock and half equipment and a shop area. In the shop area there's a really large RV, top of the line RV. The RV has a section of garden hose sticking out of its side. Next to it there's a couple empty gas cans, about 15-20 empty beer cans and what appears to be vomit. The deputy asked if the gas can belongs to the farm? Nope. The beer? Yep.
He says "Well, no big mystery here. Someone ran out of gas and broke in here trying to find some, drank a few of your beers and got sick before they could finish stealing your gas."
"Close but not exactly" says the farmer.
"And why not?" replies the deputy.
"Because that hose isn't sticking out of the gas tank it's in the sewer vent access."