11-16-17 06:59 joe mackey wrote to Daryl Stout about Dead bodies (was: Re: Ban
Howdy! Joe,

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 jm>   Daryl wrote --
 DS>  .. Sounds like Groucho. It's like the former comic strip, "Calvin And
 DS> Hobbes", where Calvin says something to the cop about "a
dead body in
 DS> the trunk". :P

 jm>   Several years ago the criminal justice class on campus had their
 jm> annual CSI test.  Now normally they alert the campus what they are
 jm> doing, not to touch anything someone might find, etc.  This time they
 jm> didn't.
 jm>   I was going along in the cart and saw a shell casing laying near a
 jm> sidewalk. I made a mental note and going to alert the cops.
 jm>   On the way I ran into some people in housing I knew and while talking
 jm> with them we heard this blood curdling scream and this housekeeper came
 jm> running from the boiler/storeroom of this one dorm.  She was screaming
 jm> about finding "a dead body behind the boiler, blood
everywhere".  We
 jm> took off to check it out and turned out to be a dummy, fake blood, etc.
 jm>   The head of housekeeping was not happy over this "practical
joke" and
 jm> threw the dummy into an open top dumpster and told his people to clean
 jm> up the mess.
 jm>   An hour or so later the CSI people came to investigate this crime
 jm> scene and no evidence anywhere.
 jm>   Housekeeping told them it served them right not letting anyone know.
 jm>   From then on they made sure the campus knew days in advance.  :)

While reading that story I had to laugh.
Thanks for making my day.


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