Originally posted by Merriwether
(By the way, the much discussed crook who "freezes" bike locks and then cracks them with a hammer? He's a resident of the same neighborhood as the old lady who put her poodle in the microwave, the family who bought the tropical rat thinking it was a small dog, and the guy who attached rockets to his car. He's a character in an urban legend, in other words. ) [/B]
Heh.
Actually, I think the rocket guy was real--he won a Darwin Award back in the 90's. The Darwin Award is given to whoever killed themselves in the most stupid way the previous year, thus improving the gene pool by their removal. Anyone who wants to read the accounts of terminal stupidity--
http://www.darwinawards.com
On the subject, though, there was an angry letter written to the Appleton newspaper last week. A woman was complaining that her child had just had her 5th bicycle stolen out of their back yard. You'd think by the fifth, they'd have learned not to leave bikes in the back yard.... (No mention of locks was made, BTW.)