Doggedly searching for the crux of the biscuit.
Submitted for your consideration.
We have new and bizarre details about the man accused of stealing a Davidson County ambulance and strapping a week-old deer carcass to the gurney.
Investigators say Leon Hollimon stole the ambulance and led police on a three-county chase this past weekend. When they caught him, he was wearing a stethoscope, pager and had two latex gloves in his back pocket. The deer was attached to an IV.
Investigators say they're not sure where Hollimon is from, but he has a large number of arrests in the Jacksonville, Florida area and may be from there. They say they don't yet know how he ended up in Lexington. He's currently having a mental evaluation at a state hospital in Butner.
I thought for a long time about a punchline but man, sometimes you just can't improve on reality. When I first read this story I said to myself, "Wow, even by North Carolina standards, that is some over-the-top kind of crazy." Then I got to the part where the fellow is from Florida. Makes more sense once you factor in that detail. Previous stories are here and here.
Huge hat tip to fiend for sending me this one.
TrackBackThere was an experiment where the researchers applied gradually escalating stress to a community of rats. They (the rats) went nuts and in the end were eating each other.
I understand your country was once called the 'great experiment'. Looks like the research agenda has been perverted.
How do you stress a rat?
Take away its cheese, sink the ship, insult its mother?
Posted by: Dave McLeod at October 4, 2005 09:59 PM