Posted on 04/09/2015 12:37:10 PM PDT by dware
FULL TITLE: Des Moines man reports person tried to steal truck, instead took bag of dog poop, police say
DES MOINES, Iowa – Police say someone who attempted to steal a truck parked outside a Des Moines home instead took a bag of dog poop.
The Des Moines Police Department responded to a report of an attempted burglary around 4:45 p.m. Wednesday. Upon arrival, a man told police someone broke into the driver's side door of his truck sometime last month.
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The Des Moines Register reports (http://dmreg.co/1Jsv4xS ) that the dog poop has been valued at $1.
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If anyone knows the value of dog poop; it would be The Des Moines Register.
What I wanna know is WHY? Why would anyone carry around dog poop in their truck?
So a thief will steal it, rather than the truck. It worked.
Why would anyone carry around dog poop in their truck?
Because he’s an optimist, and figures there must be a puppy in there somewhere?
This is either a very common occurrence in thievery or it is simple an urban legend (and urban legends make the news all the time and have for over a century).
http://urbanlegends.about.com/library/bl_dillards_thief.htm
The “Dead Cat” in the Package
Netlore Archive: After stealing someone’s shopping bag in a department store parking lot, a thief gets the surprise of her life when she opens it up and sees what’s inside.
Analysis: This classic urban legend, known to folklorists as “The Dead Cat in the Package,” refuses to die a quiet death even though it’s at least a century old, as San Francisco’s venerated newspaper columnist Herb Caen observed in 1963:
The Story of the Dead Cat: a woman, for reasons unexplained, places her dead cat in a shoebox and, on the way to bury it, stops in a downtown department store. (Why?) As she is shopping, she places the box on a counter, and it disappears. A few minutes later, the store detective finds a lady shoplifter passed out in the powder room, the open shoebox on her lap. I first printed that in 1938 — it was hoary then — and it reappears in somebody’s column at least once a year, as gospel.
The email version above, noteworthy for its down-home details like topping off a day of shopping at Dillard’s with lunch at Luby’s Cafeteria, has been circulating on the Internet since 1998.
A new variant, in which it is claimed that muggers in Austria stole a woman’s handbag containing the corpse of her beloved pet rabbit, appeared in European newspapers in November 2007.
Because maybe this article is just BS that fills column space in the fishwrap and gets people talking. See my post about it likely being an urban legend (which DO run in newspapers).
Maybe he had plans for his neighbor’s front porch, a lighter or match, and a quick knock on the door.
I like the guy who has been pooping on peoples car hoods.
There’s a similar story in the “Better Call Saul” tv show about an incident called a “Chicago sunroof”...
Were there any nearby Michael Moore sightings at the time?
It sounds like something that he would do - not necessarily the breaking into and attempting to steal a truck part, but the taking a bag of dog poo part would certainly seem to be in character for him.
Almost as funny as the woman who stole a shopping bag in Wal Mart and when she got home and opened it, found a dead cat!
But, who is “ed?”
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