Thanks, SC, but I would've posted this one anyway, just for the pun of it...(grin)
I'd found some version of this story online, thought it was pretty weird and naturally wanted to post and ping, but something came up (minor family crisis, all better now) and I wondered if Blam would post it. Alas, he was on the road and way out of town (although I wonder how he got the FReepmail... funny, that didn't occur to me before), so I wrote back that it would wait until tomorrow, because, hey, no one is going to A) see it or B) post it on FR...