Purloined poop: Who's the victim?
Posted on 12/05/2002 2:32:38 AM PST by MeekOneGOP
Purloined poop: Who's the victim?
As man was shopping, thieves stole droppings, then fled holding the bag
12/05/2002
Matt Boswell had that holiday spirit after Christmas shopping this week in Frisco.
Then he saw some stinking thief messing around in the back of his pickup truck outside Stonebriar Centre mall.
"I yelled at him," said Mr. Boswell, who watched the dirty dog haul two plastic bags from the truck to a waiting car and flee. The Little Elm resident didn't give chase or waste his time calling police.
No. 1, the loss was a mere drop in the bucket.
No. 2, this is the season of sharing, a time for surprises.
"I sure wish I could have been there when he opened the bags," said Mr. Boswell, "entremanure" of a pet waste-removal company.
Those gift bags together contained about 25 pounds of leftovers from lawns in Irving and North Dallas.
"I just couldn't stop laughing," said Mr. Boswell, who had parked in the open so people, including thieves, could read the words painted on the sides of his truck.
"It's pretty obvious what we do," he said. "It says we scoop poop."
Mr. Boswell said he and his three employees weekly take in about a ton of dung.
And if the guys in the black, four-door sedan want some more, he said, "we have plenty where that came from."
E-mail rappleton@dallasnews.com
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On the bright side, maybe the thieves were planning to take the bags to Hollywood, put them on Barbra Streisand's porch, set them on fire, ring the dorrbell and run. |
The comment above...couldn't help thinking about you.
We miss you. Take care.
Obviously they were public school drop-outs, that never learned to read.
Obviously, a man who gives a $#!+.
Man admits theft tale was just poop fiction
12/06/2002
The story of the purloined poop sounded good and brought many a chuckle.
Too bad it wasn't true.
Matt Boswell, owner of a pet waste-removal business, had said Wednesday that he watched a man steal two bags of dung from his pickup truck at a Frisco shopping mall.
But Mr. Boswell acknowledged Thursday that he had made up the story.
"It surely didn't hurt anybody," said the 31-year-old Little Elm resident. "It made a lot of people laugh."
Robert W. Mong Jr., president and editor of The Dallas Morning News , said: "This gentleman did not act in good faith with us or our many readers. I personally apologize for this breach of trust."
Mr. Boswell contacted the newspaper this week and discussed the alleged theft in interviews.
A reader contacted the newspaper Thursday, writing that Mr. Boswell was bragging about his ruse in an Internet discussion forum for animal-waste specialists.
"Pretty good little press release I put together Aye?" Mr. Boswell wrote in the forum."(Sure would have been hilarious if it really happened (to me)! shhhhhh...."
Mr. Boswell was contacted and acknowledged the fiction.
"It always helps to get your name out there," he said, when asked why he had contacted the newspaper.
The company's name wasn't included in the newspaper account.
"I'm sorry if I offended anyone," Mr. Boswell said in an interview Thursday.
E-mail rappleton@dallasnews.com
Jeepers, Mr. Mong, I can think of a LOT of stories you've run that are very LIBERAL biased. While you're apologizing, would you care to apologize for those breach's of trust as well, huh??......
Who could believe the man was bullsh!tting?
What a sh!tty thing to do.
Now.... that has got to be an interesting forum. HA!
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