Ya can't make up this stuff!
When southern Florida resident Nathan Radlich's house was burglarized
recently, thieves ignored his wide screen plasma TV, his VCR, and even
left his Rolex watch. What they did take, however, was "a generic white
cardboard box filled with a grayish-white powder." (That, at least, is the way
the police report described it.) A spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale police
said, "that it looked similar to high grade cocaine and they'd probably thought
they'd hit the big time." Later, Nathan stood in front of the numerous TV
cameras and pleaded with the burglars: "Please return the cremated remains of my
sister, Gertrude. She died three years ago." The next morning, the
bullet-riddled corpse of a local drug dealer know n as Hoochie Peven s was found
on Nathan's doorstep. The cardboard box was there too; about half of Gertrude's
ashes remained. Scotch taped to the box was this note which said:
"Hoochie sold us the bogus blow, so we wasted Hoochie. Sorry we
snorted your sister. No hard feelings. Have a nice day."