From: popec@unkaphaed.gbdata.com (William C. Barwell)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.urban
Subject: Re: Dead Cat
Date: Thu, 24 Dec 92 02:15:13 GMT
Organization: Unka Phaed's UUCP Thingy, Houston, TX

rrd@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Ray Depew) writes:

> Okay, here's a great story.  I heard it from a friend of ours, at a party.
> I've never known her to lie, and for all I know, it really did happen.  In
> any case, it was a great story, and a fun party (Hi Mike!) -- such a great
> story that I had to wonder if you've heard it before:
> 
> --------------------
> 
> Her mom had gone to the mall in Pocatello (whaddaya mean, "which one?") 
> to meet her aunt and cousin, to finish up some Christmas shopping.  When
> she found them at the mall, they were sitting on a bench, doubled over
> in hysteria, red-faced, crying, you get the picture.  Her mom was immediately
> concerned, and tried to find out what was the matter with them.
> 
> When they got their breath back, they replied that they were just fine, but
> that "you won't belive what just happened."  Then they told her this story.
> 
> Aunt and cousin had driven the pickup truck to the mall.  Along the way they
> had hit a cat and killed it.  They felt really bad about it, and didn't want
> to just leave the carcass on the road, being animal lovers and all.  They
> had brought with them some things to exchange at the mall, so they dumped 
> the stuff out of the plastic shopping bag, put the dead cat in the bag, and
> set the bag in the bed of the truck.  They planned on taking the dead cat
> to the Humane Society after their shopping trip.
> 
> So as they parked the truck at the mall, some guy walked right past them 
> and in one fluid motion looked in the bed, spotted the bag, swooped it out
> of the bed, and walked briskly into the mall.  (All the better to lose the
> ladies; and besides, they still had to get out of the truck, lock it, etc.)
> Since their merchandise-to-return was still intact, they decided not to yell
> "Stop thief!  He's stolen our dead cat!" but instead to follow him and see
> what he did with the bag.
> 
> Aunt and cousin got inside the mall just in time to see the guy stop and open
> the bag for a look inside.  When he saw what was in the bag, he dropped it 
> and fainted dead away.  Hit his head on the hard tile floor, too.  Out cold.
> 
> Somebody called 911, and soon an ambulance crew came rushing in.  They 
> checked the poor guy, and decided to haul him to the hospital.  So they
> gently put him on the gurney, placed his shopping bag on his chest, and
> wheeled him out.  End of story.
> 
> Well?
> Ray Depew
> Integrated Circuits Business Division
> Hewlett Packard Co, Fort Collins, Colorado
> rrd@hpfiqa.fc.hp.com


The "Dead Animal In A package That Gets Stolen" is an old one.  It is a 
variation of the more popular "Stolen Urine Sampler' and the "stolen bag 
of garbage" foaftales.  But this is an especially elaborate version you 
relate.
  
Old foaftales never die, they just get better and better.


Pope Charles   SubGenius Pope Of Houston      Slack!

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