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thelibrarygirl said on September 20th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

Another good detail noted by the journalist:

“It’s a pretty tough truck,” Fitzthum said of the vehicle, which has “Live Your Dreams” written across the hood.

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*judges quickly*

I feel stupider just from reading that. Bored rednecks are most entertaining when they end up in the Darwin Awards.

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The story’s dateline is May 27, 2000, but dude. It doesn’t matter.

This guy is awesome. Because despite my fancy education and white collar job and generally respectable station in life, I would have done the same damn thing. How could you not?

Okay, the fact that he was wanted on charges of credit card fraud a few days later mitigates his coolness significantly.

Still…you have (a) a big pickup truck, (b) a house to tear down, (c) a garage you’ve reduced to rubble with the aforementioned truck, and (d) a makeshift ramp to the house’s roof created by the rubble. Dude. You’d be stupid not to put the truck on the roof.

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Oh, good catch on the dateline, Brad, thanks. I suppose that answers the question about the Spin Doctors.

–d

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Among them was a Kent woman who was driving by and stopped when she spotted the truck on the roof. “It’s bizarre,” said the woman, who declined to give her name. “That man is either nuts, drunk or starved for attention.”

I vote for all of the above.

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