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WHEN TRUTH IS STRANGER THAN FICTION (mild spoiler)

posted 6 years ago by kenburke (2348)
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One of the funnier scenes in the movie involved the cranky Aunt Edna dying. Since Clark was determined to get to Wally World, he left Aunt Edna outside a house with a note pinned to her body explaining everything. Make believe? At the time yes, but later on there was a news story about a group of guys who wanted to go somewhere. When one of them accidentally died, it was decided to leave the body somewhere with a note telling exactly what happened. The police were still annoyed, though.

[–] Culburn (3638) 6 years ago

Or, that case up in Idaho, or, some day place up there where the guy let that horse pork him. A while later he got to feeling poorly and requested some of the group take him to the ER. They drove him over there, then set him on the curb and drove off. He bled out sittin' there.

Police were annoyed then as well.

[–] BugisStreetAnnie (1296) 6 years ago

I remember that. There was a documentary about that called, "Zoo."