HOOCHIE PEVENS — SOME TRUTH SOME FICTION, YOU DECIDE?

BURGLARY IN FLORIDA

(You just can't make this stuff up!!) 

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 ½ white cardboard box filled with a

grayish-white powder.  (That's the way the police report described it.)

A spokesman for the Fort Lauderdale police said, 'It Looked similar to

high-grade cocaine and they'd probably thought they'd hit the big

time.'

Later, Nathan stood in front of 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 known

as Hoochie Pevens 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:  'Hoochie sold us the bogus blow, so we wasted

Hoochie.  Sorry that we snorted your sister.  No hard feelings.  

Have a nice day.’