A comment by a Facebook friend today got me thinking about nutty calls I used to field when I worked for the Huntington, W.Va., newspaper. There was the woman who claimed Hillary Clinton had cleaned out her bank account while Bill was in town campaigning, and there was the guy who demanded a correction to a cops brief because, he said, his brother hit that other guy with a tire iron, not a whiskey bottle.
Then there was the woman all agitated, wanting us to do a story about how the Army Corps of Engineers was about to dredge the island at the mouth of the Big Sandy River. She said the island had a lot of junk cars on it, but it needed to be saved because it was the home of the last remaining colony of North American penguins. At times like that you don't argue that there is no island at the mouth of the Big Sandy. You thank them and hang up.
And wonder who will come along next to top that one.
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As someone once told me, "It's what you learn after you know it all that counts..."
Hoooweeee. I thought the woman who told me aliens had landed in Clendenin was nuts. Sounds like you've met your share and then some.
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