On a non-Valentine’s Day-related note, the answer to last week’s entry, which asked readers to identify the fake news story, is story #1 — a grandmother in California did NOT use a watermelon to incapacitate a burglar. That means story #2 about the Colombian thieves who used watermelon rinds to slide an ATM machine out of a store is true. Read all about it here.
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True and hilarious, wow. I know the guard and employees didn’t think it was so funny. To bad the thieves didn’t get that much and were caught 12 hours later.
Hilarious indeed, Ellen. Too bad they were caught 12 hours later…so you’re rooting for the thieves? I like the way you think! o