"Sven The Drop-Out Is Now Half-Baked"
A one time Sven drove a snow plow for the Minnesota Highway Department, but after he got busted two times for driving a snow plow while intoxicated he was fired.
Unable to find a job because of his sorry work record, Sven claims that circumstances beyond his control forced him into a life of crime to support his basic needs. You should know that Sven left the Minnesota education system permanently during his eighth grade year.
On this particular night, Sven decides to break into the Penguin Bar and Grill and see what he can find. Within minutes, he sets off a burglar alarm. Not long after that, he hears sirens coming from all directions. No wonder, it’s two o’clock in the morning in the wintertime in Minnesota. Everybody who’s not a cop or a burglar is in bed under warm covers.
Sven decides to take evasive action. He climbs into the ventilating system but before police arrive Sven, who weighs a little over 200 pounds, falls through the ceiling tiles.
Next he decides to slip out through the back door, but there’s already a police searchlight covering the back wall of the restaurant.
Moments before police enter the bar and grill, Sven disappears. A police captain announces over a loudspeakers system, "We know you’re in there. Come out with your hands held high and nobody gets hurt."
Minutes tick by and there’s nothing. No sound. No movement. Then a team of cops enter the building simultaneously from the front and back. They spot the broken-out tile in the ceiling, but otherwise there’s no trace of a burglar.
Police check the walk-in cooler. Then the ovens. In the second oven they find Sven all folded up like a Christmas turkey. "The idiot was half-baked anyway," says the police captain jokingly. The cops haul him out of the oven, cuff him and take him to the Otter Tail County Jail where he’ll have plenty of time to cool off.
Copyright-Bob Ford 2005
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