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Trouserless car-breaker fingers leprechaun

Paul F

As a Cincinnati resident... 

Coat

... I'm fairly certain that leprechauns were indeed egging him on. Lousy little buggers are everywhere around here. No pots of gold though, we got the cheap ones.

Anonymous Coward

Title 

I work in Cincy but live across the river, and I can verify their existance. They are poor kind and usually have a sign asking for my spare change.

Anonymous Coward

Drug use 

Coat

I place my money on drug use. Either too much or not enough, depending.

Dennis Price

Damnyankees... 

IT Angle

Leave it up to them......

Fancy

'..may indicate drug use' 

Coat

Straight from the No Shit Sherlock school of reporting.

The key question is, what we he doing with those speakers naked from the waist down?

Yeuch.

Anonymous Coward

ahh 

Mars

and now we know where amanfrommars lives

cor

Leprechauns ? 

Paris Hilton

Mmmmn'kaay.

So did they 'encourage' him to strip his trousers off? Explain that one ...

Forget the crock of gold, his story sounds like a crock of s**t.

mahoney

drugs? leprechauns? 

I'm sure it was a combination of the two... Every leprechaun I've ever known has fancied the drugs.

(p.s. reg: boo on the icons)

Andy Worth

Just wondering.... 

Joke

Am I the only one who got the completely WRONG mental image from the headline? I was going to ask if the leprechaun enjoyed it....

One-armed Freddy

Briliant 

If I was a leprechaun I'd definitely spend my free time luring people into cars that didn't belong to them. Then I'd phone the police and report them. Has anyone reported seeing a small Irishman in the court room, pissing himself laughing?

Stu

Blimey! 

Alien

Was it just me but does anyone else think the perp was just being sarcastic? I mean they dont understand irony or sarcasm over there.

And two guys from Cincinnati / Cincinatti above both vouch for the existence of leprechauns, right . . .

I'm planning my visit soon - the ganj over dere mizzay be wack. not-im-sayin?

Shitz bitch, saves me some-o-dat shizzle so me can hang wiv da gyangstaz.

Innit?

Steve Kelly

Ahhh 

Ahh the the aul leprechaun made me do it excuse, that's got me out of many a problem

Dalen

But maybe... 

Joke

It was a leper with no arms and legs?

Anonymous Coward

leprechauns, pancakes, sanity, etc. 

Happy

Anyone who seriously questions the role of leprechauns in strange human behavior should pick up Robert Anton WIlson's "The Cosmic Trigger" and start reading. Once you reach the section entitled "Did leprechauns leave the Simonton pancakes?" you'll be on your way.

Paul F

@ Stu 

"Was it just me but does anyone else think the perp was just being sarcastic? I mean they dont understand irony or sarcasm over there.

And two guys from Cincinnati / Cincinatti above both vouch for the existence of leprechauns, right . . ."

Absolutely correct sir. We have no idea what sarcasm is, nor would we recognize it when hit with a stick. Indeed, my sarcastometer has been on the fritz since Thursday past. Additionally, there is no way that any of my posts could in any way be considered sarcastic. I understand that across the pond you have "wit" and "repartee," leaving us with only rank humor, alas.

As such, I wholly doubt that the "perp" (as you say) would have been able to have used such an expression sarcastically, especially given the veritable plague of leprechauns that torment our fair metropolis so.

Fozzy

@Andy worth 

Paris Hilton

No you weren't. It would give new meaning to "Getting your freak on"

Anonymous Coward

.may indicate drug use 

dam right: pissed as a newt.

Anonymous Coward

I've heard of those leprechauns 

Alien

they take your clothes and tell you to hide out in a car till they get back cheap assed leperchauns. Of course he was on drugs and whiskey isn't everybody.They didn't say he had the speakers on him who do you think took them ghosts.

Ted Treen

Where's Webster? 

Go

When is Webster Phreaky going to say this guy was under the insidious influence of an ipod, and it's all Steve Jobs' fault, since it's obviously part of a cunning plan by an Apple Inc. intent on world domination? C'mon, Phreaky old boy:- you know you can do it...

andy gibson

@ fancy 

Happy

You asked what he was doing with the speakers and his trousers down? Maybe he was listening to Slade and "Cum on feel the noize" and mis-heard a key word from the chorus?

Anonymous Coward

Perhaps it was Jesus... 

Coat

And he spake unto the man, once i saw a man with no trousers?

Anonymous Coward

Not leprechauns 

That'd be pixies. They're always into mischief, and ever since they got to help ol' Willow they've been thinkin' even mo' o' themselves 'an usual.

laird cummings

Not Leprechauns, surely... 

Coat

I mean, the man was nude from the waist down... Obviously it was the Underpants Gnomes!

Exit, stage right!