When 'The Benny Hill Show' meets a Eugene, Oregon gasoline thief

Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2020/04/07/when-the-benny-hill-show-m.html

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U-Haul’s

that is all

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all sort’s of antic’s.

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At least there were no flame’s.

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Stealing gasoline at today’s prices? Not worth the trouble.

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so Benny Hill Show was a radio drama? Funny story NTL. As for U-HAUL trucks, probably better outcome for all.

I’ve been mad before, but not mad enough to throw a firework at someone.

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Police questioned an injured man at a local hospital then charged him under the Liar Liar Pants-on-Fire statute.

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Exactly. That’s what Roman Candles are for.

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“Fleeing the scene with his pants on fire.” So he’s a thief AND a liar.

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Wasn’t this also an episode of Breaking Bad?

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Yeah, contraction and shortening for screen space. The full sentence should read “U-Haul is done gone burst into flames!”

They didn’t even use a proper apostrophe, it was a single straight quote mark. Those are for indicating measurements such as length in feet or minutes in latitude, dangit!

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That depends on whether you still have a job.

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Portrait video plus wtf apostrophe

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Benny Hill Show?

No Yakkity Sax . . .

No people running around . . . .

I call shenanigans!

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Yeah, this is how I remember the Benny Hill show. A woman would sit at a desk and utter a series of declarative sentences about a heavy-set man and an older gentleman, described by onlookers as being bald, in an indifferent tone of voice with some ritual emphasis on the ends of sentences. Oh, how we used to laugh, or ‘larf,’ as individuals in the United Kingdom, from which Benny Hill is said to originate, are known to say.

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