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Monday, February 06, 2006

The El Paso Chimney Story

Basil's Blog Friday Headline News, about a burglar getting caught in an oven vent brought to mind this story.

When I lived in El Paso, there were two or three good Barbeque Brisket places. One of them was Bill Parks' in central El Paso and another one (that shall remain nameless) was on the westside.

When the nameless brisket restaurant was "bought out" to build a new strip center, they decided to build a new restaurant nearby. Since they had such a good business at the old location, they decided to dissasemble the brick chimney and move it for good luck. However, when they were taking the chimney apart, they discovered within the chimney a carbonized cadaver.

They concluded that it was the body of an illegal that had hung around the restaurant for a while and when he disappeared, they assumed he had just moved on.

Instead, he apparently decided to slip down the chimney one night to break into the restaurant and got stuck, not realizing that the opening of the chimney at the grill was only a few inches square.

When the grill was fired up the next morning, because of the small opening, no one heard him.

The newspaper article made no estimate of how long the body had been there, nor did they say if the brisket restaurant went ahead and used those bricks. My guess is that they didn't.
Posted by: on-the-rocks / 12:37 AM
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