there’s this college kid, see, who due to inspiration or a few beers stole several of those barrels striped orange-and-white that surround road construction he spent a few hours making a fifteen-foot creature thumbing a ride returned the monster to the roadside he was apprehended of course the hitchhiker destroyed can’t remember the sentence a fine community service maybe a little jail time but the interesting thing people loved the barrel behemoth so did the firm that makes the barrels they want him to construct another maybe it will stand on their landscaped lawns be their logo I’m not sure there’s a moral to this tale except I admire art boldness inspiration action humor the kid didn’t swipe any barrels whose lack would send a pedestrian or motorist plunging into a tar pit I’m pretty certain

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