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Wednesday, March 20, 2002

Well, you see, son, Santy Claus is magic
Or, Barbecue So Good It's Worth Doing Time For
Or, Why We Need Educational Reform
Or, Life of Crime Leads to New Life as Chimney Sweep

A would-be burglar almost gave new meaning to the Bob Sykes Barbecue slogan of "slow cooked in fine Southern tradition" before Bessemer firefighters extracted him Tuesday from one of the restaurant's vents. Sykes cook Alonzo Scott said he had just gotten to work around 4:30 Tuesday morning when a muffled male voice startled him. Scott said he thought it was a co-worker who had just arrived, yelling from outside to be let in. "I heard the voice again and looked," he said. Scott said he saw a pair of blue and white Reeboks dangling from above the hamburger grill. [...] Scott said he went to the roof and saw the top of the man stuck in the 10-foot-tall, one-foot-wide vent with his hands above his head. The man had climbed onto the roof on maintenance ladders attached to the back of the building. Back inside the restaurant, Scott said, he and a co-worker unsuccessfully tried to extract the man, then called 911. Scott said the man was most agreeable with calling the authorities. [...] "He was a greasy mess," Police Chief Ron Brown said. "It was good that he was stuck where someone could see him before they started cooking." Van Sykes, who owns the popular Bessemer restaurant, said purloining pork had to have been the burglar's motive. "There is no money here," Sykes said. "I don't know why someone would break in other than to take some barbecue." Scott said Dearman had applied for a job at Sykes about six months ago and recently returned to inquire about the job. "I told him to come back in two weeks," Scott said, "and I guess he came back in two weeks."

Yep, sure did.

posted by Terry at 8:42:00 AM

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