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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
In December 2014, Max Brown was picking through an Incline Village dumpster for a community service project when a collection of 1980s cassettes caught his eye. Fancying himself a collector, he pulled them out and inspected them.
Then he noticed the substantial pile of worn books buried beneath them.
Then it started raining.
Quickly, Brown grabbed about 15, all he could carry, and left, narrowly avoiding the snowstorm that was to blanket the area that night and ruin the books remaining in the dumpster.
It wasn't until six months had passed that Brown offhandedly bent back the cover of one of the books and saw "from the library of Thomas Jefferson" inscribed on the open page.
Upon reading those six words, Brown became a detective, beginning an archival search for answers that would span three years of his life, 220 years of the country's, and connect the hands of an American founding father to his own.
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(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 02 2018, @06:59PM (4 children)
Were dumpsters even invented yet in Jefferson's time? Obviously it wasn't him who through out the books.
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:02PM
*threw out, ugh
"Is that really true?" "I just spent the last hour telling you to think for yourself! Didn't you hear anything I said?"
(Score: 2) by AthanasiusKircher on Thursday August 02 2018, @07:28PM (1 child)
Yeah, I mean I thought the garbage men came late sometimes in my neighborhood -- but not clearing trash out for 200 years...?
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday August 02 2018, @08:39PM
It does make sense, if you consider how long it took to get a trash can all the way out to Incline Village at the time. That's one hell of a chore, and Little Timmy isn't coming back in for dinner until next year.
(Score: 2) by Gaaark on Friday August 03 2018, @10:40AM
No, it WAS him: he's moving on up...to the east side...to a deluxe apartment in the sky....
...he needed to down size.
--- Please remind me if I haven't been civil to you: I'm channeling MDC. ---Gaaark 2.0 ---