CL wrote:

>  -- like the time I found a naked woman who had been bound 
> hand and foot with electrical wire and then strangled in the graveyard I 
> cut through to get to the public park's running track.  Persuading a 
> temple priest to give his prayers a rest for five minutes and let me 
> call the cops from inside the temple was one of the more strange events 
> I have ever experienced at six in the morning.  The cops asked for my 
> name and address and never asked me for ID.  They just wanted to know 
> when I found her, if I'd touched her, which footprints and fingerprints 
> might have been mine and where did I get the training to know she was 
> dead and know about how long since she'd been murdered before I called 
> it in.
> 
> Of course, I don't recommend murdering a 25-year-old OL just so you can 
> find her and get on the good side of the cops ...

Events like this lend your life texture. Every once in a while, I start 
a story with "Ever since my neighbor burnt his grandmother to death in 
my side yard ....". Never fails to rivet their attention.

KWW