I couldn't make this stuff up if I tried. As I walked to meet Paul and a friend for dinner I was stopped by a polite looking young man.
"Sorry to bother you, but I'm just here on a short trip."
I was expecting him to ask me for directions, which is more often than not the case here, but instead he whipped out a stack of papers at which point I knew I was about to be asked for money.
From the look of him I was expecting ACLU or Greenpeace or some other hippie-liberal organization, but instead?
"During the Bush Administration a microchip was implanted into my brain stem [points to a document with a picture of a brain on it]. I'm trying to raise $28 so I can get a state ID so I can have surgery to have the chip removed."
Um, what?
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