"Fried Fridays: Shafted!"

Yes, I understand the title could easily refer to the falling of financial giants this week...after all, many a person and business has now lost a boatload of worth, and the ripples won't quit anytime soon. Besides, it's more 'scary' than 'fried'...

No, this week's winner goes to someone who apparently is a legend in his own mind...

DATELINE: KNOXVILLE, TN

Army troops go on missions. Church groups go on mission trips. I go on a mission to find my car keys most days. Ah, but one young man was on a very special, secret mission...

25-year old Richard Anthony Smith is a self-avowed "special agent from the United States Illuminati, badge number 0931." His mission: to locate a Soviet-made nuclear warhead, (if you must know, a MERV6SS-22AN warhead), defuse it and then confiscate it. According to Smith, the bomb was believed to be hidden in a blue, plastic cow sculpture in the basement...

...of the Knoxville Museum of Art.

There was only one problem: Smith told officers his "agency" called to say it made a mistake and the bomb might be in a Memphis museum instead. Oh yeah, there was a second problem...

Smith got stuck in an air conditioning vent below the museum's roof and was forced to call 911.

When he was lifted out of his tight lodgings some 45 feet down below the roof, he told officers a helicopter dropped him off on the roof so he could use a long rope and descend into the museum. He then went on explain his 'mission' in detail and had this to add:

"Mission failed," said a dejected Smith.

You don't say...

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From yesterday's post, at the bottom, was the picture of the Bengal tiger, and I said 'find the hidden tiger'...go back and look at the tiger's stripes...they spell out "the hidden tiger".