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What a dumb cluck Bob is, and he feels terrible about it.

Bob Garfield
Mar 21
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The internet said what now?

Do me a favor? If you happen to be in central Indiana this week, could you please swing over to Shelbyville and pop into ACL Lawn Care Group on Labelle Street? Ask for the manager, a fellow named Christopher Adams, and tell him I am very, very sorry.

Not that I’ve ever met Chris. Honestly, all I really know about him is that his landscaping business has a preponderance of 5-star reviews:

  • Great service, Christian values!

  • Good person.

  • Great service. Wonderful people. Without a doubt would recommend them to anyone.

  • Was passed by one of their marked trucks while driving. Driver was being very aggressive and tailgating, then proceeded to pass me in a no passing zone almost causing an accident ... meanwhile I was driving the speed limit.

Who even knows if that irritable last one is trustworthy? You know … the internet. Which sort of gets to my issue. Over the weekend, a Twitter friend retweeted a post by a filmmaker with 88,300 followers, who was passing along an article from New Jersey Brief headlined “Indiana Egg Farmer Transported to Hospital with a Live Adult Chicken Stuck in His Rectal Cavity.” On social media, for obvious reasons, it was spreading far and wide.

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