He spots a parrot with a higher than normal price tag.
"Why is this bird so expensive?" he asked the shop owner
"Oh well, it's a very special parrot you see" the owner replied "if you lift its right leg, it will sing a you hymn. And if you lift its left leg, it will recite a psalm"
"Wow!" the man was clearing impressed "what would it say if i lift both it's legs?"
"I will fall down, you moron" the parrot said from behind.
Initially they didn't talk much, but after a little time they started having family get-togethers. They became good friends for a while, even going so far as to have little decoration challenges every holiday.
Omar always pulled out all the stops come Christmas, and he seemed to enjoy it so much that, often, Chris would concede and just admire his neighbor's over-the-top yuletide spirit.
But one year, Chris felt like upping the ante and properly competing. So instead of doing a large spread of house decor, Chris commissioned the construction of an enormous lawn ornament.
The next evening, Omar looked across the lawn and gasped--there, standing taller than a house, was a towering statue of Thor, colorfully lit and dressed like an elf.
He laughed it off as ridiculous and tacky, but to his surprise it was drawing much more attention, from strangers and neighbors alike, than his own festive manor.
More than a little disgruntled that he was no longer the talk of the HOA, he made his irritation known at dinner. Curious, his oldest daughter went over to see this titan in person.
Later that night, Chris awoke to his children's shouts. He ran to the window and saw his beautiful Elf Thor flaming. The fire department came, but too late, as the damage was done and the magnificent creature destroyed.
Chris checked the cameras and saw what looked like a teenager approaching the statue, but before he could make out who it was, the feed cut. All footage past this point was corrupted.
Distraught, he reached out to Omar and admitted how important it was to him to win the decor war just one year, and he just wished he could find out who this kid was. Omar consoled him as best he could, but now worried he was going to have to confront his daughter....
He knocked on her door and asked her to be honest with him. She scoffed, and pulled up the house security on her laptop. Sure enough, there she was, walking back to the house only 10 minutes after leaving to see the statue. According to the CFI, the fire started over an hour later.
We may never learn the truth, but we know one thing for certain:
A few young guys were bored on a Saturday night and decided to go drive a roundabout. It was in the middle of the night, no other cars, so they decided to drive the roundabout in reverse. Suddenly, a car came from behind and rear-ended them.
The cops were called and both cars were waiting. When the cops finally showed up, the guys were scared shitless because, well, they had driven the car in reverse in the roundabout.
But when the cops knocked on their window they said "there's nothing to be worried about fellas, the driver behind you just blew 0.2% in the breathalyzer and is claming you guys drove the roundabout in reverse".