This is some funny stuff that Lester is writing. Oh, yes – this is Lester who was doing the music videos for a while. Now he’s turned his attention to the art of detection and observation. Good stuff Les.
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Mystery of the Gas Leak
April 15, 2010 by Abe Lester, Amateur Detective
Sometimes all it takes to be a good detective is an acute sense of smell. Like a bloodhound or bomb-sniffing dog. This was certainly the case when I happened to be walking my canine sidekick last week.
I don’t know if Buddy smelled the gas, but I certainly did. It was wafting up through several manhole covers clearly marked with the word “gas,” about half a block from the location of an underground transcontinental natural gas pipeline that runs from Canada to Texas.
This worried me. Just the week before, a gas explosion had leveled a brand new house in a town not far from mine. I recalled the TV interview with the owner who tearfully explained how he had saved up for many years to buy a new house and just as it was being finished a worker had apparently struck a gas line and caused a leak. Thankfully no one was injured.
The unmistakable sulfurous odor so close to this huge pipeline was even more worrisome. All it would take to blow up the entire town would be a lit cigarette thrown into the street. I knew I had to do something and do it quick. Unfortunately, I am one of the few people left on earth who doesn’t own a cell phone, so I had to depend on a passerby for help.
The first person I ran into was the town’s traffic officer. He was riding towards me at five miles an hour in his mini-car looking for parking violators when I shouted out to him. He is a very old man and I don’t think he heard me, so I had to practically step in front of his mini-car to make him stop. I probably would have damaged the car if it hit me. [more at http://abelester.wordpress.com/
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