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'Spy' Found Stuck In Museum Shaft After 'Secret Mission' Fails
« on: September 18, 2008, 12:22:55 PM »
'Spy' Found Stuck In Museum Shaft After 'Secret Mission' Fails
Thursday September 18, 2008
CityNews.ca Staff


     Photo courtesy: Knoxville County Sheriff

Police in Knoxville, Tennessee admit they really don't know what the suspect they found stuck in an air conditioning shaft was doing there. And they may never get a clear answer, after Richard Anthony Smith claimed he was on a secret spy mission. 

Cops were called by the suspect himself after Smith allegedly tried to break into the local art museum. Authorities contend he scurried down an air conditioning duct in the pre-dawn hours Wednesday morning but became hopelessly stuck.

With no choice and in need of a rescue, Smith managed to fish out his cell phone and call 911.

That was strange enough. What happened next was simply downright bizarre. When crews managed to pull Smith out of his 45-foot deep predicament, he looked at them and shrugged. "Mission failed," he told them.

He then pulled out a badge with the number 0931 and told the incredulous cops he was a "special agent from the United State Illuminati" and that he'd rappelled down into the museum from a helicopter.

He insisted he was a on a secret mission to "defuse and confiscate" a Soviet-made nuclear warhead that was supposedly hidden inside a blue plastic cow sculpture he maintained was hidden in the museum's basement.

But Smith - and his apparently fictitious secret 'colleagues' - seem to be more like Maxwell Smart than James Bond when it comes to this mission 'impassible.'

He contends the 'agency' called him while he was in the shaft and told him the bomb was actually in a Memphis museum instead. By that time, Smith rambled, he'd become hopelessly stuck and couldn't get out.

He didn't explain why he called 911 and not the 'agency' to come and get him.

Cops quickly spied the truth behind his ridiculous story. He's now been charged with aggravated robbery and remains in custody. His rescuers are both amused and relieved that they discovered him when they did.

"Fortunately he was able to reach his cell phone," notes police spokesman Darrell DeBusk, "or he may not have been found for quite some time."
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Re: 'Spy' Found Stuck In Museum Shaft After 'Secret Mission' Fails
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2008, 12:29:42 PM »
thanks for wasting a minute of my life.

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Re: 'Spy' Found Stuck In Museum Shaft After 'Secret Mission' Fails
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2008, 12:30:11 PM »
You're welcome.  :D
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