On Fri, 02 Sep 2005 10:53:32 -0400, T o d d P a t t i s t
wrote in
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The adjacent road was quiet, there was no one
there, no houses nearby, just a couple of fields, so we
drove a quarter mile away to his house.

Wow! What a bizarre set of circumstances. Thanks for sharing.

Did you ever find out who alerted all the circus performers? Perhaps
a Good Samaritan called the police in one county, and they alerted the
other county police/fire departments, and the media was listening on
the scanner?

So what happened at the loony ranch? Did the inmates start eating the
fabric off the airframe? :-)