“The Payson Police Department would also like to take this opportunity to encourage the public not to use methamphetamine or you too may find yourself illegally purchasing a wild owl, for $100, in the middle of the night, from strangers, at a local gas station”
Oh, sure we have a cultural bias against this, but this actually is a revered Japanese tradition, as reflected in the hallowed art of haiku. Some examples:
Local gas station –
In the middle of the night –
Buying a wild owl
Drug-addled strangers
Exchanging nocturnal birds
For ten thousand yen
On the midnight shift –
Wild avian transaction –
7-Eleven!
The closest American equivalent I can remember is this series of signs on old Route 66, but they just don’t have the same delicate sensibility:
Meth is murder
On your bowels
And you’ll end up
Buying owls
=== Burma Shave
(Or as it is now known, Myanmar Shave)
I have heard that the owls are not what they seem. Perhaps that explains the meth, instead of vice versa.
This is some of your best work, sir.