Here’s another mad-lib type of story for you to enjoy on your day before the weekend. I took this story from MSNBC, removed the names to protect the innocent, and left blanks for various words. As funny as this story can be with your help, the real story was much weirder.
The man has argued since his October arrest that he should not be punished for being ___________(adjective) in the privacy of his own home.
Police and ______________(celebrity), as well as the two women who testified against him, said he intended to ___________(verb) himself and made no attempt to conceal himself in a _____________ (location) filled with children.
“It’s really a ____________(noun) off my shoulders after these last six months,” he said after his acquittal. “I think (the verdict) kind of sets the record straight. It was an _____________(adjective) action.”
“When you know you’ve done nothing _____________(adverb), it’s hard to take these kind of accusations and not ___________(verb) up to it,” said the man, an out-of-work commercial ___________(occupation) who racked up thousands of dollars in legal fees.
At the time of his arrest, he was sharing a home in Springfield with other _______________(noun). He testified that his roommates had gone to __________(verb) and left him alone in the house for the first time in months. He was moving out, and decided to pack his ___________(noun) and make breakfast.
Two women testified that they saw him ____________(verb) that morning. The first, a school librarian, said she heard a loud ___________(noun). Then, as she drove by at about 6:40 a.m., she saw him and called 911.
A police officer came by the house, saw nothing _____________(adjective) and left.
