Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 07, 2012

Delivering drinks by model trains!????Pizza King in Central Indiana has been doing that for the best part of a decade!

Can’t remember the name of the restaurant, but remember my father-in-law telling me about a place north of Chicago that served not only the drinks, but the entire meal on model trains.

You can’t imagine what people send, or try to send in the mail.

There’s a place in Milwaukee that delivers food and drinks from flying saucers that drop from the ceiling. There were also two made-for-TV movies about postal law enforcement. The Inspectors (1988) was about mail bomb terrorism and The Inspectors 2: A Shred Of Evidence(1990) was about identity theft. Both starred Louis Gossett, Jr., and were fairly decent films.

Jerry Seinfeld noted the “Wanted” posters at the post office and suggested that they be made into stamps so the mail carriers might readily compare them to the people they saw.

Re mail inspectors: One investigation began when a box was dropped, ripped open and a concrete block fell out! Investigators were suspecting mail order fraud, and paid a call to the electroncs store that mailed it.Learned that someone (from another state) had bought a transceiver, took delivery at the store, but to get around the sales tax, replaced it with the block to mail to his home to make it look like it had been mailed.Actually, even mailing the concrete block was illegal. Some years ago, someone was building a church in the South-West. After learning the cost of having bricks brought in by wagon or trucks (freight) determined that they could have the bricks wrapped and sent by post office cheaper! When PO learned what was going on, made a regulation against mailing of building materials!

Joe Murphy also has “Toys in the Attic”, not to mention “Bats in His Belfry”! jk

Young boys can take lessons from Joe Murray and excavate their basements,too. We have in our area The Little Red Caboose-a hot dog stand made from a train caboose.

The Whistle Stop Cafe in Des Plaines, IL delivered your meal via model train.

The Post Office police have a rep for being pretty dogged… I read of a breakin at a combination store/post office. The perps left a chalk line on the floor of the store, and a note saying they had not crossed the line into the Post Office area. Breakin is one thing… breakin with a side order of federal trouble is something else.