My brother-in-law is a competitive meat smoker. Snicker. What I mean to say is that he smokes meat and enters competitions. It is a hobby more fraught with peril than you would imagine.
Last night, my brother-in-law was preparing some meat for an upcoming competition. It was getting really late (the meat has to be smoked for a ridiculous amount of time), so he decided to get in his truck where he could catch a little nap, but still keep an eye on the smoker (a huge converted propane tank; homemade, of course). About 3 am, he was awakened by some sort of noise. When he checked the smoker, he discovered that 60 pounds of pork had been meat-napped!
Wait; it gets better.
The dastardly meat-nappers were apparently unaware that they were dripping a trail of greasy pork goodness as they made their getaway. My brother-in-law called the police (pigs?), followed the trail, and the thieves were apprehended.
The recovered meat took 2nd place.
Seriously.
21 comments:
LMAO wow, I guess you really don't mess with a man and his meat.
Great story! (and I know how serious that meat business can get!)
I know that much meat can cost a pretty penny, not to mention the added value of the smoker's skill. I'm glad he got his meat back - and winning 2nd place with it was a real bonus!
OMG I'm laughing so hard! I just read this one out loud to my husband because it was just too good not to share! What a beautiful story - seriously. ha! thanks for the kind words on my blog - things are a mess here, but we're all warm, safe and dry. :)
Wow! So glad your brother got the meat-nappers and was able to enter his competition.
Well, you and your brother surely got my day off with a BIG laugh!! What a hoot!! Saved the meat, won second prize and beat the meat-nappers!! I love it!
I love a story with a happy ending.
you could not make that up! :)
meat smokers....and meat nappers....this is quite a dastardly thing going on here....
You couldn't have made that up! LOL
LOL you couldn't make it up!
That's really low. I've heard from politicians about cutting pork, but cutting and running *with* the pork?
That title is hilarious.
Wow what a story. Were the people hungry?
Ooooooookay.
Hope the meat was tasty.
Someone obviously didn't want him to win the competition. Glad there was still some meat left to be judged. Great story!
Too funny!
Wow - truth really is stranger than fiction. :)
I'm glad the thieves were arrested.
That's the funniest thing I've read in days.
Glad it had a happy ending! You can't make that stuff up. :)
Maybe it was his competition?!
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