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The UK’s Westmorland Gazette files a report on a burning chair and gets 74 comments. California’s Lodi News-Sentinel has this:

Local jazz musician injured after leaping from burning motor home
By Layla Bohm
News-Sentinel Staff Writer
Last updated: Saturday, Feb 24, 2007 – 07:02:48 am PST

A jazz musician was injured Friday after jumping from a burning motor home driven by a one-time roller skating stripper from Lodi.

But gets just 3 comments:

wellwell wrote on February 24, 2007 3:55 PM:”Who in God’s name wants a 49 year old male stripper?”

Federal Duck wrote on February 28, 2007 11:18 AM:”This is worse than that time my orthodontist got chased through Bloomingdale’s wearing a black silk tiara and cowboy boots by a group of deaf-mute haberdashers wielding tent poles they stole from the travelling llama circus down the road. Oh, it’s not worse? … yeah, sorry.”

Dan wrote on February 28, 2007 12:18 PM:”Best opening line ever?”

The lesson? There has to be one in here somewhere…