Storyboard Theft Ends Council Meeting
Wellington Leg: The mysterious disappearance of a storyboard left Towne Council members frozen in place for over two hours Monday morning. Working without a script several members of the maintenance staff began improvising dialogue in the hopes of stirring the committee into action. A proposal to rename Wellington Leg remains in abeyance as emergency writers were flown in from neighboring Buckshot Falls.
A sketch artist from Wellington Leg Forensic Services drew a picture of the thief who was originally thought to be Maximilian Bonaparte, Emperor of Mexico. It was only after an alert detective noticed a portrait of the Emperor as a young man that a new piece of paper was provided and a fresh drawing of dogs playing poker emerged.
While dogs are known to make off with things, police doubt that canines could have conspired to steal the storyboard with its detailed information on what comes next, who says what, and where everyone is supposed to standing when things do happen. “The storyboard is integral to Wellington Leg’s drama driven form of governance,” Professor Moriarity pointed out. “Without it, all is lost.”
Emergency writer Gunnar thought that Hizzoner, caught in mid-sneeze, should go ahead and finish the sneeze while others urged a more post modernist statement about nihilism. “Either way,” Gunnar said, “The man has to sneeze.”
A border collie wearing a beret was stopped and questioned near the Prince of Denmark Shopping Centre. “His alibi is that he was playing center field for the Detroit Tigers at the time of the theft,” DCI Borchardt huffed. Whether the Tigers are home or on the road was not immediately clear at press time. Voting on the name change will resume when a full time writer can be located. Meanwhile refreshments will be served at the Historic Rotunda near the statue of Balto. Heather de Medici reporting.