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From snopes.com
In his article "It Was a DeSoto," Louie W. Attebery writes about
locating three articles that ran on in the Denver Post on
consecutive days in 1960 and reported a story similar to the
legend. In this case, a driver hired to deliver a load of concrete
for a house addition grew irate after he waited for an hour and
no one showed up at the home to take delivery. Suspecting that
the owner was getting even with him for winning a $20 bet, the
driver dumped his load of wet mix into the left rear window of
the owner's DeSoto. The owner, in turn, claimed he had called
the concrete company 90 minutes earlier and cancelled the
order. Attebery notes, however, that the two men were friends,
and that the whole incident might have been planned as a
publicity stunt for the concrete company.
Drew Diaz
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