141. The Petrol Station
The Secret Room | True Stories
Ben Hamm
4.4 • 2.5K Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2021
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Forty-two years ago Dave was framed for a crime he didn’t commit. Maybe you can figure out whodunnit?! Also, garden gnomes.
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| 0:00.0 | Thanks to Dipsy for supporting the Secret Room. |
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| 0:34.6 | What's your secret? |
| 0:36.2 | So once while my neighbors were at a town, I was walking by their house and noticed that |
| 0:40.9 | they're very prominent garden gnome and fallen over. |
| 0:44.8 | And while their yard just wasn't complete without it, so I went up this short hill to |
| 0:49.2 | the top of their lawn to stand it back up. |
| 0:52.1 | But when I went to pick it up, I was surprised at just how heavy it was. |
| 0:56.5 | Well, kind of slipped out of my grass, fell back over and then proceeded to roll down the |
| 1:01.5 | hill toward the street. |
| 1:03.0 | I hit the sidewalk pretty hard and smashed into several pieces. |
| 1:07.3 | And I stood there like, oh my goodness, what have I done? |
| 1:12.5 | I looked around and probably looking really guilty, I'm sure, but to my knowledge, there |
| 1:17.4 | are no witnesses. |
| 1:18.7 | I was frozen for a minute, but then my gut just told me to flee the scene of the busted |
| 1:24.4 | garden gnome. |
| 1:25.6 | So I casually walked away and never looked back. |
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