He had brought rather non-standard electricity to it, digging his own trench down from the house, but even more ingeniously, he had made a little hole, about two inches square, in the plywood of the wall facing the house and put a tiny swing latch on it.

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The calls to the 999 emergency number included a man reporting that "someone robbed my marmalade", a woman saying her sister had brought a stray dog into her house and a man stating that he had seen "a chicken walking down the road".

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In a humorous speech, complete with a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, Van Zandt brought down the house: "To sound that black, you had to be Italian, " he joked.

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