He had brought rather non-standard electricity to it, digging his own trench down from thehouse, but even more ingeniously, he had made a little hole, about two inches square, in the plywood of the wall facing thehouse and put a tiny swing latch on it.
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 downthe road".
In a humorous speech, complete with a Little Lord Fauntleroy outfit, Van Zandt broughtdownthehouse: "To sound that black, you had to be Italian, " he joked.