One Night, While Drunkenly Perusing The Internet, I Stumbled Upon A True Gem.

The National Crime Prevention Council Web site was offering free copies of its "McGruff the Crime Dog" comic book to anyone who filled in the required information. With every last shred of sobriety in my body, I plugged in the appropriate data and then reclined, waiting for my find to arrive.

Eight weeks later, my McGruff illustrated workbook showed up in the mailbox.

Like a 13-year-old unwrapping his first Playboy, I ran upstairs to my room and pored over the comic.

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