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Dr. Eowyn posted: "A standard joke about mental hospitals is that the
patients are not just delusional, but are also afflicted with grandiosity.
Thus, they imagine themselves to be someone they're not. That's the
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A standard joke about mental hospitals is that the patients are not just
delusional, but are also afflicted with grandiosity.
Thus, they imagine themselves to be someone they're not.
That's the delusional part.
But rarely, if ever, do they imagine themselves to be some low-status
person, such as a janitor or a fast-food worker. (No offense to janitors or
fast-food workers! I worked behind the counter at a fast food A & W
Drive-In when I was in junior college.)
Instead, delusional mental patients invariably think they are famous people
like Napoleon, or Cleopatra, or the Pope, or even God.
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jacket]<http://fellowshipofminds.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/strait-jacket.jpg>
One long night while investigating a San Diego psychiatric hospital for
medical insurance fraud, dozens of FBI agents had worked up an appetite. So
an agent called a nearby pizza parlor for delivery. What follows is the
conversation with the pizza server. It was recorded by the FBI because,
well, that's what the FBI does:
Agent: Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of soda.
Pizza Parlor Employee: And where would you like them delivered?
Agent: We're over at the psychiatric hospital.
Pizza Person: The psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's right. I'm an FBI agent.
Pizza Person: You're an FBI agent?
Agent: That's correct. Just about everybody here is.
Pizza Person: And you're at the psychiatric hospital?
Agent: That's correct. And don't go to the front doors, we have them
locked. You will have to go around back, to the service entrance.
Pizza Person: And you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. How soon can you have them here?
Pizza Person: And everyone at the psychiatric hospital is an FBI agent?
Agent: That's right. We've been here all day and we're starving.
Pizza Person: How are you going to pay for all of this?
Agent: I have my checkbook right here.
Pizza Person: And you're all FBI agents?
Agent: That's right. Everyone here is an FBI agent. Can you remember to
bring the pizzas and sodas to the service entrance in the rear? We have the
front doors locked.
Pizza Person: I don't think so.
Click
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*It turns out this is a true incident!*
According to Snopes <http://www.snopes.com/medical/asylum/fbipizza.asp>, in
1993 the FBI was assisting the Dept. of Health and Human Services in
investigating health care fraud in Southwood Psychiatric Hospital in Chula
Vista, CA.
The FBI agents eventually did get their pizzas, but the pizza place didn't
deliver the food. Several agents had to drive over to the restaurant to
pick up the pizzas!
H/t FOTM's pnordman :D
*~Eowyn*
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