The LocAl newspaper had startled the town with a piece about a "significant discovery" of some prehistoric cave paintings in the town. The paintings showed people and animals and included a deer hunt with the poor beast eventually getting slain. An enterprising young man, Ryan, had set up a tour system (for which there was a charge of course) and people flocked from the town and further afield. One of the visitors was an archaeologist who examined the drawings carefully. After close inspection he stood back and laughed. Those on the tour stopped in their tracks waiting for the archaeologist. "This is no cave art", he pronounced, "these drawings have been made using modern chalk!" The tour group grabbed Ryan demanding their money back. Ryan (who was the artist by the way) had to lay low for a couple of months.
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