Police in Texas have raided a farmhouse and freed an African man who had allegedly been kept as a slave all his life. The 100-year old octogenarian identified himself as Gambian born Kunta Escapee, and claimed to have been picking ganja in the jungle last year when he was approached by a group of Americans.
Initially, he believed the Americans wanted to sell him timeshare in Florida, but then revealed their true intentions by placing him in a large sack and carrying him to a boat, which had been cleverly docked in a thicket.
He recalled that during the 3-year voyage to America, the entire ship's crew died of scurvy and he had had to steer the vessel into Dallas dock single-handedly, clamp himself in leg irons and drag himself to the Magic Mushroom Farm where he had spent the next 9 years of his life; oblivious to the fact that slavery had, in fact, been abolished 200 years ago.
State police interviewing the fifty year old Jamaican said that there was something not quite right about his story and refused to rule out the possibility that Escapee was a publicity seeker cashing in on the 200th anniversary of the abolition of slavery. "For one, he doesn't seem to be of African origin but is as pink as my wife's bare bee-hind", said Sheriff Bufus T. Dimwit of Roscoe county, Texas, adding, "We are investigating whether he might, in fact, be Michael Jackson, and have enlisted dozens of children to help".
Meanwhile, the owners of the farm where Escapee, 33, had been kept, said they had no idea he was there. "Apparently", said Reverend Kindheart, "he had snuck in five years ago, built a luxury condominium in our 200 acre farm and recently installed cable. We knew nothing about it at all until we started to get bills from cable companies".
