If you're like The Hound, sniffing out Christmas presents for your significant other gets harder every year. But, with the holiday shopping season ready to shift into high gear, the perfect gift --- a blue barrel --- is nearby.
Just think of the fun you can have with one of those plastic blue barrels, the type former Bolingbrook policeman Drew Peterson allegedly took out of his bedroom with the help of a relative. You could ask your significant other: "Is it your turn in the barrel or mine?"
Of course, the allegations are that Peterson's missing young wife, Stacy, was in the barrel. He denies any involvement in her disappearance. She remains missing and if you listen to Drew, she ran off to Peoria.
Where you get these blue barrels Drew knows and, one assumes, so do Illinois State Police investigators on the case. There was a time, though, when those barrels were known as 55-gallon drums. Perhaps this is a new, friendlier type of drum or maybe they're smaller than 55 gallons --- but just about right for a 100-pound woman.
Despite the fact it may scare the dickens out of a significant other, The Hound is on the trail of getting one of those blue barrels, though, and hopefully it will just squeeze under the tree.
Along with blue barrels, another aspect of the case is entering into young folks' vernacular. The Hound heard a young couple arguing in the mall the other day and the guy says, jokingly: You know, I could just Peterson you." Unsure if he, too, was on the lookout for a blue barrel.
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