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   "The totaled '65 Mustang was obvious, as well as the rusting hemi. There's still over 2000 pounds of material to identify, but from the smell of it I'm guessing it's compost material."

     Linda Sanchez, a neighbor of Rhodes, described her feelings regarding the incident.

     "I got home from work and saw five flatbed trucks parked in front of his house," she said. "I thought he was moving out, but then another neighbor told me what was happening. If they were taking his junk to the dump, they should have cleared the cars off his front lawn as well."

     Several neighbors described Rhodes as a quiet and unsocial man who kept to himself. He allegedly had a habit of collecting odd items.

     "He's a pack-rat," neighbor Bob Gianulli said. "He never threw anything away. Maybe his wife finally got fed up with him and told him he needed to dump some things."

     Authorities said charges will be filed against Rhodes, but he will be difficult to prosecute. He may be fined and jailed if convicted, but proving his fraud depends on whether or not he truly believes his story.

     "He seems a little crazy to me," Gianulli said.

Texan Dupes NASA

CLAIMS BACKYARD JUNK IS SHUTTLE DEBRIS

February 7-- Federal Authorities are considering filing criminal charges against a 43-year-old Texas man after he convinced NASA to haul away entire contents of his half-acre backyard.

     Richard Alan Rhodes, a resident of Nacogdoches, informed NASA on February 2nd of suspicious items that allegedly fell from the sky directly into his backyard. He explained that the items were metallic objects that "must be parts of the Columbia space shuttle", according to his written statement.

     NASA representatives were immediately dispatched to his residence, where they secured the area and began collecting the items he described. The recovered debris was transported to the NASA inspection facility in Lousiana before lead engineer Roger Baker exposed his hoax.

     "Of the 4.5 tons of debris collected from (Mr. Rhodes') property, three tons have been identified as automobile parts," Baker said.

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