V LEVEL UNIT 9 NIGHT Lesson 2 B

John Franklin , a cleaner from Illinois , decided last month to mail
himself to his best friend as a birthday surprise .
He climbed into a large crate and got his wife to mail him to his friend ? s house thirty miles away . ____________________ , crate got lost , and ____________________ , the Mr . Franklin's shouts and frantic banging , his plight was not discovered for six days .
? Try ____________________ ____________________ ____________________ , I just couldn ? t get anyone ? s attention , ? said Franklin .

Postal workers recalled hearing faint banging noises , ____________________ assumed it was the depot ? s heating system . Franklin's wife described her husband as ? a raving lunatic . ?

? Saying ____________________ , I did get a six - day break from his incessant pranks , ? she added .

Employees at a cell phone store arrived at work on Tuesday morning to ? nd that the store had been broken
into . ____________________ , the only items missing were hollow replica display phones .
____________________ ____________________ , they look real , they are completely
worthless , ? said store manager Eva Martinez . ? We ? ve got hundreds of real phones on the premises , yet the thieves just walked right past them . it ? s a mystery . ?
____________________ the minimal loss , the store owners nevertheless
reported the theft to local police , who are investigating .