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In the fall of 1984, a television station in Hartford, Connecticut held a contest.
If you won, you'd be picked up in a limo and taken to see Boy George and the Culture Club perform at the Hartford Civic Center.
One of the winners was a 22 year old named Robert Harris.
The television station said they would send a camera crew to film him getting picked up by the president of the station.
Well, this is going to be an exciting day.
After picking up Robert, the limo drove a few blocks and then suddenly it stopped.
The driver said he had a FL.
Tire and the driver pulled over and we were filming this.
This is Toby Roach.