Glad to know that snopes article is there so I don't have to dig up the word doc with the story on that pic. Basically the same story snopes had. I got the pic and story honestly (virally/forwarded email) circa 2000 when I was living in the DC area.
Cool to see the newspaper stuff, hadn't seen that before.
BTW I missed the original Chad story - what happened? Unsecured mdf in a pickup truck bed?