A Jimmy Olsen Caper

These guys who ALLEGEDLY tried to bug Senator Mary Landrieu's phone, some conservative activists, ALLEGEDLY posed as telephone repairmen to gain access.

I wonder if they had fake mustaches and the whole bit. It sounds like something from an episode of The Adventures of Superman, my old favorite show as a kid. In the episode "Superman Week" Jimmy Olsen poses as a telephone repairman to infiltrate some crooks' apartment and get a story of some sort. They figure out it's a scheme when his big phony looking mustache keeps falling off. They give him truth serum and he spills the goods about Superman being something more than allergic to Kryptonite.

My memory is going a little hazy on the episode. But there's a sculptor in it and Herb Vigrin, one of the series' constant bad guys, has taken his place. The Kryptonite (apparent Kryptonite) is in a hollowed out place in the back of the Superman bust's head. Anyway, not to give away the whole ending, Superman survives.

So, ahh yes, the old Telephone Repairman Scheme. Takes me back!