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SCARY PRANKSTER
Faking one's death is an American literary tradition, dating at least to the fictional fake deaths of Tom Sawyer and his pals in Mark Twain's famous novel. But just writing about such shenanigans wasn't enough for "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" author Ken Kesey, who apparently faked his own death in 1966 to dodge drug charges. Kesey, goes the story, absconded to Mexico while his friends left a suicide note in his abandoned truck on a cliffside road in California. Kesey was arrested and jailed for five months when he returned to the United States.
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