Sometime in the 60s Playboy published a single panel cartoon showing a bread truck getting held up by a few guys with very straggly hair. Whether you would call them Hippies or Beatniks I guess would have depended on your definition of what either of the genus would look. Little matter.
The slang for the era, either from Beatniks, Hippies, or just people talking "cool," was to refer to money as "bread." Use it in a sentence? Sure. "Man, I just plain don't make enough bread to pay all these bills." You could probably still say today and people would understand you.
The cartoon shows one of the Hippies or Beatniks pulling something out of the back of the ruck and looking at it and declaring: "Hey man, it really is bread."
The cartoonist's message is that the perps were so stoned they held up a bread truck thinking it was an armored truck. They did get a lot of bread, but not so much they could pay off any bills they owed.
It's taken a long time, but in a sense, this scenario has played out in real life. It's a pretty recent incident of the two people who snuck into what they thought was a fully abandoned dwelling in order to smoke some pot in private. It doesn't matter what state they were in, or whether the pot was legally acquired. They simply went into a place to smoke a joint. Or two.
The garage seemed like an easy place to get into, but not a good place to stay and smoke. Why? The individuals encountered a fully-grown tiger in a cage in a corner of the garage.
The news story reports they reported the presence of the tiger via a 311 call to the police, who in turn referred the call to Animal Control Officers (BARC). How they transmitted the call, via cell phone or pay phone (good luck finding one of those) was not disclosed. Only that the animal control officers met them at the site.
But it took a little convincing of the control officers that they were really going to find a tiger in a cage if they investigated. The report was met with skepticism of the first order because the person making the report sounded stoned.
The officers on arriving were rewarded with finding a genuinely caged tiger and a reaction that went: "Hey man, it really is a tiger."
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