Bryant

I think it was Jason who first showed me this one!

it always struck me that, though it was funny, the orientation of the video (especially as contextualized via youtube) seemed blatantly racist. after a minor amount of digging, I found this local response to the whole thing
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"Well I'm from Mobile, AL where this story comes from. This s**t was a joke made up by a few people in that area to see how far they could get the joke to go. They were going to stop but the s**t exploded like wild fire. The hood hyped up the story because they were able to charge people $1 to park in their hood to see this “Leprechaun”. One guy made between $150-200 in a 2-week span from this complete bulls**t. They got so much buzz going that the media came out to do a story on it. Two of the people in the news story are from that area and showed they a** on TV to increase the hype. The only sad people in this story are the media people who spent time covering this s**t. So lighten up people it was just a joke. If you noticed, no one spoke real serious about seeing the Leprechaun. They all said it with a joking smile. The funniest shit in that story was the black guy saying he was a leprechaun hunter and the flute he had was passed down to him through his Irish heritage. I get so sick of people trying to make everything into a racial issue. There are hundreds of stories done every year in small hick towns in the Midwest about White people seeing aliens and everyone in that city plays along to increase the revenue in that area. That is all that happened here."

which to me makes the event even more amusing. it's like turning around and looking around curiously in a big lecture...people are gonna look 4 dat leprechaun...

I never figured anything about the story was true, as it was just too ridiculous, especially when the woman is talking about the leprechaun being on crack and the passenger in her car laughing uncontrollably.

Anyway, your comment caused me to spend some time researching this stuff further and found this hilarious leprechaun rap and a better summary of the entire situation.

for what it's worth, here is the screwed/chopped remix (a better fit):
http://www.xstechatlanta.com/xstechatlanta/wheredagol.mp3