Truth, as they say, is often stranger than fiction. To illustrate this, there are few better stories than one that’s come to be known as “the FBI Pizza Caper.”

            The story sounds so far-fetched that the internet fact-checking site Snopes.com decided to check it out. After researching it, they concluded that it is, indeed, true.

            The location of the incident was a psychiatric hospital near San Diego. A horde of FBI agents had descended upon the hospital’s business office one morning, armed not with guns but with calculators. They were searching for evidence of insurance fraud. Quickly, the crack team of investigators set to work, reviewing files and auditing financial records.

            Many hours later, the FBI agents were starting to work up an appetite. The agent in charge phoned a nearby pizza parlor to order dinner.

            The conversation, as reconstructed by agents who were there on site, went something like this:

Agent: Hello. I would like to order 19 large pizzas and 67 cans of soda.

Pizza man: And where would you like them delivered?

Agent: To the Southwood Psychiatric Hospital.

Pizza man: To the psychiatric hospital?

Agent: That’s right. I’m an FBI agent.

Pizza man: You’re an FBI agent?

Agent: That’s correct. Just about everybody here is.

Pizza man: And you’re at the psychiatric hospital?

Agent: That’s correct. And make sure you don’t go through the front doors. We have them locked. You’ll have to go around to the back, to the service entrance, to deliver the pizzas.

Pizza man: And you say you’re all FBI agents?

Agent: That’s

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