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Comment of the Day: The Joe Wilson/James Brown Trash Photo Mystery

Some of you people don't just comment on specific posts. Sometimes you comment in #tips, and sometimes those comments are amazing mysteries. Like the commenter who posted this picture of Joe "You Lie!" Wilson and departed soulster James Brown.

Comment of the Day: The Joe Wilson/James Brown Trash Photo Mystery
Questions that arise from this:

1) Obviously MoCo's astute 'Why was someone rooting around in Joe Wilson's trash?" question.
2) Why is there a "pile of trash" outside Joe Wilson's house?
3) Why did Joe Wilson throw this treasured keepsake away?
4) Why would this commenter think they could just post the picture with no explanation?
5) Why, in general?

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