East Tennessee father succeeds in blaming gas on two-year-old son

A Clinton father of two Monday convinced three people in his immediate vicinity that his young son was the source of a particularly rancid burst of flatulence. Chris Hilliard, 28, successfully employed a strategy of sniffing his son Jayden's backside and saying, "Did you make poopy?" Hilliard then immediately responded, "Oh you did" in a cutesie voice. His son, who has not yet mastered the English language, failed to call his father a lying bastard. "I think I sold it," said Hilliard. "I knew when I ate beans and eggs in the same meal that I was asking for trouble. But after I blamed it on Jayden, I took him to the side and changed his diaper, even though it was clean. They seemed convinced. That's not going to work in a few more months. But for now it's you and me, egg, asparagus and bean burritos."