A sudden explosion rocked 290th street as a coupon factory burst into flames in northern Marshall Oct. 7.

Emergency teams and nearby residents rushed to the scene to investigate the incident and administer aid. But the mood of the scene quickly changed as the onlookers realized what kind of factory had just exploded – it was Joseph Bobble’s Printin’ Kangaroo LLC, a company that specialized in printing coupons for all major retailers in the area.

The atmosphere of the gathered crowd became glowing as slips for 15 cents off the next purchase of Cheerios rained down from the sky. Jessica Saver is a local who came to the scene upon seeing the 115-foot smoke plume from her house.

“I couldn’t even believe my luck,” Saver said. “I mean, I was headed to the store tomorrow to pick up some beef. Then this miraculous, violent explosion blew the factory sky high! And now I’m holding four different coupons for 6 cents off per pound of beef at Wal-Mart.  If I buy four pounds, that will almost add up to a whole dollar!

“I was so foolish,”  Saver continued. “At first when I saw the fireball launch into the sky from my house, I was consumed by worry because my brother works at Printin’ Kangaroos. But then coupons started raining from the sky, and now I’m going to get three for $3 bags of chips tomorrow.”

Saver briefly paused. “Speaking of which, where is my brother? Oh well. I’m sure all this good fortune will benefit his grocery shopping too.”

Jacob Jammer, the police commander, expressed his glee with the event.

“It really is just a terrific situation,” Jammer said “We are still working on it all, but our analysts are estimating somewhere around $45,000 in savings has occurred here today. It’s something you never think will happen to you, never to your community. But it happened today.” Jammer paused as he pulled out several 10 cents off per gallon of gas coupons, “And we couldn’t be happier.”

While some speculate that the explosion will negatively affect the workers, most employees on scene seemed jubilant. Brady Hardhat was in the factory when it blew up, but managed to crawl away despite his burns to join in the coupon grabbing excitement.
“I was working with my friend since childhood, Zack Galafak,” Hardhat said. “Suddenly there was a lot of commotion from the lower floor. Something about overheating. Next thing I knew, I woke up in a pile of buy one pizza get one free coupons.

“It’s just so splendid.” Hardhat said, wiping his tears of joy out of the large first degree burn on his nose. “I just wish Galafak was still with me to join in the savings.”

Even the owner of the factory, Joseph Bobble, made an appearance at the event.

“I guess this is early retirement!” Bobble said to the applause and laughter of the crowd right after a second explosion burned another large group of workers. “At first, I was understandably upset,” Bobble said. “But then the savings started raining down around me, and I realized my grocery shopping wasn’t going to be so bad tomorrow.”

It is not yet known how many—if any—people died during the explosion. But it is known that coupons are still floating around the burnt-out factory floor, meaning anyone can go and get some 49 cent cans of beans, so who really cares?