Richard Anthony Smith garnered attention this week after police and firefighters used a safety harness to pull the 25-year-old Knoxville man from the air vent at the museum. Smith used the rope from a flagpole atop the building at 1050 World's Fair Park Drive to lower himself down the vent. The recording shows Smith stoically relating his predicament to the call processor, after he identifies himself as an agent with "the United States Illuminati Order." "Right now, I am currently stuck inside of the air-conditioning unit on top of the Knoxville Museum of Art downtown at the World's Fair Park," Smith told the call processor via his cell phone. Smith told officers he had been assigned to defuse a Soviet nuclear bomb hidden in a blue plastic cow sculpture in the basement of the museum. Smith, however, related that he had been informed during his effort that the device actually was in a Memphis museum.

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