Real events that have given you ideas for Simpsons episodes?

Well I have one from here:
http://www.reuters.com/news_article.jhtml?type=humannews&StoryID=1140794
The basic idea of what happened was a guy is refused to be served in a bar for not wearing shoes. Then this brilliant drinker comes up with an idea to tie pork chops on this other guys feet to fill the requirement of needing shoes to be served. After a while the pork chop disintergrates leaving grease everywhere. This guy slips breaks his arm and sues the inn and the drinker.

I thought this sounded so like something Homer would do. I would come up with a story line myself but everything I come up with doesn’t seem that entertaining. So I’m hoping something out there in Doperland can make a hilarious story out of this because it sounds like something that could be fun to do. This just seems to have “Simpson’s Episode” written all over it.