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b'All through the summer of 1973, there was one song on the radio everywhere that you just couldn\\u2019t get away from: Jim Croce\\u2019s smash hit, \\u201cBad, Bad Leroy Brown.\\u201d\\n\\nThe little Cascade-foothills town of Boring once had its own Bad, Bad Leroy Brown \\u2014 although when the song came out, very few people then alive were old enough to remember him. His name was Free Coldwell \\u2014 or at least, that was what he called himself. Like Leroy Brown, he a proud, strutting tough guy who got a humiliating comeuppance. But his downfall didn\\u2019t come from making a pass at \\u201cthe wife of a jealous man\\u201d in a Boring nightclub or bar. No; Free Coldwell was taken down by the citizens of Boring, who basically played an elaborate practical joke on him \\u2014 with the help of a professional prizefighter. (Boring, Clackamas County; 1900s) (For text and pictures, see https://offbeatoregon.com/21-05.bad-bad-free-coldwell-baddest-boxer-in-boring.html)'