This has been kicking around the internet for a long time, as written articles, chatrooms, on Facebook and forwarded email. It has even been the subject of a Snopes investigation because most of the data is made up.
This article was written by Frosty Wooldridge and published in News with Views in Oct 2007 as a response to an article written by Dreigo and published in Rocky Mt News a few days earlier.
Here is the original article