Locksmith!

The Nobel Peace Prize has dropped in value over time as the list of past recipients has grown to include the likes of Jimmy Carter, Yassar Arafat and Kofi Annan. Who would want to be grouped with those three monsters?

But Detroit may have an even larger problem on its hands. Traditionally, one of the highest honors a city can give is the symbolic key to its gates. And last week, Detroit bestowed one such key upon Jerome Bettis, the Pittsburgh Steelers' running back, on the occasion of his homecoming and likely retirement from the sport.

It was quite the kudo, especially considering Detroit has not handed out a key in over a quarter of a century. But there was one slight hitch.

The Indianapolis Star sums up the problem:

It should also be mentioned the last person to receive that honor was -- get this -- Saddam Hussein, who got it in 1980.

"They've changed the locks on that one," Bettis joked.

Depending on when they changed those locks, we might want to dispatch some folks to check the basement of Motown records for the missing WMDs.