Friday, November 02, 2007

Today in Extraordinarily Odd


A weird, pretty unattractive hairless dog beast that many in Texas assumed hysterically was a mythical beast has, after tests done at the University of Texas, turned out to be a coyote. These weird assed beasts show up every now and then in various parts of the world, often in the US and they always turn out to be odd variations on dogs. There was the blue furred freak-animal in Maine last year, then the pack of oddly large hounds on the moors in the UK, the male rapist monster in Africa and of course, there was that drunk moose in Sweden. Although, I think the Swedes were pretty comfortable with the fact that it was just a drunk moose. The best part about these happenings is what it brings out in people. Texans were already calling it Chupacabra – the mythical goat monster that sucks. I’ll wager that some dumb ass Texan thought it was Satan and blamed gay black people for it. He probably got Government funding. [source]


A woman in London went and had her son cremated. There’s no real story there is there. I mean, that probably happens every day. Meanwhile, here’s the interesting part: just after she cremated him, he walked in alive. She cremated the wrong body because she identified the wrong body. The Police Commissioner dealing with the case was quoted as saying: “This set of circumstances is clearly distressing and urgent inquiries are ongoing to establish how this happened.” Actually, it seems like it’s unbelievably amazing for the woman who thought she’d cremated her son. I mean, in fact, it probably couldn’t GET any better for her. I’d even say she would probably have considered it the best day of her life. For the family of the cremated person – not so much. Although, he was dead before they cremated him so there is that comfort. Cremation didn’t cause the death. We’re clear on that much. [source]


Some vacationing Australians at the Nhulunbuy Yacht Club were out in a boat and they found a crocodile that got quite aggressive as they were hauling in their boat ramp – no doubt after listening to them talk to each other about the footy, beer and whatever the hell else outback Australian vacationers talk about. They called the police who came along to see what the fuss was about and, with the help of the Parks and Wildlife Service, they took the crocodile away and put it in a jail cell. Then, no doubt, they all had a good laugh about it down at the pub and then beat each other up and laughed about it. Good old rural Australians; always finding new things to do. [source]

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