Got Unwanted Bugs – You Might Want To Call This Guy

 

And Other Odd And Ends

 

From My Journal

 

Pest Control At It’s Finest

July 2008             

A man in New Jersey has discovered a new way to eliminate unwanted bugs from his apartment. He was spraying the apartment with some kind of insecticide when the insecticide ignited and exploded. It blew out the front of his apartment and caught the rest of it on fire. The good news--his apartment is now free of bugs, much of the owner’s personnel property, including his furniture along with other odds and ends.

 

Welcome Too Maine

The headline says, “Man finds second long Python in Maine in a week.” From that I would understand that a number of short ones have also been found. Now, if a person went looking for pythons, Maine would not immediately leap to mind as a logical destination. But, if the media alludes to an outbreak of pythons in Maine, who are we to doubt.  

 

 

Never To Late

     Well it looks like Lonesome George may be a daddy. This news is not necessarily startling because George is somewhere between 60 and 90 years old. The news is startling because in the 36 years that George has been incarcerated he has shown little interest in reproducing, even though he has been given many opportunities. When we saw him, he looked like just any of the other Galapagos Tortoises. George is the last of the Pinta Island Tortoises. Now they think that old George may have fathered some descendents. We’ll know for sure in about four months.

 

Run Rats Run

November 2008

It’s nice when people can come up with a win-win solution that will solve several problems. A state in eastern India has several problems:  1. The people are very poor. 2. The price of groceries has gotten very high. 3. The state is overrun with rats. 4. Rats eat 50% of the grain that the people need. 5. The shortage of grain is one of the reasons groceries are so expensive. So the government is asking the people in this state to eat the rats, thereby solving a number of problems.

 

What’s Happened to the North Carolina Educational System

     In North Carolina a guy robbed a gas station then ran across the street to a grocery store parking lot to steal a getaway car. Thinking ahead was not a subject he excelled at in high school. He tried to carjack a car from a lady who was loading her groceries into the back seat. Some neighboring car owners came to her rescue and started beating up on the guy. One concerned citizen was pummeling him with her frozen turkey. And if you’ve been hit by a turkey, frozen or not, you know it can smart. Why, I remember one time - -  back to our story. The perpetrator finally wrested the key from the car owner, climbed in and left the scene. But not before hitting several parked cars. The cops caught up with the guy in short order and took him to the hospital, where he was treated for frozen turkey wounds.