Saturday, January 7, 2017

It’s a Bird. It’s a Plane. No, It’s - - Oh Well, Let’s Call It a Camel 
   A report filed by Daniel Uria, for AOL news I guess, started out with this first sentence. 
   “A group of visiting llama experts helped police in Georgia (that's U.S.) capture an escaped llama that baffled residents.” 
   WOW! - That sentence has some interesting points. I’ll try to address some of them.
   Llama experts in Georgia? A group no less? Why not, they’ve got to be someplace, I guess. 
   Georgia residents baffled by llama? Turns out they thought it was a camel. Hopefully this doesn’t reflect the general acuity of Georgians. 
   The llama experts had to help the police capture the llama. Notice the singular. There was only one llama. 
   Later the Chief Deputy Sheriff explained, “Our deputies are not trained in South American camelid identification.” I have a hard time imagining “American camelid identification” being something that would naturally roll off the tongue of a Georgia deputy sheriff. But what do I know? 
   Also, we find that these llama experts were traveling right on the road where the camel/llama was located. Talk about coincidence. 
   When asked why the llama had gotten lose the deputy sheriff offered up the suggestion that maybe the llama had seen the weather report for the coming weekend and was attempting to buy bread and milk. I’ll go out on a limb here and guess that the deputy sheriff’s suggestion was tongue-in-cheek.

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