Everything Worth Reading from the News 

Maybe He Didn’t Think It All the Way Through      A man in Akron, Ohio, phoned 911, and requested a police dog. When asked why, he said it was to help track down some heroin that he thought had been stolen from him. 

     While police were interviewing this individual, he pulled “a brown, waxy substance from his pants.” 

    Police seized the substance, I’m guessing rather gingerly, and with gloved hands, and sent it off to be tested.

Headline: “Police probe drone that crashed through New York woman's 27th floor window.” 
   It seems it would be better if they were probing the person who was controlling the drone. 

 Scowling Face in Street Lamp
    In Salem, Massachusetts, the Mayor snapped a picture of a street lamp that seems to have the face of a scowling man inside it. The Mayor called it “eerie.” I’m not sure why, if you were trapped in a street lamp wouldn’t you be scowling? 

Depressed Dogs? Really? 
    From a report coming out of the UK it seems that one quarter of Britain’s dogs are stressed out. How do they know this? It seems they took a survey of 1,100 dog owners and one-quarter of these owners believe their furry friends are suffering from stress. Fifty-three percent of those surveyed thought themselves to be stressed out also. 
    This highly scientific study reminds me of a comment by Mark Twain, “There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact.” 

Just the Way They Like It? 
    The Australians are noted for their barbeques, but they recently went over the top, maybe. A farmer near Dorrigo had 68 of his cows hit by lighting, all at one time. The common opinion was that they were a little crispy around the edges, but the rest of the meat was just right. 
    Now this is a cute story, well, maybe not maybe for the cows, but to have 68 of them hit by lighting is really hard to fathom. This is one unlucky farmer.