Here We Go Again 

    Headline by Ben Hooper reads: 

    Man held 'hostage' by car-blocking turkeys in Georgia 

    I don’t understand this---you have two turkeys, each weighing maybe forty pounds and then you have a man, in an automobile, with a combined weight of probably 2000 pounds. And this man has to call for help because the turkeys will not let him pass? 
    Now, what’s wrong with this picture? I don’t care how militant or pumped up these turkeys are, they will move when something weighing 2000 pounds and is forty times their size pushes up against their little pea-sized brains. 

 Leave the Sideburns A Little Longer This Time

   Ben Hooper is again reporting, and this time about the strange goings on in a Virginia neighborhood. Somebody is shaving cats. That’s right, removing the fur from cats. These cats are not completely shaved, but just portions of them. 
   These cats are ones that are out wandering around the neighborhood. The police captain says it appears that the shaver is using some kind of razor. That would certainly be easier than using, say, a butter knife. 
    From the report, it’s hard to tell whether the cats or the owners are the most upset. Example: "It hurts, because she can't tell me. I know it probably hurt her, probably not physically, but mentally that has to be really hard on her. She doesn't want to be picked up anymore. She used to be really nice and you could pick her up and hold her and everything, and now she just doesn't want to be picked up anymore." 
    So far, no one has any idea what the motive might be for someone to do this. Now, cats prowling around a neighborhood can be somewhat of a nuisance, but shaving the poor darlings? Maybe painting them blue I could understand, but shaving seems a little over the top.