Strange Indeed

 

Those who know me and love me tell me I need a real job. They infer that I have too much time on my hands by the number of emails they receive from me. And they don’t know the half of what I send out. And anyway, I am looking for a real job. But in the meantime, I keep running across these strange stories and feel an equally strange compunction to pass them along.

Certainly one of the oddest has to be the Oklahoma politician, not likely to rise much beyond the state level, unless them make him general consul in Fallujah. State Senator Frank Shurden has been a longtime defender of cockfighting. You know, with roosters. Anyway, some civilized folks in The Sooner State -- sooner than what you may ask but that’s another story -- prohibited the sickies from putting razor-like spurs on their birds. Worried that the gamebird industry was heading for the crapper, Shurden proposed a bill that roosters be given little boxing gloves so that they can mix it up without bloodshed. I told you this guy would be great in Iraq.

Here on the left coast, maybe just a little inland, up in Oregon, a guy says a goat showed up in his detached rec room. (You may wonder why this story actually made the newswires. Well, don’t bother, these things happen.) Anyway, he found the goat schmoozing with his dog. Now the hollow-horned ruminant doesn’t want to leave. Said the new goat-owner, "I called animal control. They told me to call the sheriff. The sheriff said call animal control. Then they gave me an emergency number for loose livestock." Nobody answered. He says he doesn’t mind the critter, but says you shouldn’t turn your back on him. He also complained that the goat butted his truck. We’ll leave that story there.

Finally this item from Raleigh, North Carolina, but it could have happened anywhere, and probably has, at least a lot of other places. Paramedics responded to a car accident and found a victim who wasn’t breathing. So they brought him to the morgue. That’s how they handle such matters in most places. A problem arose however when the medical examiner was studying the body. Imagine his surprise when the man took a shallow breath. Said the M-E, "I had to look twice myself just to make sure it was there, that's how subtle it was." Subtle indeed. The paramedics were suspended pending an investigation. The victim was hospitalized in critical condition.

And that’s SetonnoteS...I’m Tony Seton.

 

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