When I started this blog, I intended to make the News Roundup a regular Friday feature. So far the only thing regular about my blog is its irregularity. Nevertheless, here are a few strange stories and my thoughts on them.
From Alabama:
A woman driving a Mercedes saw a goat and a dog playing on an Alabama highway. When she stopped, afraid they would get hit, the goat jumped on the car and wouldn't come down. She called the Sheriff's Department. A deputy got the goat down and put it in his patrol car, but then the dog jumped into his back seat, too.
This may be the most amazing story I have ever read. I am just in complete shock. It doesn't even seem possible.
From Alabama:
A woman driving a Mercedes saw a goat and a dog playing on an Alabama highway. When she stopped, afraid they would get hit, the goat jumped on the car and wouldn't come down. She called the Sheriff's Department. A deputy got the goat down and put it in his patrol car, but then the dog jumped into his back seat, too.
This may be the most amazing story I have ever read. I am just in complete shock. It doesn't even seem possible.
There's a Mercedes in Alabama?
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From the Friendly Skies:
Some wayward ticks delayed a United Airlines flight from Denver to Des Moines. Flight 1178 was delayed for nearly six hours after a passenger informed a flight attendant that she found a tick in economy class during a flight from Washington, D.C., to Denver.
1) The airlines thought they'd found one more way to suck blood out of passengers, but they got caught.
2) "I'm sorry you lost your pet ticks, Timmy. If we don't find them, we can get you some more when we get home. Do you have any idea where you might have left them?"
3) If it had been Southwest, the ticks would have claimed discrimination and sued the airline.
4) "No, Ahmed, it does not appear that we will be able to insert explosives into ticks and blow up airplanes in flight. Stupid Americans won't fly with ticks on the plane."
5) United Airlines announced a 15% increase in ticket prices to cover the installation of giant flea collars on all their airplanes.
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From Left Field:
A man says he was so consumed by the spirit of God that he fell and hit his head while worshipping. Now he wants his church to pay $2.5 million for medical bills, lost income, and pain and suffering. He says he was asking God to have "a real experience" while praying. He also says he has fallen from the force of the spirit before but has always been caught by someone.
OK, I was going to make some comments about a new twist on the prosperity gospel, or maybe that he should have prayed for some other kind of experience, or perhaps pointing out that it seems unlikely that God would bowl him over at the wrong place and time. But I am just so flabbergasted, I really have nothing to say. Fortunately the story is so ludicrous that I don't need to say anything.
OK, I was going to make some comments about a new twist on the prosperity gospel, or maybe that he should have prayed for some other kind of experience, or perhaps pointing out that it seems unlikely that God would bowl him over at the wrong place and time. But I am just so flabbergasted, I really have nothing to say. Fortunately the story is so ludicrous that I don't need to say anything.
2 comments:
Not only are there Mercedes in Alabama, but I think there is a Mercedes factory near Birmingham.
Wow - who'dathunkit?
Thanks for keeping me in line. Just hope you never show up in a psycho-village story...
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