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August 7, 2012

– – Talk about having a terrible, no good, really bad day!   Wallace Weatherholt, a 63-year-old airboat captain in the Florida Everglades, was giving a tour of the area on June 12th to an Indiana family and hanging fish over the side of his boat when a nine-foot alligator sank its teeth into his wrist, severing his hand.

The mutilated captain drove the boat back to its dock with one hand, and was promptly taken to the hospital.  His severed hand was found in the alligator’s stomach, but could not be reattached.  Six weeks later, the airboat captain was charged with feeding an alligator, a second-degree misdemeanor.  Arrested, Weatherholt faces a fine of up to $500 and a possible jail sentence.  He posted $1,000 bail since his arrest, and will appear in court later in August. 

The alligator was tracked down by officers of the Florida Wildlife Commission, and put to death shortly after the attack.  Laws against feeding alligators are intended to protect both animals and humans, as alligators when fed lose their fear of humans…

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The Agony of Da Feet…

November 13, 2011

 – – This one’s a real stumper:  British Columbia has been plagued by, err, dismembered human feet washing ashore, most of them still clad in footwear including boots and running shoes!–No, they were not Bigfeet!  At least nine feet have been discovered in British Columbia since 2007,  all except the most recent found in saltwater.  The hokey-pokey seems to have gone terribly wrong…

Medical examiners believe that the feet separated from dead bodies due to natural causes, with explanations ranging from displaced “body farm” subjects to tsunami victims to pranks…but something strange sounds afoot, and someone should give those investigators a hand…ahahahahaha!

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Biggest Honker!

September 20, 2010

– – The Guinness Book of World Records has picked (no pun intended) the world’s largest human nose.  The schnoz belongs to a 61-year-old Turkish gentleman, and measures an impressive 3.46 inches from bridge to tip.- -Any bigger than this, and the nose would qualify for its own zip code!

There’s gotta be a few good jokes hanging there, but we’ll spare you…


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The Tiger Trade…

February 13, 2010

– – As we are about to enter the Year of the Tiger, it’s important to remember that the commercial tiger trade is threatening the big cats with extinction, with only some 3,200 tigers remaining in the wild, nearly half of them in  India.

The tiger population is down from 100,000 worldwide a century ago due to growth in the human population and a demand in China, Vietnam, and Laos for tiger parts to be used in folk medicine.

Environmental activists are also worried about private ownership of tigers in the United States, where more than 5,000 tigers are believed to be in private hands as backyard pets or roadside zoo attractions.  Now tigers are often too dangerous to handle after six months of age, after which point they risk exploitation as they outgrow their usefulness.  While 26 states ban private ownership of tigers, nine states, including North and South Carolina, Ohio, and Wisconsin  have no regulations at all!

The highest number of captive tigers are found in Texas, which has regulations on tiger ownership but rarely enforces them.  China has nearly 6,000 tigers in captivity, and is trying to stamp out the tiger trade.  A growing private industry of  underground “tiger farms” in Asia, however, is putting new pressure on the endangered species as marketing tigers tends to stimulate and sustain demand for them…

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The Nose Knows!

July 30, 2009

michael-jacksons-nose-missing-when-he-died— There is a matter of considerable importance of which you must be made aware:  Michael Jackson’s nose is MISSING!!!

Or so reports The Rolling Stone. You’re probably aware that decades of plastic surgery had destroyed Michael Jackson’s nose; he had to wear a prosthesis instead, with claims of a false nose supported by a former housekeeper to Jackson.  A witness who supposedly saw Michael’s body as it lay on the autopsy table in the morgue reportedly noted that said prosthetic nose was missing from the singer’s surgically mangled face, leaving behind a small, dark hole surrounded by bits of cartilage…Ewww!– As if removal of part of his brain hadn’t been enough…

The Michael Jackson saga keeps on getting more bizarre just as his doctor is the target of a manslaughter probe into the singer’s death.  The question remains of the nose’s whereabouts. — Someone out there knows of the nose! I would suggest that we round up the usual suspects. — Let’s visit underworld bars and begin hurting people!  One of them must know something…

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