Strange, but true

Adventures in the Bush (or World’s dumbest criminals?)

West Australia - In June, after a monitored, endangered marsupial was killed in West Australia, scientists set out to recover the collar that contained a radio transmitter, only to find that a six-foot long python had swallowed the marsupial and collar.  The scientists captured the snake, intending on waiting for the collar to pass through, but poachers broke into the Department of Environment and Conservation’s shelter and stole the python, intending on selling it.  According to a June report in The West Australian, the scientists eventually picked up the transmitter’s signal again, arrested one poacher and freed the snake from its impending life of captivity.

Nice parenting

Oregon, Wisconsin - David J. Peschl, 36, was arrested in February after his nine-year-old son wrote a school essay about the “painful afternoon my Dad shot me with a BB gun” all because his son was blocking the TV set.  The boy’s elementary school teacher turned the essay over to the authorities and Peschl was arrested and was charged with one felony count of child abuse.

Wild Boars hate Prius’ too

New London, New Hampshire - A retired wild-life biologist was traveling down Interstate 89 when just around 6:30pm something slammed into her driver’s side door.  The impact was so powerful that it pushed the car into the breakdown lane (then again, she was driving a Prius.) Shortly after calling 911, the responding Trooper heard that the boar had struck another car and was laying dead on the side of the road.  Talk about dying for a good cause.  Tonight, I drink in honor of the Boar.

Wisconsin for the Win

Although 2008 had only one more day than 2007, due to Leap Year, cheese production rose 1.4%. Cheddar was better, as the most popular cheese and Mozzarella was stella’, coming in at a close second.

I’m just so glad that someone out there is tracking the success of cheese. Planet Earth may be in a recession, but cheese will always prevail, through thick and thin, through holey Swiss and through smoked Gouda. I’d also like to thank all the cows out there, for giving us something to look forward to at every networking event or family gathering. Your by-product has gotten me through many an open bar function.

So, thanks. Your fine work has not gone unnoticed.