Rambling and perambulating.

Cougar runs through yard on Mothers Day.

shmerica — Thu, 15 May 2008 17:13:07 +0000

Not that kind of cougar. The animal kind.

According to this article in todays paper, in a small community about 2 hours out of Winipeg, a cougar resting in the bush was startled by some gopher hunters (?) and ran off. The hunters tore off in their car to worn the people who’s property it was heading for. It was Mothers Day and kids were expected to visit. Turns out the cougar was so freaked out it just kept running. The property owner was able to take an awesome picture of it as it bolted by, only about 10 meters away from her.

People were weird in 1954 too.

shmerica — Thu, 01 May 2008 03:19:55 +0000

I found this article while researching on the Newspaper Archives. It is from the Winnipeg Free Press, Friday October 15, 1954, page 21.

If you can’t read it, here is what it says:

He’s His Own Papa
And His Mama’s
Now His Sister

Bonn (AP) – An amazing tangle of family relations in which a child theoretically became its own father was officially reported here Thursday.
A court had to unravel this situation.
A couple with one child obtained a divorce and the man remarried his own mother-in-law. As the husband of the grandmother of his child he became the grandfather of his own child, while the grandmother was also the child’s stepmother.

The child’s mother, being the daughter of the new wife, became sister of her own child.

What gets me is not that this happened; in my head the dude was probably older than his wife to begin with and maybe even closer in age to the mother-in-law. What I love is that whoever wrote the headline extrapolated from the content of the article to reach the conclusion that, due to all this mess, the child mentioned, being the son of the man married to his grandmother, becomes his own father. That is one committed headline writer.

Hey… I think I know that guy…

shmerica — Sun, 27 Apr 2008 21:46:31 +0000

According to the Canadian Press, on April 15th police in Saint John were treated to “a bit of impromptu exotic entertainment”. When the police arrived at a two-storey house, a drunk guy on the roof stripped himself naked, and, wearing only sandals, danced the Bunny Hop across the roof “while slapping his buttocks”.

He had been drinking out of a BUCKET OF TEQUILA.

Yeah. I guess it takes one degree of drunkeness to do the Bunny Hop (as at a wedding), two degrees to strip for the police, three to do the Bunny Hop on a ROOF, and four to do it NAKED ON A ROOF.

But I have no idea how many degrees of drunkeness are required to do the Bunny Hop naked on a roof in front of police officers while slapping your buttocks at the same time. That is just not a level of drunkeness that I have experience with.

Man with knife outside our house.

shmerica — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:46:29 +0000

Yeah, so last night we noticed a dude outside leaning against our front porch. He was drunk (or something) and had a knife so we retreated and locked the door. He came into the porch and knocked on the door. Then he banged on the door. Than he smashed the glass of the screen door. So we called 911 and ran out the back door.

The thing that’s bugging me most, other than the fact that there was a huge messed up guy with a knife at my door, was that I don’t think we had to leave the house. I don’t think he was trying to get in, and would have just gone away (the police said they found him lying on the garage floor, and that he whipped the knife at them across the floor — he was so wasted). But at the moment I heard the glass break I felt sure he was trying to, and I wanted to be as far away as possible from him.

I don’t know why that part is bugging me so much.

I also remember thinking, “Who would try to break in when (boyfriend’s name) is here?”. (Boyfriend’s name) is a big guy. But this guy was around the same size.

So yeah. Weird. Weird. I don’t know what to think.

It was weird.

Goose invades bear’s personal space

shmerica — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 15:39:56 +0000

I’m not going to try to one-up the caption that appeared in the Winnipeg Free Press on April 17th 2008:

“An Assiniboine Park Zoo black bear, just awakened from hibernation, studies a Canada goose that dropped into its enclosure Wednesday. The bird flew a little low and hit the concrete wall, falling into the bear pit. The goose started a conversation with its huge host before its mate flew in and they both winged away. The bear went back to bed.”

Chuck Norris couldn’t have triggered a more macho headline.

shmerica — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:34:15 +0000

“I Kicked Burning Terrorist so Hard in Balls that I Tore a Tendon in My Foot”

Except he could, cause he’s Chuck Norris, and wouldn’t have torn a tendon even if he kicked hard enough to tear a tendon.

I hope I am this cool when I am 80.

shmerica — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:24:36 +0000

Read the coolest story about an 80 year old woman who punched a police officer who pulled her over for changing lanes into another car.

Even after he got the cuffs on, she wiggled out of them, and threw them out the police car window.

(Story no longer where I found it.)

Most surreal animal pictures ever.

shmerica — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 19:20:16 +0000

Using a process that a still don’t fully understand, a team of researchers have been managing to produce photographs of animals as they develop in the womb!

The pictures are so unreal that they haunted my dreams the night after I viewed them. Indescribable.

Train Hillary, off her rails.

shmerica — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 21:59:33 +0000

I don’t usually comment on politics, as I don’t count myself among the knowledgable. But I do enjoy succinct, honest commentary. Read about how “Train Hillary Has Jumped The Tracks”.

Courtesy of the ever amusing Dead Elephant.org

Were they warned against exploding rings?

shmerica — Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:07:34 +0000

Airport security spoils wedding proposal plans

Sharp-eyed screener finds tucked-away ring; man pops question early
Associated Press – updated 10:42 a.m. CT, Fri., March. 7, 2008

PRINCE GEORGE, – A Canadian man thought he had come up with the perfect romantic setting to propose to his high school sweetheart until airport security got involved.

Aaron Tkachuk, 24, had intended to propose to girlfriend Jennifer Rubadeau during a Caribbean cruise this week, but instead had to pop the question at a security screening station at the Prince George, British Columbia, airport.

An airport screener checking Tkachuk’s carry-on luggage spotted a small box in the toe of a sock — insisted on having a closer look and pulled out a white gold, diamond and ruby ring.

Tkachuk decided to propose on the spot, and his dazed 24-year-old girlfriend said yes, as fellow travelers and security staff looked on and applauded.