And now for something weird...

spinnaker

Joined Oct 29, 2009
7,830
One day I got back to the office after lunch. I made my way to the third floor where I could hear all kind of screaming, laughing and running around. It was a crazy place to work but even this level of weirdness was unusual.

I had no idea what was going on. I made my way to the 3rd floor. More screaming and more running around. Next thing I know, a squirrel goes running across the floor. A co-worker and I gave chase. We chased the squirrel into our first aide room and closed the door behind us. My c0-worker grabbed a box and a sheet. I a pair of splints. The plan was to herd the squirrel into the box and cover with the sheet.

Easier said than done. That squirrel was jumping all over the place. We were trying to avoid getting attacked. Running into boxes and walls. And there was bit of yelling and screaming. It must have been something to hear from the outside of the room. A couple of times he jumped on to a painted wall and clung to a bare painted wall. Pretty amazing, Then he jumped on my chest! I am staring down at him. He up at me with those two giant teeth! I thought he was going dor the throat.

We finally got the squirrel into the box and out of the building. We were the heros of the compmnay that day. ;)
 

nsaspook

Joined Aug 27, 2009
16,330
http://www.kptv.com/story/37165139/...orse-after-dui-while-riding-it?autostart=true

This poor woman is being punished unfairly. Giving her the DUI while on a horse is abusing the law, she was a drunk riding a horse (not driving a vehicle) down a road.

https://crimcourts.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/can-you-get-a-dui-on-a-horse-in-florida/
In Florida, you can be arrested for operating any “vehicle” if your normal faculties are impaired by alcohol or a controlled substance. It does not have to be a motor vehicle: I personally prosecuted a guy who was arrested for DUI on a tricycle back when I worked at the state. And this guy was just recently arrested for DUI on a lawnmower. A vehicle is defined as a “Device” that can be used or be drawn to transport persons (or property) on a highway. Rail cars are specifically excluded. This definition appears to me to exclude horses: it would be a stretch to call a horse a “device”. I did some cursory research and could not find any published cases where an individual had been charged with DUI on a horse. Attorney Gary Potts has addressed this on his blog, and come to a similar conclusion, though as he points out, a horse-drawn cart would probably qualify.
 

cmartinez

Joined Jan 17, 2007
8,768
An incredible, amazing story:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/hist...uman-contact-unaware-of-world-war-ii-7354256/

... he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when “the stars began to go quickly across the sky,” and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: “People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars.”

“What amazed him most of all,” Peskov recorded, “was a transparent cellophane package. ‘Lord, what have they thought up—it is glass, but it crumples!’”
 
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