Diversions

Maybe it has something to do with the relentless heat we've been experiencing, or the even more relentless media flaptrap in regards to said heat, or the heat of warfare in the middle east, but I found this picture of snake surgery just hilarious. The python apparently ingested an entire electric blanket and the control and electric cord. Maybe he just couldn't stop eating...I don't know. The python is expected to make a full recovery.

I've also been doing some research on cow tipping which I have always thought was a gag that country kids played on naive city kids. The idea is to take some gullible kid out into a cattle field at night on the pretense that you can easily tip over a sleeping bovine. Just sneak up on poor unsuspecting Bossie, give her a push and over she'll go. Nevermind that a standing cow is not a sleeping cow. There are endless possible outcomes to such a venture. A snipe hunt is another variant. This ruse takes an unsuspecting soul out into the woods at night armed with a flashlight and gunnysack. The victem of the gag is told to call out "Here snipe. Here snipe". The snipe is purportedly lured by the call and blinded by the flashlight. At which point the dazed snipe will naturally wander into the gunnysack. Meanwhile the poor victem gets left alone in the woods. Anyway, there are some folks who are trying to prove that cow tipping is scientifically possible. Such people have way too much time on their hands. However, one can now enjoy virtual cow tipping. No irate farmers, no cow patties, and no barbed wire.