Earlier today I happened to see a story that reported that the owner of the company that makes Segways has died, apparently in a freak cliff/Segway accident. Though the details surrounding the death have not all been released, it seems that his body was found below a cliff next to a Segway. I should note that that the individual who died, Jimi Heselden, is not the inventor of the product, Dean Kamen. (A few years ago, when I was living in New York, I happened to be listening to Matt Drudge's weekly radio show when he broke the story of the Segway. While then hailed as an invention that was likely to revolutionize modern transportation, these scooters seem to have still had only limited market penetration.)
After seeing this strange (and tragic) story also also saw a few more that struck me as odd, though with a similar je ne sais quoi.
Firstly, there was CBC's follow-up to their story "Tug-of-war severs man's fingers," "Man's fingers reattached after tug-of-war injury." Amazingly, they seem to have been able to reattach the victim's four fingers, though the the reattachment procedure apparently required a 25 hour surgery. The strangest part of the whole story is that no one seems to know how the fingers came to be severed in the first place. They also didn't explain the mechanics behind a 25 hour surgery. Was there more than one surgical team? Did they do it in shifts? Simply put, the public needs more details.
Of course, I wouldn't want to forget "5,000 chickens dead in road accident." I imagine that if I was slightly more talented in the the writing of humorous comments I could come up with a good way of tying the title of this story to the classic joke structure "Why did the chicken cross the road?" Given my ineptness when it comes to writing such things I will just leave it to each reader to make the connections themselves (I don't think it should be too hard).
What I find funny about all three of these stories is that I didn't have to go looking for me, though various mechanisms they all came to me.
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Half-way between Vassar and Richville, I passed a bin that had 40 lbs. of unclassified potatoes for $2.50. What a deal. Of course, the most interesting part is that to purchase the potatoes, one just puts the payment in a little cash box left there by the farmer. That's the way we operate here in what the coastal socialists would denegrate by referring to as "fly over country".
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