Let’s agree on one thing. Cockroaches are bad, except when they can save your life. I’ll explain. Search and rescue dogs, while wonderful, have their limitations – namely, the inability to fit into tiny spaces. Oh, you can shove a Chihuahua into a tiny hole but the yelping will drive you crazy. If you get […]
Scorpions on a plane: worse than cramped seating?
People for the Ethical Treatment of Arachnids (PETA) filed a lawsuit against a woman stung by a scorpion on an Alaska Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Portland, Oregon. In their brief, lawyers for the scorpion said “She (our client) was merely trying to get some ‘elbow room’ in an already cramped seat. This woman […]
Thanksgiving turkeys smaller this year. Why?
Butterball, the US’s top maker of Thanksgiving turkeys, is having problems delivering large birds to stores around the country. It says “There may be limited availability on some larger sizes of fresh turkeys” “We experienced a decline in weight of the turkeys in some of our facilities and didn’t know why” said a spokesperson for […]