Friday, November 30, 2007

"Fried Fridays: When In Rome, Do As..."

Gosh, so many screwy stories from our screwy world, and so little time to present them all...

Loved the Chilean prostitute who legally just sold 27 hours of sex to raise a $4,000 charity donation to help needy children...the one-liners were too numerous and too potentially job-ending for me, so I had to let that one lie...

Rather, I chose to go with a pair of unrelated stories that are related in that they were dispensed by the Rome (Italy) news bureaus.

First up...on a simple little jumper flight from Milan to Rome via Ryanair, there arose a rather tense exchange when a passenger repeatedly refused to obey the instructions from a flight attendant before take-off. The passenger was booted off the flight, long story short. 36-inches long, to be exact. The plush alligator, that is...and all because the passenger refused to store the cuddly reptilian replica as all carry-on needed to be stored: overhead or fully under the seat.

No, the person above is not the bootee, but she is holding a 36-inch alligator for scale...

Personally, I think the whole thing is a croc.

From "any croc will do" to "cockle-doodle-do"...there's something to crow about in the Italian province of Bolzano, not too far south of the border with Liechtenstein. Well, it's actually something they shouldn't crow about, I suppose. Last time I checked, roosters let loose sometime approximate to sunrise or shortly before it...they're kinda sorta wired that way.


Unfortunately, one farmer was fined almost $300 for his rooster's vocalizations that neighbors complained woke them up too early. (They obviously don't do weather for News 14...) He'll have to fight it in court with the help of the local farmer's organization on the grounds that he needs at least one rooster to breed with his chickens. Last time I checked, they're kinda sorta wired that way.

And that's the latest news of our society going to the dogs...


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