Odd Sport Cancelled:
The 30-year-old traditional festival of eel-“bowling” in the fishing village of Lyme Regis, England, was canceled in July after complaints from an animal rights activist that it was disrespectful to eels.In the ritual, teams of anglers stand on platforms and swing a giant (but dead) conger eel, attached to the ceiling, to see who will be the last person standing.
Said a spokesman for the charitable event, which raises money for lifeboat crews, “But it’s a dead conger, for Pete’s sake. I shouldn’t think the conger could care one way or another.”
How on earth do the English think up these crazy “Sports”?
Creating a new crime to do the time:
Leon Howard Matter was arrested in Sandusky, Ohio, in August for sending a letter containing “anthrax” (though it turned out to be harmless powder) to the local FBI office.
He told agents the reason he did it was because he was facing earlier child pornography charges and didn’t want to go to prison for that because he’d get beaten up. Threatening the FBI, he reasoned, has a better cachet.
Pigs may not be able to fly just yet, but they have moved up another step on the evolutionary scale. At least three pigs on this planet can glow from the inside out.
Researchers in Taiwan have bred pigs with a fluorescent material created by jelly fish. The pig embryos were injected with a fluorescent green protien taken from jelly fish. The scientists hope that these glowing pigs will help their stem cell research effort. Researchers hope that the glowing pigs will help them monitor tissue changes over time as the cells would show up during stem cell treatments of diseased organs, aiding physicians in monitoring the healing process.
The pigs are fluorescent green inside and out. Their heart and internal organs glow. When observing one of these pigs they glow with a light green tint, particularly their eyes, snout and hooves.
If the glowing pigs don’t work out for research I can think of another use for them. Horror Movies! Can you imagine a scary scene with a flash of glowing eyes and snout? These pigs could be the first fluorescent movie stars.
For more information on Glowing Pigs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/4605202.stm
http://www.animationnation.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=8;t=001559;p=
http://www.livescience.com/animalworld/ap_060115_glowing_pigs.html
