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This weeks theme is Original
This is a photo that my wife took a year or so ago. We were driving in downtown Toronto along Lakeshore BLVD and I believe this mural is painted on the side of the Redpath sugar refinery building.
It’s a gigantic mural. The building is at least 100 feet tall and 50 feet wide if not even bigger and the mural covers the extent of one whole side of the building. It’s beautiful!
If that’s not original I don’t know what is!
Wordless Wednesday That has to be one of the biggest burgers that I’ve ever seen! We have a place here in Toronto called Dangerous Dan’s and they make a huge burger too. I think it’s called the colossal burger or the colon buster, but I think it’s a bit smaller than the thing in this guys hands. Look at it! It’s bigger than the guys head, and I don’t think that’s a small guy. The paper towels and the pitchers of water I can understand but I’m still trying to figure out the helmet. Could he be wearing it just in case he gets so full he passes out? Concussion protection? Want to Join Wordless Wednesday’s? Sign up here:
Can you imagine being trapped in these jaws?
A 61 year old Australian woman Alicia Sorohan was recently awarded Australia’s star of bravery which recognizes citizens for outstanding acts of bravery.
In October, 2004 she was camping with friends on the Northern Cape York Peninsula when she was awakened early one morning byt the sound of screaming. The family friend, Andrew Kerr, was being dragged out of his tent by a 300kg 4 metre long salt water crocodile.
Lucky for Kerr, Sorohan had eaten her wheaties that morning and she promptly “did what anyone would do” (Would You?) and jumped onto it’s back and started wrestling with it to free her friend from the jaws of the large reptile.
Disrupted from it’s attempt at a free meal the croc turned on her, breaking her nose and almost ripping her arm off before the gigantic crocodilian was shot by her son Jason. Sorohan sustained permanent damage to her arm, stating she doesn’t have full movement. Repairs included two permanent plates and 12 screws in her arm.
She says “It was pretty scary but it’s one of those things - if you see someone in trouble you’ve got to help them. He was a big one but I’d do the same again.” Sorohan and her family have since returned to the campsite, reasoning that there is risk anywhere, and that she could just as easily be run over by a bus while crossing the road.
That’s one brave lady!
BTW I didn’t add this story to enforce the fear of reptiles in people. I’m actually a reptile owner and one of my good internet friends Dr. Adam Britton does quite a bit of research on Crocodile and alligator poplulations worldwide.
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