I don't know where to put the ironic quotes

Federal law enforcement were also reported to be looking into whether Mr. Grant’s civil rights were violated in his killing.

Professor Abbott Fearmonger, PhD

Dr. Abbott said. “Then you would hear a big bang, maybe a series of bangs, something that sounded like gunfire or cannons. It would be a really, really loud noise. And then you would be knocked to the ground by the air blast. And then you would be inundated by the tsunami.”

World to end in plague of colorful blobs, not fire

Humans have long lived in dread of such nightmare scenarios in which swarms of creatures attack.

It will harden and they will die

To the person who wanted to get rid of the carpenter bees: Go into the hole they've built and put plastic wood inside. Push it in there and mash it down and they should die within three or four minutes when the plastic wood hardens.

Apparently, it apparently was

Officials said the dolphin, called Sharky, hit the other dolphin during a Sunday show at SeaWorld's Discovery Cove. The accident was apparently a freak accident.

In these times of stress

In times of stress, some members of a colony respond by building thousands of toxin molecules and then burst open, killing off the unrelated E. coli around them. Their fellow clones survive, though, and thrive without the competition.

-NYTimes

The end, theoretically speaking

Doomsday from particle physics is part of the culture.

-NYTimes

State of ethology in the state of Texas

A day after the 2006 shooting of a cat that lived under the San Luis Pass toll bridge in Galveston, Tex., another cat could be seen. The prosecution and defense wrangled repeatedly about whether witnesses could accurately assess the cat’s state of mind. “He’s not qualified to know what the cat was feeling,” said Mr. Nelson, when a police officer, John P. Bertolino Sr., testified that the cat was in terrible pain when he arrived at the crime scene. The cat died en route to a Humane Society facility.

NYTimes

And I can still hear the pips...the pips

A dried-up orange from the lunchbox of a miner fatally injured on the day he was due to eat it has gone on display in a Staffordshire museum. The fruit belonged to Joseph Roberts who was injured in an explosion at a Stoke-on-Trent colliery in 1891. It had been kept by his family but has been donated to the Potteries Museum. Spokeswoman Deb Klemperer said it may just be a piece of dried fruit but the story behind it made it an amazing piece for the museum. The pips can be heard rattling when the orange is shaken.

Death courtesy Dale Rippy

Dale Rippy, a resident of Wesley Chapel, Florida, was pulling trashcans back to his house May 30 when he saw what he thought was a large cat. After realizing the animal was actually a bobcat, he set the trashcans down and prepared for an attack.

-FoxNews

Fox rampage ends as teens kick animal to death

A fox attacked three people in Suffolk Thursday morning.

The first attack occurred just after 6:00 a.m. at Sonic in the 1600 blk. of North Main Street. The male fox chased a 17-year-old employee of that business.

Just after 9 a.m., the fox was spotted at Barton Ford and then back at Sonic’s drive thru. The fox attacked an employee of Barton Ford, who had been operating a fork lift at that location. The person was scratched on the leg.

Animal Control was unable to locate the fox and traps were set.

Then the fox returned to Barton Ford and attacked a second employee but didn't injure the person's leg.

Then the fox was spotted back at Sonic, where it tried to attack the 17-year-old employee again. That teen kicked it against the building and dispatched the fox.

Drowned in water and decomposing fish

They fainted at the smell of the decomposing fish kept in the bottom of the trawler along the Andaman coast of southern Thailand on Monday, and the five men drowned in shallow water, police said.

March 7, 2007

Whale explosion

Because of the natural decomposing process, a lot of gases accumulated, and when the pressure buildup was too great, the whale's belly just exploded and spilled blood and the innards on the street," Wang said.

Despite the explosion, enough of the whale remained intact that it will still be transported to the 'Shi-Tsao Natural Preserve' for a scientific examination, Wang added.

Taiwan News.com
28 January 2004