Mr Mist’s Blog

Lately there have been a few thunder storms here.  I mean, we don’t get thunder storms like they do in the tropics, but we sometimes get the odd bit.  Last week for example it dropped a ton of rain in hardly any time at all, with the traditional sound and vision alongside.  Today there was more thunder (though no rain, oddly).  

I was still shocked though to see this story.  16 Cows died at once in a lightning strike, carried across their field by the puddle they were stood in.  Poor cows.  Not told of the dangers of sheltering under a tree in a storm, it would seem.

Not that it’s any safer in the traditional human domicide, it would seem.

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A Venezuelan zookeeper was killed after letting a 10 foot python he was supervising at the zoo out of its cage.

Meanwhile, police in Canada have arrested a man in Toronto who had stolen almost 3000 bikes.

And, oh, yes, cows point north.

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Cow’s can hold a grudge for years [www.theregister.co.uk], so says research from folk at Bristol University. Apparently cows are capable of strong emotions and can worry about the future. Presumably such issues as where the wind is going to be coming from and how much grass there will be to consume play heavily on their minds.

See, cows are great!

In other news, forty kids have been suspended from a Tyneside school for throwing snowballs [news.bbc.co.uk]. It’s slightly more involved with that as it seems like they were throwing the snowballs at cars whilst battling each other from a playground across both sides of a road. Quite how a playground spans a road I’m not sure. Still. How odd.

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