My Friends. I Think I'll Keep Them.

[captainsblog]

Because rarely does a week go by without several of their home towns being featured in News of the Weird.

(1) A 76-year-old Baptist minister was found dead in Clarksville,Tenn., in March after he had tried to pull a goat back into a fenced-in area of his property; apparently, the goat had resisted the slip knot,and somehow the animal’s jumping had wound the rope around the minister’s feet and neck, and he had begun to turn blue by the time his wife found him.

(2) Several psychotherapists told The New York Times in February that treatments are being developed for people who are excessively worried about their own carbon emissions being responsible for “global warming.” More than 120 therapists are now listed as specialists in the field on Ecopsychology.org, and schools such as Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Ore., have created courses on counseling such patients.

Other homes are not exempt, either, though they sometimes require going to the daily NOTW site on Blogger.

Home countries, for instance:

(3) The Vicente Sotto Memorial Medical Center in Cebu City, Philippines,said it most certainly did not approve of the six doctors and their helpers, who laughed continuously at a patient during surgery. And it sure as hell did not approve putting said video on YouTube. Highly unprofessional, said Medical Center officials, even if the surgery did involve removal of a perfume canister from the patient’s rectum.

Or home teams, for that matter:

(4) According to polite news reports on the death of the father who accidentally plunged two stories after a New York Mets game, in front of his two young daughters, it’s exceeding dangerous to walk down a stopped escalator because you never know if, like this guy, you’ll be mysteriously hurled over the side (or, on the other hand, alcohol might have been involved, or at least showing off).

It's another beautiful day here, but after all this news I'm feeling somewhat compelled to stay inside.

Comments

[headbanger118.livejournal.com]

I used to travel to Clarksville for franchise meetings when I worked at Sylvan. My favorite sign I passed on the way was the sign for Frozen Head State Park. WTH???

[bluesilverkdg.livejournal.com]

I notice that TN is mentioned more often than not in your news of the weird..

[captainsblog.livejournal.com]

Yours and mine both. Although the TN weird stories seem to come from the smaller places, while NY and the B-lo tend to produce most of the homegrown weird.