As if you needed another reason to avoid Australia...
Thursday, July 08, 2004
This from the news today:
Another woman told how a kangaroo drowned one of the four dogs she was walking with a friend, attacking it in a pond and holding it under the water with its hind legs while it hit out at one of the other dogs with its front legs.
"My friend started shouting: 'There's a kangaroo in the pond. It's got Summer'. It was surreal, like your worst nightmare," Christine Canham told the Canberra Times newspaper.
"She was screaming and screaming. The kangaroo just stared back at us. I will never forget that."
Evans said it was not unusual for kangaroos to flee into water if they felt under threat and, as a last defence, they would try to drown their predator with their powerful hind legs.
Okay, so the animals are malicious in their killing of a potential threat...Isn't that interesting? Threaten a kangaroo and it'll drown you in the nearest pond. That's fucked up. Really fucked up.
In other news, I'm watching a commercial for MCI (a US telephone company) where lots of happy people are shown using its services to the singing of "It's a Wonderful World". Yes, I'm sure it is a wonderful world for the company. Well, more wonderful than when it was Worldcom was scamming its customers and fucking over its shareholders. Long live American-style capitalism!
In related news, Kenneth Lay, the ex-CEO amd chairman of Enron was indicted today, however the indictment was sealed, so the public does not yet know the charges. He's said that he'll turn himself in Thursday morning. Can you imagine his last truly free night? What would you do the night before you surrendered yourself for what will unlikely be quite a long prison term (after the trial and appeals of course)? Being that the trial is held in Texas, there's little doubt that his term will be quite a long one indeed. I read a quote from him saying that a few years ago his fortune was an estimated $400 million. Now it's less than $2 million, thanks to the utter collapse of Enron stock, which made up most of his fortune. The stupid bastard couldn't even do some insider trading and get rid of his stock before it plummetted.
I don't know why, but for some reason the formatting for this post is different from my others... stupid piece of shit.
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