Leave the guns, take the duck
I heard about this story on last weekend’s episode of
href="http://www.npr.org/programs/waitwait/">Wait, Wait…Don’t tell
me during lightning fill in the blank.
Host: A shoplifter trying to make a clean getaway from a
Seattle Linens and Things was foiled when his girlfriend
[blanked].Contestant:Um - told him he’d snatched the wrong color towels?
Host: No…dropped her pet duck.
Could this possibly be anyone but the woman
href="http://www.psoul.com/index.cgi/living/seattle/DuckOnTheBus.html">Tanya
noticed on her bus a while ago? See also the
href="http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/308775_duck24.html">coverage
in the Seattle PI about this.
Here’s a great money-making idea for aspiring bloggers: find weird
stories in the news involving animals and start aggregating and
syndicating. Not all of them will be as funny as the duck-jackers (nor
as disgusting as
href="http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/03/oh_deer.html">this
Wisconsin man Scott Adams wrote about who is facing charges after
being caught having sex with a dead deer in a ditch), but I’m sure
there are enough stories in the daily news and there is enough
interest to keep a modest income stream from this.