Flying Floridian Fish
The Telegraph is reporting today that Florida has been invaded by flying sturgeons. They are leaping out of a river and attacking people on boats. Some say they don’t mean to attack but simply leap about because they can. Well, I can hop but I don’t use hopping as my primary mode of transport.
What surprised me the most were the two quotes offered by people to describe the attacks:
They’ve got a kind of armour plating that makes their bodies tough. It’s as if you were riding a motorcycle at 35 mph and someone threw a 100lb concrete block in your face. Major Bruce Hamlin
It was like 1,000 razor blades hitting me all at once when that fish jumped. I will never go near that river again. Dawn Poirier
Now, I think it is a safe assumption to make that Major Hamlin has not been hit in the face with a 100lb concrete block while riding at 35mph on a motorbike. I think its also a pretty safe assumption that Mrs Poirier has never been hit by 1,000 razor blades at once. That would be far too cost-prohibitive - £7.98 for 4 blades gives a cost of £1,995 for the 1,000 blades. No sturgeon would go to this financial outlay, plus they would have trouble keying in their PIN on the Chip & PIN keypad.
Sticking with obscure headlines, this is one from the BBC I never thought I would see: Cricket: England cruise to victory Just goes to show anything is possible.
Anyway, I’m back and full of more random useless information 