This is just too funny not to post...
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Jurched
Ask&YoullBeSorry
Stupid beavers! Hate themmmmm....!
Only two weeks ago, I was hiking with my wife and a group through a state park. Trail passed between two ridges. The wooded area was devastated. Like a terrible plague had swept through and just killed an entire forest.
No, it was the beaver.
It had built a dam at one end of the gully, which backed up the little brook winding in amongst the thick forest. Rising waters drowned out well over a hundred acres of pristine pine forest.
I would have wiped out the damned rat, or at least poke few holes in the dam and drain the gully. Instead, the park engineered a little footbridge of logs crossing over the flooded causeway on the far end of the gully, where the trail used to cross the little brook.
I had to help an old-timer across the narrow logs, and his fake hips were buckling like crazy in the strain! Heard the old timer utter a few f-words at the obvious stupidity of the whole thing.
Praised be the wondrous little forest-killing rats. They make Caterpillar bulldozers look tame by comparison!
Jurched
Only two weeks ago, I was hiking with my wife and a group through a state park. Trail passed between two ridges. The wooded area was devastated. Like a terrible plague had swept through and just killed an entire forest.
No, it was the beaver.
It had built a dam at one end of the gully, which backed up the little brook winding in amongst the thick forest. Rising waters drowned out well over a hundred acres of pristine pine forest.
I would have wiped out the damned rat, or at least poke few holes in the dam and drain the gully. Instead, the park engineered a little footbridge of logs crossing over the flooded causeway on the far end of the gully, where the trail used to cross the little brook.
I had to help an old-timer across the narrow logs, and his fake hips were buckling like crazy in the strain! Heard the old timer utter a few f-words at the obvious stupidity of the whole thing.
Praised be the wondrous little forest-killing rats. They make Caterpillar bulldozers look tame by comparison!
Jurched
johnnieCzech
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Hell_Awaits
One more for the road
You know its a good article when you get lines like "rounded up a gang of beavers." and "There's nothing more natural than a beaver"
Jurched
Ask&YoullBeSorry
Those Austrians are a wacky bunch! First every other guy's holding sex slaves in their dungeons, then gangs of beavers terrorize the local water supply, and now we have hilarious sit-com incidents hitting the stage:
Actor cuts throat on Vienna stage
An actor narrowly escaped death after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife, instead of a blunt stage-prop blade. Daniel Hoevels slumped to the floor with blood pouring from his neck during a performance at Vienna's Burgtheater. He was rushed to hospital with a deep slice to his throat which fortunately missed his main artery.
The real-life drama happened last weekend during a performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots. Mr Hoevels's character was supposed to commit suicide and the actor used what he thought was a blunt prop weapon.
"If the actor had put a little more pressure on the knife or even struck an artery, he would probably have bled to death on the stage," a doctor who treated Mr Hoevels, 30, told the newspaper Oesterreich.
Kind of reminds me of old TV shows like BBC's Black Adder I where Black Adder encouraged McAngus to be the lead role of a mystery play called "The Death of the Scotsman" where he gets "murdered" in the end, only Black Adder switch the stunt knife with a real one.
But here's the best part:
Applause for 'stunt'
The audience is said to have applauded what they thought was a stunning special effect, and only realised something was wrong when the actor staggered off stage to receive treatment.
I swear, what's next for those WACKY Austrians? OPEC members trampled to death by a runaway circus elephant? School children accidently poisoned by sex lube which was thought to be toothpaste?
Jurched
Actor cuts throat on Vienna stage
An actor narrowly escaped death after slashing his throat on stage with a real knife, instead of a blunt stage-prop blade. Daniel Hoevels slumped to the floor with blood pouring from his neck during a performance at Vienna's Burgtheater. He was rushed to hospital with a deep slice to his throat which fortunately missed his main artery.
The real-life drama happened last weekend during a performance of Friedrich Schiller's play Mary Stuart, about Mary Queen of Scots. Mr Hoevels's character was supposed to commit suicide and the actor used what he thought was a blunt prop weapon.
"If the actor had put a little more pressure on the knife or even struck an artery, he would probably have bled to death on the stage," a doctor who treated Mr Hoevels, 30, told the newspaper Oesterreich.
Kind of reminds me of old TV shows like BBC's Black Adder I where Black Adder encouraged McAngus to be the lead role of a mystery play called "The Death of the Scotsman" where he gets "murdered" in the end, only Black Adder switch the stunt knife with a real one.
But here's the best part:
Applause for 'stunt'
The audience is said to have applauded what they thought was a stunning special effect, and only realised something was wrong when the actor staggered off stage to receive treatment.
I swear, what's next for those WACKY Austrians? OPEC members trampled to death by a runaway circus elephant? School children accidently poisoned by sex lube which was thought to be toothpaste?
Jurched
