[1584] in Humor
HUMOR: News duds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (abennett@MIT.EDU)
Fri Sep 6 15:46:45 1996
From: <abennett@MIT.EDU>
To: humor@MIT.EDU
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 1996 15:35:21 EDT
Date: Fri, 6 Sep 96 13:28:07 MDT
From: rmerz@redwood.dn.hac.com (Rulane Merz)
The following are news duds (bizarre news snippets) that KYGO in
Denver played yesterday morning:
In Brazil, a woman who is running for town council promised that if
the people voted for her, she would walk down the main street wearing
nothing but paint.
In Cortez, CO, a man has invented a machine to suck up prairie dogs.
It seems that one night he dreamed of a big yellow truck that went
about picking up prairie dogs. So he invented it. The truck is
outfitted with a hose that can be placed over prairie dog holes.
The hose is connected to a machine that can produce enough suction to
vacuum up the prarie dogs at 300mph. The prairie dogs wind
up in a foam-padded cell on the truck. That way, they aren't hurt,
and they can be relocated to somewhere that isn't in a housing development.
The end of the hose is outfitted with a camera. The camera isn't necessary
for the machine to work. But the look on those prairie dogs' faces as they
are sucked up into the hose...
