Notice the question mark in my title? Strange tales, yes. True? I’ll leave that to you.
Morning Bulletin 31 Dec 1946 http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article56412657
Obviously most of the news stories I blog about have a pretty good chance of not being true, and, as usual, these ones probably all have a small element of truth behind them.
Except for the little girls and the salt on the bird’s tail though, that one sounds like someone listened to too many folk myths in the past!
The man in Montana who punched a cow and broke his hand got what he deserved really didn’t he? Cows mainly just act like cows as far as I know, losing patience with one won’t make it do anything it didn’t want to do.
The liquid shampoo made from the active ingredient in flame throwers sounds a little scary. You wouldn’t want to lean too close to the fire when you were drying your hair just in case…
I love the urban myth type tales of the man who found out the fine for slapping his wife was $50 and considered it money well spent and the prisoner who dieted to fit through the bars of his cell.
The Brooklyn man and the whooping rabbit though, that guy probably needs the kind of help that the courts are not capable of dealing out….
The rabbit might have been celebrating a lottery win. If I ever get one that’s what I’ll do too.
I think I would too!
The guy with the rabbit—why didn’t he just say he was drunk? (joking). I do wonder if he ever got the help he needed?
I wonder how much noise a rabbit makes when it is charging around an apartment (apart from the dubious whooping of course). I can’t imagine that it would be too noisy really, he was either a really cranky neighbour or had issues that an expert might need to help him with!
The salt on a bird’s tale was something we were told as kids… I guess if you can get that close… I’d like to believe the white rabbit is true, and in his mind it was probably real brought on by an over indulgence in substances. As for the rest, they’re probable especially the incendiary shampoo, who knows what is in anything… scary to think about.
I always thought the same thing, if you can get that close the salt shaker would only get in the way…
The incendiary shampoo does sound a little worrisome but you’re right, who knows what is in anything these days! Back then it would probably have been even worse….
-giggles- I wonder how thin you’d have to be to get your /head/ through the bars?
I always thought that heads were mainly the problem! Not amount of dieting will shrink a fat head will it…
Sadly not.
Maybe it was the year of the rabbit and the rabbit was throwing a Lunar New Year’s Party?
…..and the crowd shouts “Whoop whoop!”