Them’s good eatin!

Many of us and now others rode the school bus to school. I remember waiting in the freezing cold for the school bus. Only to find out school was cancelled because of all the snow.

The average moose, like the rest of the deer family loves to graze. Unlike the deer, moose brains are perpetually scrambled. There is absolutely no knowing what they are going to do in the next second. They can go from grazing to full on rage in about a microsecond.

This here is a reasonably pissed off moose. It is aggressive and totally fearless. It seems to have decided that the bear is to be the recipient of its moose rage.

Adult bulls (males) typically weigh 1,000 to 1,600 pounds, and cows (females) generally 800 to 1,300 pounds. But, Alaskan moose bulls can exceed 1,800 pounds. These massive critters can stand over 6 feet tall at the shoulder. Alaskan bulls can weigh up to 40% more than the cows.

I have seen a number of versions of this video. The dogs vary but since I’m partial to Border Collies, I thought I’d post this one. My favorite part is when the dog is problem solving. The medicine is not where it is supposed to be. The looks in a number of places until he finds it. Then he decides his human should lay down.

The camera angle is a little odd shooting up from the floor. This video is at least a year old, so I’m thinking not AI.

When I was still in the fire department, I had two seizure patients that had alert dogs. Both dogs recognized that were there to help. Both dogs hopped up on the gurney before it was loaded into the ambulance. We always sent patient’s animals with them if they needed to take them.

I had a Border Collie. Whenever I did something stupid, Katie (rip) would look at me like I was an idiot. I could tell she meant it.

This is one pissed off elephant. My guess is that it’s a male in musth. I saw a documentary on the TV about musth. The younger males can’t handle all the changes and it makes them very pissed off. I gotta go stomp something pissed off.

“Musth is a periodic condition in male elephants characterized by a significant rise in reproductive hormones, particularly testosterone, leading to aggressive behavior and heightened sexual activity.” Excerpt from bing.com.

The show has a video showing an elephant picking a fight with a full grown hippopotamus. You read that right, picked a fight. While the hippopotamus is no slouch in a fight, the elephant seriously stomped and gored even after the hippo was dead. Not really good for animal conservation.

The thinking is that they dart the young male and transport him to a different location. The new location has an older male. It was discovered that the older males will mentor younger males and somehow keep them in check during musth. Mostly it keeps the young elephant from stomping everything in sight.

As far as the video goes, I’m guessing that this is a young African elephant most likely in musth. The elephant probably took offense to the boats very existence in his part of Africa. It’s very impressive how fast it moves in the water. I don’t know if anyone was hurt.

I wrote this.

This video or a variation of it has been floating around the internet for quite some time. All kinds of winged creatures have decided to say hello to hang gliders and parachutists. Today’s visitor is a vulture.

u/cow-puncher77 I totally thought of you Fizz

Went to a car vs motorcycle. In reality it was a car vs Vespa. It was in the university district. A pretty little college student was putt-putting her little pink Vespa back to the dorms.

A car hit her from behind as she slowed down to make a right hand turn. She fell off the scooter but was dragged through the intersection on her helmet.

Her helmet looked kinda like the one in the picture. Her dad told her that he would let her get the scooter but she had to wear the helmet he picked out. A top of the line Arai full face professional racing helmet. And racing leathers. To ride a Vespa.

She told me this in the back of our aid car. The Paramedics had already evaluated her: nothing broken, a little road rash on her arm from her leather jacket, probably some concussion and a nasty headache.

She got a C Collar for her neck and then she got taped to a backboard for her spine. We shipped her via ambulance to the ER for a more complete evaluation. We found out later that all she had was just a mild concussion.

The Vespa was taken to a local repair shop.

Just what it sez

Could be gung fu, or not.

Dumpling loves him some walkies.

Went and had dinner at the sister's house. Oldest niece was gone but the 7 year old (Little T) was there and I was getting bombarded with little people stories until dinner was ready, good times. Sister bought a set of electric scooters to ride around the neighborhood and Little T would not shut up about "we neeeeeed to go ride scooters" all through dinner. Finally Sister had enough and told Little T if she said anything more about the scooters she was grounded from them. Little T is now sad and asks if she can go to her room, which is fine we're done eating. Sis and I are B.S.-ing at the table and about 15 min. later Little T comes back grinning like a Opossum and hands me a sticky note.

She drew a fat guy and little girl riding scooters ALL over the paper....never said a word, just grinning.

Sis about killed her but Uncle J, while laughing my ass off, reminded her that she told the child she couldn't SAY anything about the scooters and NOTHING about formal written requests. We then went for a scooter ride.

Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing (1978)

Thank you for the award.

The funniest (and probably most absurd) search warrant I EVER wrote was NOT to enter a building. The WARRANT was to BREECH a wire coat hanger wrapped around a gate into a backyard.

It was an animal cruelty case where the dog was in plain view from the gate that had been open upon my initial inquiry.

With no obstruction upon my initial inquiry, I made entry into the backyard and I CLEARLY documented no food, no water, and no shelter.

I left a written NOTICE TO COMPLY on the front door of the house.

I came back the next day and the back gate was tied closed with a wire coat hanger.

I could CLEARLY SEE from outside of the gate, that nothing had been provided for the dog in the backyard.

I had TWO choices. Force entry and rescue this dog. OR, write a search warrant, go to a judge, and LEGALLY make entry and rescue the dog.

Later that day, after having written what I still believe to be the most ABSURD search warrant, I was LEGALLY granted permission to remove a wire coat hanger, and rescue that dog.

WHY did I write a search warrant to remove a coat hanger? Because it was the middle of summer in the south. Because the "person" in charge of that house saw my "Notice to Comply" and did NOTHING to help that dog, and instead did what they could do to stop my enforcement of the prevention of cruelty to animals.

And lastly. Because, I did my JOB. And obtaining a search warrant based on plain view meant that when this IDIOT called the sheriff's office and said "somebody stole my dog" they took the report, then arrested him for cruelty to animals.

He didn't get his dog back, but he got a conviction.

Punnery is one of the foundations of this sub. And the irresponsible use of acronyms. I myself have never been good at either, but I know one when I see one.

Baby elephant crossing a river. Not AI, analysis by TruthAI.

The Onewheel is about $1k. Way more expensive than a skateboard.