Tag Archives: imponderable

Imponderable #134: Faster, Squirrel! Kill! Kill!

30 Jun

June 30, 2017

This is the first of two editions of the Imponderable that The Editors and Staff call Wild Kingdom Animal Antics. (It gives us an excuse to come up with a new logo.) We’ve featured some bizarre animal stories in the past, but these are in a class by themselves. 

The source for this story is not a site I am familiar with but if this is true then we have a brand new super-villain on our hands. The odds of it being true are about nil to one, but hey, that’s what makes a good story. 

click to enlarge

In a nutshell, so to speak, a guy’s animal trainer ex-gf trained a pack of squirrels to attack him. And like you’d expect, the squirrels went for his nuts. But as I said above, we have the makings of a super-villain here. “She was partially hidden behind some bushes, but I could clearly see her and hear her. She was yelling orders at the squirrels and telling them to attack me.” 

This guy was just proof of concept. Having established that squirrels can be trained to attack, I’m sure the next step for her is to train them to rob banks. How long will it be until she has them hacking the U.S. Presidential election?

I admit up front (OK, at the end) that I don’t believe this for a single second. But who cares? 

Is this story more or less real than anything you see on CNN?
The question is Imponderable.

 

And thank you Jimbo for bringing this to my attention!

 

.

The Burning Question

5 Jun

June 5, 2017

What’s up with ghost clothes? Say your house is haunted by a ghost wearing evening clothes and a top hat, right out of the 1800’s. The ghost, while strolling through your walls, takes off his hat and puts it on your kitchen table. Then he leaves.

What happens to the hat? Does it fade away? Does it stay there? Are you stuck with an intangible, see-through hat in the middle of your table? Do you have to put up with it while you eat breakfast? Is it just going to stay there, being all ghostly and insubstantial, until the ghost comes back to get it? What can you do about the ghost hat?

 

.