Amazing bear rescue

Here’s the story, and the text that came with the pictures …an incredibly lucky bear in many ways!

This is just incredible.
A VERY lucky bear.
The first photo is actually
the last one.
They were out of sequence.

A bear was walking across Rainbow Bridge (Old Hwy 40 at Donner Summit, Truckee) on Saturday when two cars also crossing the bridge scared the bear into jumping over the edge of the bridge. Somehow the bear caught the ledge and was able to pull itself to safety. At one point the bear tested its ability to climb down by lowering its feet down the side but decided against that idea and pulled itself back up! Authorities decided that nothing could be done to help Saturday night so they returned Sunday morning to find the bear sound asleep on the ledge. After securing a net under the bridge the bear was tranquilized, fell into the net, lowered, then woke up and walked out of the net.

More pictures after the break …

Larry Craig sticks the hot dog in the hole!

Literally! With pictures! A recipe that sounds both tasty and disturbing at the same time.

Tattoo Regrets

About three years ago, I got my one and (so far) only tattoo, a phoenix rising out of a fire on my lower left leg. Being that it’s going to be visible for hopefully quite a long time, I wanted something that would be meaningful to me. Rankmytattoo.com has compiled some of the more questionable ideas for tattoos that they’ve seen. I think these have to be my favorites … First, can anything bring a huge wave of schadenfreude-istic smiles to people like a typo on a tattoo? I can laugh because it didn’t happen to me …

As for questionable designs, I would think a subway map would certainly have to qualify …

Or how about branding a fast food logo on your body for all time? There’s more than one person out there who’s thought this was a great idea!

Nicely put

Occasionally someone is able to encapsulate an entire event, an entire media circus, with just a few words. From the “A President Visit’s” blog, this guy may have come as close as anyone to capturing the attitude of many Americans towards Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s visit to Columbia …

$15 for a JCPenney’s hookah in 1975!

Back in my day we got our water pipes from JCPenney’s and we liked it just fine! Jancee Dunn finds a 1975 JCPenney’s catalog and all kind of great items that seem to have been discontinued sometime between then and now. Be sure to check out the Burger King driver thru children’s toy, or how about that fur-lined toilet seat? The sanitary considerations boggle the mind …