Freak Files: 08-31-07
WATCH YOUR HEAD…TROUT ARE FALLING
It’s raining trout in Colorado. The state Division of Wildlife is stocking hundreds of lakes with 325,000 trout dropped from airplanes. The planes get within 125 feet of the lake surface before releasing the fish so they don’t dry out before they hit the water. The fish are dropped from a hopper mounted on the plane’s
HOLY WATER BANNED FROM AIRPORTS
Earlier this week, a group of Catholic pilgrims, who’d just filled up bottles of holy water at the Our Lady of Lourdes Cathedral in France, tried to get on a plane to Rome. And they were all told they couldn’t bring more than three ounces of holy water onboard. These people were the first people to fly on a new airline, called Mistral Air, which was built to fly people to and from different Catholic pilgrimage destinations. Mistral Air is going to start regular service next year…and to make sure this doesn’t happen again, they’re going to pre-bottle holy water for their fliers, and have it waiting for them on their seats when they board the planes.
AN ELEPHANT BREAKS INTO A CIRCUS
There’s a 26-year-old wild bull elephant in Raniganj, in eastern India, who is a PLAYA!!! On Wednesday, said wild bull elephant SMASHED through the tin walls of a circus that was in Raniganj…so he could get into the stable where the circus kept their trained, tamed performance elephants. Once he was inside, he managed to quickly SEDUCE a female elephant, named Savitri. . . AND get her to RUN AWAY with him. They left the circus together, and, according to people who saw them, they were, quote, “much in love.” There are only two problems. One: Losing an elephant costs the circus owner a lot…Savitri is worth an estimated $9,700. And two: Apparently, Savitri was very close with another female elephant in the circus…and since she ditched her friend to run off with a guy, that other female elephant has been moping and refusing to perform.








