Bullwinkle’s Revenge
The animal uprising continues, getting worse by the day. Now a moose from Norway has knocked a tour bus full of elderly French tourists into a ditch. I tell you, this is getting out of hand.
OSLO, Norway - A bus carrying 40 elderly French tourists toppled into a ditch by a motorway in central Norway on Tuesday after passengers demanded the driver get closer to a moose grazing by the roadside so they could take snapshots, police said.
One woman suffered minor injuries in the accident on the motorway about 174 miles north of Oslo, the Norwegian capital. Eager to photograph the moose "in its natural environment," the tourists had asked the driver to get closer to the animal, after which the bus skidded off the edge of the motorway, district police officer at Gudbrandsdal, Sigmund Kaapvik, said.
The tourists were en route to the former Winter Olympic city Lillehammer, he said. The injured woman was examined at the local hospital and the motorway was briefly shut down. The moose, which was unharmed, was seen skipping away into the forest, Kaapvik added.
Now, you see just how clever these creatures are. They make it seem like it's the tourist's fault. The moose stands near a soft spot on the shoulder and looks innocent. when the bus gets close enough, the bank gives way and the moose skips away. It's evil genius in action.
You can expect another bus bushwhacking Bullwinkle story to pop up soon - it worked once.
By crosspatch, Tuesday, 1 August , 2006 @ 7:46 pm
Karl Rove has actually taken over the Department of Animal Control and a bunch of neo-cons are hunched in control rooms with joysticks manipulating various animals into causing trouble for the rest of us.