This has everything needed for a terrible, tragic ending. Helicopter, trees, power lines and a gigantic saw. To think that I should have lived long enough to see it on video!
When it hit the metal grating, my first thought was to wonder if anyone ever tried cooking in lava. Kind of like Chinese "Beggar's Chicken", one could drop a chicken into lava, and then pull it out to cool. The residual heat could cook the chicken, leaving it inside a shell of rock to be broken after serving.
A friend of mine once came up with a great word for a group of congressmen: a flatulence of congressmen. This would make a great news line: "Legislation could not proceed because there was an insufficiently large flatulence to meet a quorum."
(Maybe a flatulence of politicians would be more generic)
Comments on the linked article mentioned the existence of "rat kings," in which many rats are joined together by their tangled or otherwise fused tails. A rat king can have a lot of rats in it . . . dozens. Brrr!
Their eggs can lie dormant for years. Their larvae can eat tadpoles. They feed during the day and night. They are really, really big. Uh, you get the picture, I'm sure. Oh, they might not be repelled by DEET.
(Maybe a flatulence of politicians would be more generic)
The crowd goes wild!
Their eggs can lie dormant for years. Their larvae can eat tadpoles. They feed during the day and night. They are really, really big. Uh, you get the picture, I'm sure. Oh, they might not be repelled by DEET.
If there ever were a time for mosquito-killing laser defense systems, this is it.