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Chimpanzee Caught Driving In Florida
December 3rd, 2009 | 
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Cappy The Driving Chimpanzee!
I was channel hopping the other night (as I often do in the vague hope of finding something watchable – particularly as the TV guide is far from reliable) when I paused briefly at the History channel.
It was a program that seemed to be about wild animals in general being kept in captivity in the US and chimpanzees seemed to be the featured species.
I am not going into the rights and wrongs of keeping wild animals (or the stupidity of the untrained people who do so) as that is not what this blog is about. There have been some absolutely horrific attacks by “pets” in general and chimpanzees in particular in this regard and I think they speak quite eloquently by themselves. Knowing what you are doing and legitimately keep a wild animal is one thing. Not knowing and keeping one because it’s cool is another thing entirely.
What caught my attention was the statement that in December of 1963, Florida police pulled over a car that was being driven by a chimpanzee. Allegedly at 70 mph. The chimpanzee had apparently been trained or taught to drive – I assume as part of an act.
Can you imagine the look on a cop’s face – drawing alongside a speeding car – when he realized it was being driven by a chimpanzee? Priceless!
P.S. Many thanks to Bill who provided this picture of Cappy who is still alive and well.
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Tags: America, animals, chimpanzees, driving, Florida, police, TV | 
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Strange Search Terms
I am always interested (just like any other webmaster) to know how visitors found my blog. So I keep an eye on search words and/or phrases that result in hits. The following are some of the slightly stranger terms whereby visitors ended up here.
Do hedgehogs bounce?
Why do hedgehogs like to be bounced?
Hedgehog panties
Adolf the hedgehog
Hitler bouncing
Knickers down in public
Sex in Sven Hassel books
Hedgehog sex
Bloody hedgehog
Japanese hedgehog sex
The Blackshirts Are Coming!
A small history lesson in Fascism for all my readers today!
Back in 1919 in Italy the fascist paramilitary group the Blackshirts came into being and were not disbanded until the end of World War II. The Blackshirts were organized by Benito Mussolini as the military tool of his political movement. Their “methods” became harsher as Mussolini’s power grew and violence and intimidation against his opponents became commonplace.
The concept behind the Blackshirts was copied by others who shared Mussolini’s ideas and brand of fascism. Sir Oswald Mosley in the United Kingdom had his group of Blackshirts too. In the United States they became the Silver Shirts, in Mexico the Golden Shirts, in Brazil Green Shirts and blue became very popular in the Irish Free state, Canada and Spain. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: Adolf Hitler, America, blackshirts, cops, democracy, fascism, SA, SS, West Virginia |
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Naked Hedgehog Sex Surpasses Sharking
I am always interested to see how people find my blog and up until now the number one search term has been “sharking.” Sharking for those of you who don’t know is all about running up to a girl and yanking her knickers down in public whilst somebody else films the whole thing. The result is then posted on the Internet.
Now being a man of the world I can accept that sex (and sex related topics) are the main searches on any search engine. But the latest search term to feature highly in my “hits” really makes me wonder. Read the rest of this entry »
Once Upon A Time, There Was Bush, Gog, And Magog
I definitely did a double take when I first saw this in the news. as it concerns one of my top rated morons of all time I just couldn’t let it go by without commenting.
Apparently, in 2003 while lobbying leaders to put together the Coalition of the Willing (and not so willing in some cases), President Bush spoke to France’s President Jacques Chirac. Bush told him a story about how the Biblical creatures Gog and Magog were at work in the Middle East and how they must be defeated. This worrying episode was confirmed by Chirac. Read the rest of this entry »
Elephant Abuse Crisis In WV
I was somewhat bemused to see that Del. Barbara hatfield (D) of WV’s state legislature has proposed the following bill (WV HB 2061):
That the Code of West Virginia, 1931, as amended, be amended by adding thereto a new section, designated §61-8-24, to read as follows:
ARTICLE 8. CRIMES AGAINST CHASTITY, MORALITY AND DECENCY. Read the rest of this entry »
How To Be Your Own Grandfather
I was in a conversation the other day and a section of a book by Sven Hassel came to mind. I can’t remember which book but for those of you who don’t know Sven Hassel writes books on WWII from the German perspective. Anyway, to cut a long story short one of the characters was in trouble with the racial purities commission. Apparently he had become his own grandfather on paper and they just couldn’t figure out how that could possibly be legal. Read the rest of this entry »
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Tags: children, funny, Germany, grandfather, grandmother, Sven Hassel |
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Asparagus War?
For those of you who didn’t know, and I am sure there are quite a few, Cyprus was invaded by the Turks in 1974 and the end result was a split island which now operates under the auspices of a UN peacekeeping force.
Apparently the peacekeepers have upset the locals as they have refused them access to the UN patrolled buffer zone thus preventing the traditional harvesting of wild asparagus. Read the rest of this entry »
Ever Been To A Penis Museum?
One of the really bizarre things I came across during my travels was a penis museum in Húsavík, Iceland. Now I don’t know if the museum is unique within the world but I’ve certainly not heard of any others. The museum was founded in 1974 (I believe) by Sigurður Hjartarson. His aim is to collect a specimen from every single mammalian species indigenous to Iceland. Read the rest of this entry »
Sharking
Whilst having a random browse round the Internet I came across a reference to something called sharking. “WTF is sharking?” I asked myself. It turns out that sharking is not connected with fishing in any way at all but is one of those peculiarly Japanese “sports” that involves embarrassing women. Read the rest of this entry »