Currency and Rice

The State Bank of India has reported the unprecidented theft of over ten million rupees which is roughly equal to about $214,000.  They do have a list of suspects, but they are numerous and devilishly hard to catch.

They are termites (story here).

Apparently the bank officials originally tried to keep this quiet, but the new manager kept hearing tiny "burps" followed by tiny "excuse me's" and couldn't ignore the problem.  Upon inspecting the currency chests all they found was colorful dust. 

All I can say is I hope they pay the Orkin man with a credit card.

-- Brackish

It's Bark Is NOT Worse Than It's Bite

"I think that I shall never see, a poem as bloody vicious as a tree", or so Joyce Kilmer would have written if he had lived in Padrame, India. If news reports are to be believed the village is being harassed by ferocious foliage that is not to be satisfied with a little bald kid's kites (story here). Keep in mind this is the same news media that reported the "monkey man" attacks and the rampage of the "bear man". So this story is a tad bit suspect.

In my dreams of owning real estate I see a nice cabin by the lake of fire with few bleeding Aligheri thorn bushes and one or two of these "tiger trees". A prettier picture Thomas Kincade couldn't paint. However, I've never had much of green thumb, and these "tiger trees" might just take off my whole arm, so maybe I'll just plan on sticking to thorns instead.

Brackish