Evolution Marches On

In an astonishing feat of adaptation, trees in Washington State have evolved the ability to seize and ingest bicycles.  The is an advantageous mutation for the tree because

1. it gets more iron in its diet
2. it becomes unharvestable by Evil Big Timber

In addition, it suggests a more sustainable way of getting all those old used bicycles off the street.  The mutation is so radical that evolutionists are hailing it as an instance of speciation and creationists are denying it has even happened.  Some environmentalists meanwhile believe that it was the bicycle that attacked the tree and that the event proves the dangers of riding bicycles at high speed in the woods.  They point out ominously that the bicycle's seat -- and any likely rider -- is fully embedded in the tree. 

Headlines You Don't See Every Day

"Man Arrested After Being Found Standing Over Goat, Wearing Women's Underwear"

--headline, Charleston (W.Va.) Daily Mail, May 3

Presumably, it is against the law to do so.

And how did the goat get into women's underwear anyway?
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"Needle Found in Ex-South Korea President's Lung"--headline, Reuters, May 3

Keeping to the theme of things found in lungs, previously noted here and here.  There is no indication that this needle was related to the fir tree growing in another man's lung.

Dept. of Good Advice

Do Not Put a Crocodile in Your Carry-On Baggage

Crocodile on plane kills 19 passengers

Is This Some Kind of Trend?

It's Always in the Last Place You Look
"You Cannot Pea Serious! Doctors Amazed to Find Vegetable Growing in Pensioner's Lung"--headline, Daily Mail (London), Aug. 12

See this previous post:  http://m-francis.livejournal.com/tag/fir%20trees%20in%20lungs [2nd item]