Boy's scream kills 443 chickens

I had to read this story twice to believe it myself, but it is true. A court in East China has ruled that 443 chickens were killed by a four year old screaming. Let me set up the story........the boy arrived at a village home in the eastern province of Jiangsu in the summer with his father who was delivering bottles of gas.
A villager was quoted as saying the little boy bent over the henhouse window, screaming for a long time, after being scared by the dog.
"One neighbor told police that he had heard the boy's crying that afternoon and another villager confirmed the boy screaming by the henhouse window."
A court ruled the boy's screaming was "the only unexpected abnormal sound" and that 443 chickens trampled each other to death in fear.
The boy's father was ordered to pay 1,800 yuan ($230) in compensation to the owner of the chickens. If a little boy's scream can kill that many chickens imagine what opera singer can do.

Signed

Tim " I'm glad that I'm not a chicken" Crippen

DABears are back

Wow what can you say DABears are back in the SuperBowl as they take on Peyton "Blockhead" Manning and the Colts in SuperBowl XLI. I call him blockhead because if you look at him close enough he looks Charlie Brown from the Peanuts strip...hehehe. It will be a good game but I'm going to call my shot right now. I know most of the experts are going with Indy, but I say Chicago will win this one.....if that defenses plays like that on Super Sunday it's going to be a long day for the Colts. My score prediction Indy 20 Chicago 24. I should give my hats off to the New Orleans Saints, they played an great performance for most of the game and for what has happen to their team and the city it's a great story. They will be back next year and will contend again. Twenty one years since this team has been back and thank God the Colts won because I did not want to see rematch between New England vs. Chicago. Yet for some reason this team doesn't have the same swagger as the 85 team. You had players like Jim mcmahon, Walter Peyton, Willie Gault, Mike Singletary, The Fridge and the infamous SuperBowl shuffle song that made characters out of this team. Now we replace them with Rex Grossman, Thomas Jones, Desmond Clark, Brian Urlacher and the Bears fight song (look for previous post to find Bears fight song). Anyway, it should be a good game .....I leave you now with some pictures of Bears.
Signed
Tim" the biggest Bears Fan" Crippen

Winter what are you going to do about it

There's an old saying in the post office that "No matter what the weather....sunshine, rain, snow, sleet or ice we will deliver the mail." Well, it's winter and what are you going to do about it...you can only crank up the heater so much." I will admit it that I am not a fan of winter weather....in fact I despise it. It's days like today that I'm thinking I would rather be someplace warm like Cancun, Miami or San Diego. However, winter does serve some good purposes like snow for skiing, killing of bugs and the rebirth of new buds forming on trees even though it's suppose to happen in the springtime. I know there is other purposes, but I can't think of any others right now. Although, I know spring is right around the corner (no pun intended Spring) with the Boat and RV shows coming into town, baseball spring training, and when kites are in store. AHHH don't you just love the warmth. When I see a guy or gal jumping into ice water I think of one of three things. A. Their part of the polar ice club B. Their doing it for charity C. Their just plain nuts. I know this sounds too much like an anti winter blog, but hey I don't care it's my blog and that's how I feel. Besides, I have deal with it just like everybody else for the next two months or three weeks if you believe that little groundhog.

One crowded house

I came across this article that you have to read.....this past weekend there was a major snowstorm near Clayton, NM. A town I actually pass by through on my way back through New Mexico area. Anyway, if this doesn't say love your neighbor I don't know what does.http://dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-stranded if the article doesn't come up search for stranded motorists

Predictions for 2007 and the chiefs

Okay let me get K.C. chiefs thing out the way so I can get to my predictions for 2007. Going into New Years Eve if you were to tell me the Chiefs would make the playoffs on the last regular season game....I would have said "your crazy"!!! The odds of them making the playoffs are like me going out on date with a Dallas Cowboys cheerleader. Yet, beyond belief they pulled it out and three other teams lost to sneak into playoffs.....if they get into the Superbowl this year....I will personally hang upside down a tree and eat bananna, post a picture on my blog to show proof that I did it.

Predictions for 2007:
"You'll probably we'll here the words "molecular nanotechnology" used more often in the science community in building products that are cleaner, lighter, stronger and more precise.

The US millitary finally gets Osama Bin Laden

I will win the Publisher Clearing House Sweepstakes (hey, a guy a can dream can't he)

The Kansas City Royals will not lose 100 games this year

I will be eithier working on a play or being a part of a play...I'm leaning toward the latter

The Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team will relocate to Kansas City.

President Bush will use a new phrase "fashizzle my dizzle".

Online dating will start going out of style and being set up by your friends will be back in trend

Another Big time CEO of a major company will get himself into trouble for cooking the books.

And finally Airlines will be losing more luggage this year than last year...in other words your luggage will have a better time in Hawaii then you will.