A boat party in an exclusive area of Long Island Sunday night was interrupted - when a severed human hand mysteriously dropped out of the sky onto the deck of a boat
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The man... used a garden hose as a breathing tube and jumped into the lake with a rope and a 20-pound anchor tied to his waist... The victim was unresponsive for a short time but began breathing on his own. He refused medical treatment.
yeap, been there, done that. so why isn't the news ever about anything unusual?
seriously, thanks maji... this is all good stuff, lol. and that reminds me- sometimes i wish a GF would come dropping out of the sky and land in the vicinity, but i haven't had much luck with my plan so far.
actually, that reminds me of something else, and i really am serious now:
i've gone over five years living in this house and am set to move out in about two days, and have always greatly enjoyed my view of the amazing, acrobatic squirrels jumping from tree branch to tree branch in the back alley, and yet during the entire time never ONCE saw an aerial mishap. yet a couple days ago, not ONE, not TWO, but THREE young squirrels all slipped and fell out of the trees while i was nearby.
with the first one, i heard a >THUMP<, looked up, and saw a squirrel across the alley on a mid-level roof where i'm almost positive there was no squirrel previously. it sort of slowly wandered to another area of the roof and rested awhile. then a couple minutes later i heard another thump that was actually closer to a >SPLAT< and looked around until i saw another little shape on the backroad of the alley once again slowly crawling away from the presumed impact site. my curiosity stimulated, i decided to go out back and take a closer look. upon arriving, however, i couldn't actually find the second squirrel, and was about to head back inside when i heard a tremendous rustling in the highest branches of a tree (my guess about 70 feet up) and almost immdediately saw a little shape fall from the branches and come hurtling towards the ground, about eight feet away from where i was standing. much to my amazement and delight, however, shortly before impact with the ground the (squirrel) was able to line itself up with two cable TV lines which i had failed to note. the impact of the squirrel on the lines was fairly impressive, causing them to start undulating not unlike a trampoline while the little animal hung on for dear life. and when the motion had stopped the squirrel once again took a short recess to collect itself, then ran in wobbily fashion along the cable line and finally disappeared up a nearby tree, with the apparant aim of rejoining the squirrel games still in progress (seems like the mother took a whole nest of them out for their first spring day).
so only then did i walk back inside to continue my important internet research...
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