By: Wilde S. Tory
San Antonio Express News Staff Writer
It was a bizarre trip for San Antonio's commuters yesterday morning. Traffic was clogged to a slow crawl as dozens of animals appeared along the roadside. From approximately 7:00am to 9:30 am beasts of a number of different species took on the new role of road hazards. Captain Justin Time of the San Antonio Police reported that he had never seen anything quite like it. "We checked with the zoo and some of the large surrounding ranches, but no one seems to be missing any animals, your guess is as good as mine where these creatures came from", reported Captain Time when asked the origin of the melee. Ida Hadim was on her way in to work at a law firm downtown when she was approached and detained by a llama who was unwilling to grant her the right of way. "That bugger parked his carcass in front of my Audi, and let me tell you, he was not moving", an exasperated Ms. Hadim told this reporter.
The state police was notified and brought in to ascertain where such a large number of animals could have come from all at once on a warm clear morning in January. As of late yesterday afternoon special trooper-in-charge Harry 'Hare' Spray was still scratching his bald dome and appearing mostly speechless. "We will get to the bottom of this", was the only promise that Trooper Spray was willing to share. Several motorists told harrowing tales of the various beasts walking right up to their vehicles. Some more fortunate drivers were able to roll their windows up in time but still many other anxious drivers had to contend with some very curious creatures poking their heads in their autos.
One slight mishap occurred when an ostrich was inadvertently caught in the mechanism as one dapper fellow in a convertible attempted to raise his roof. If it weren't for a nearby paramedic, Sawyer Leggoff, the ostrich would most assuredly lost its head. Mr. Leggoff's quick thinking and attentive skills were captured live by a KCUD news team as he worked to free the ostrich. Mr. Leggoff told the news staff it was all in a day's work.
The mayor ordered the mobilization of the entire San Antonio canine unit to round up all of the wily intruders and move them to temporary shelter in one of the city's impound lots. It has been stated that the animals would stay in impound until their owners, if they have owners, could be reached.
One curious note, many of the affected commuters reported that the animals all seem to be making the same noise, almost like words. It seems that the animals were asking for some fella named "Noah". This reporter, for one, is stymied.
San Antonio weather calls for a chance of heavy showers.
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Oh, wait, there is no higher land in Texas.
Could you please raise your fonts so I can read it better , thanks.
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from me to you.
Thanks to all of you who liked this. Just killing time before a meeting.
Rory do you need a brother, I have one to auction off to the best bidder?
Inquire at the SA news.
(Robert: I have no idea where you made up the bit about the apartment and the stew, but you clearly have a very erroneous image of Bancroft. As my father said, I live in the forest.)
As I Am the CENTER of the known universe, none of these statements make sense.
LOL (Susan, you may join in and help me out, my dear adopted sister.)
Cool Collection of Tidbits, Cathartic Cat Capers, and Kibbles
As far as the paste copy from Word issue, there is a button on the article editor that lets you paste as plain text which will remove all formatting, including too small font size. One trick I use is I copy/paste in Wordpad and then into Gather. Usually, this will allow me to retain formatting.
Peace & God Bless
(Landen, thanks for the formatting tips)
(hope that's not blasphemy..... LOL)
Also, thank you for checking out my second chapter. I really appreciate your kind words.
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Rene A.