The View From Silverhorn Mountain - Sunday Edition
Hey Silverhorner's ! Happy April 6th! At least the sun was shining here on Silverhorn Mountain today, it made the freezing temperatures a little easier to stand. Where exactly is spring? Isn't it time for the wildflowers to start to bloom? Tulips to sprout? Birds to chirp? So far I haven't seen much of any of that, although I did hear a crow 'caw' today...
Apparently a Reading, Pennsylvania man figured that he would make better time as he ran from the police if he removed his clothes first...that was after his van crashed when he climbed on the roof at about 55 miles per hour.....Yup...he stripped nude and ran down the highway with police in chase and yup they tasered him....and pepper sprayed him....he's in the hospital, apparently they didn't charge him...probably felt sorry for him. So the lesson is, if you are being chased by police...um...I'm not sure there is a lesson in this one...
In California the police must be really, really, slow, as a Palo Alto guy robbed a bank and escaped on an electric wheelchair. A man in his 60's with grey hair and beard is wanted for the robbery...he might be in a wheelchair. He was last seen motoring down the street toward a place called El Camino Real....wow...what a cool name, El Camino Real...now that would be a cool name for a blog...El Camino Real..The View From El Camino Real...but I digress...
Animals In the News
Feel like a little chinese for supper tonight? Apparently a tiger in northest China did, he ate a mentally ill fellow who wandered into the tigers cage on Friday. All they found was his legs and skull. His parents said the 37 year old always loved tigers.
Jeezus...did ya hear the news that Moses died? (that one is not going to go over well at the Gates to Heaven is it?) Turns out poor old Charlton Heston who always seemed to have his shirt off in movies has passed on. Charlie, as those of us in the entertainment business called him, played all kinds of parts...I have no idea how many and I'm too lazy to try and find out. I'm sure the other news reports and blogs are full of statistics like that...I don't even know for sure how old he was...old, I know that...the last time he took his shirt off a two members of the NRA asked him to put it back on....
My fondest memory of Charlton Heston was when he was standing at the podium rousing the National Rifle Association, (NRA) brandishing an old flintlock above his head, looking like he was leading a bunch of outlaws off to raid the town...except even then he looked a little old for the job...I think he had his shirt on that time though...
Well, I think I may have pissed off enough folks for one evening, I think I shall retire now to the drawing room...I feel like warming up some left over egg rolls....
