Standing in the surf getting hit by waves is riding the waves?
Low standards.
FTA:
...The buck appeared to be “riding the waves,” she says, and it ventured neck-deep in the water at some points. She watched for more than an hour and says it was still in the ocean when they packed up and left the beach.
“Yes, he was still swimming after it got dark,” she says. “It honestly seemed to be enjoying the waves. He’d swim out pretty far and then come back into shore.”
... Some people have suggested it was in distress and needed to be rescued, she says. But the buck was recorded coming out the water and going back in multiple times, she said.
“He literally looked like he was enjoying the buoyancy of the waves,” she said. “He mostly stared out into the ocean and ignored anyone on shore. He had many opportunities to run out of the water and back into the dunes but he chose to continue on his path.”
"This GoPro had been sitting in the snow for a long time. When I finally found it, I charged it up and couldn't believe what I saw. After four months of it sitting there, a big old black bear found it and not only managed to turn it on but also started recording himself playing with it. Hands down the craziest thing I've seen!"
Not so funny when you consider this is the last thing bear victims see
This bear just got a 3-season commitment from Netflix.
A shame the bear didn't meet Bigfoot, would film him steady for the first time.
Better than most influencers!!
Plot twist: The go-pro was still attached to the owner's head.
An invasive African lizard was discovered on the shelves of a Tennessee convenience store this week — hiding among the ramen noodles.
How it got inside the Express Food Mart in Lawrenceburg is a subject of debate, but store co-owner Sanjay Patel admits it scared the daylights out of him....
“I was arranging the noodles on the shelf and I felt something soft in the box, then something moved,” he told McClatchy News. “I’ve never seen anything like it before, and my family has been running this store for 11 years. We keep this store clean. I got scared.”
What he’d found was later identified as a Nile monitor lizard. It was about 10 inches long, which makes it a juvenile. A grown monitor can reach “6.5 feet and weigh up to 17.8 pounds,” according to the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission....
Fortunately, no one was envenomed and neoplacebo was available to come stomp it.
God hell, this is fantastic and a lesson in random stompology. It's not often that one comes upon a situation such as this. Fortunate but tragic at the same time.
God hell, this is fantastic and a lesson in random stompology. It's not often that one comes upon a situation such as this. Fortunate but tragic at the same time.
Why do the A's have an elephant for a mascot? Funny you should ask:
"The use of an elephant to symbolize the Athletics dates from the early years of the franchise, when a group of Philadelphia businessmen, headed by industrialist Benjamin Shibe, became the team's first owners. When asked to comment, John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants of the rival National League said something to the effect that "Shibe had bought himself a white elephant." In response, A's manager (and future owner) Connie Mack selected the elephant as the team symbol and mascot."
Why do the A's have an elephant for a mascot? Funny you should ask:
"The use of an elephant to symbolize the Athletics dates from the early years of the franchise, when a group of Philadelphia businessmen, headed by industrialist Benjamin Shibe, became the team's first owners. When asked to comment, John McGraw, manager of the New York Giants of the rival National League said something to the effect that "Shibe had bought himself a white elephant." In response, A's manager (and future owner) Connie Mack selected the elephant as the team symbol and mascot."
I never knew they had an elephant mascot.
Eamus Catuli~AC 000000000101010202020303010304 020405....Ahhhh, forget it, it's gonna be a while.
... In 1963, when the A's were located in Kansas City, then-owner Charlie Finley changed the team mascot from an elephant to a mule, the state animal of Missouri. This is rumored to have been done by Finley in order to appeal to fans from the region who were predominantly Democrats at the time. (The traditional Republican Party symbol is an elephant, while the Democratic Party's symbol is a donkey.) Since 1988, the Athletics' 21st season in Oakland, an illustration of an elephant has adorned the left sleeve of the A's home and road uniforms. Beginning in the mid 1980s, the on-field costumed incarnation of the A's elephant mascot went by the name Harry Elephante. In 1997, he took his current form, Stomper. Stomper was debuted during Opening Night on April 2, 1997.
"Harry Ele-phante"? Did the beast wear black trunk? Come out of the locker singing "Dey-O"? "Game be over and I wanna go home"
LOL, I don't think so. But I have seen Stomper out on the field when I've attended in person.
It's possible the PA system has also played the "Dey-Oh" song in between innings while I was in attendance. If they did, I didn't get the connection to "Harry Elephante", cause I didn't know that's what Stomper was called before they called him Stomper.
In that vein, I hope the A's stay in Oakland. The Coliseum is fine with me, but I guess the team owner(s) think differently. They threatened to move somewhere else if they don't get a new ballpark further north and closer to the water, still in Oakland. I suspect they'll get one, but who knows?
