Recycling an old image because I love it so:
That’s just so fucking Florida. True story: shortly after my snowbird in-laws moved to an Active Senior Lifestyle CommunityTM down here, they discovered a smallish gator — two or three feet long — lurking next to where they keep their trash cans.
They called the community services people, but the bubbas manning the phones just laughed when informed of the gator’s size and told them to handle it themselves since it was barely more than a lizard.
So my father-in-law and a couple of neighbors maneuvered the gator into a garbage can, slammed the lid shut, bungee-corded the can to a golf cart and transported the wee gator to a nearby swamp, where it was freed. It was a lucky critter; a trapper might have turned it into a clutch-purse.
Anyhoo, open thread.
burnspbesq
You know that empty feeling you get when you finally get to try out a product that has been hyped to the skies by the hip cognoscenti, and it turns out to be breathtakingly mediocre?
Yeah, that feeling.
The Bakoon HPA-01 portable headphone amplifier.
Amir Khalid
That’s funny. Firefox has crashed on my laptop twice today, for no apparent reason.
That photo reminds me of Andy Williams’ old show from the late 1960s-early 1970s. They had this recurring bit where a bear(-suited guy) would ring Andy’s doorbell in the dead of night and pester Andy for cookies. Andy would come out in a long nightshirt and cap, yell at the bear, and then slam the door in his face.
kc
That is a great pic.
Amir Khalid
@burnspbesq:
So how expensive a lesson in product hype was it?
d58826
Since the topic is Florida, the good Sen. Rubio has a 5 point plan to deal with Ebola. Most of what he says is reasonable except when he comes to a vote on his plan he will vote no. He talks about more funding for ebola reserarch but forgets to mention the 50% drop in NIH funding that the GOP has been largely responsible for. He doesn’t use the word but wants an Ebola czar appointed to co-ordiante federal actions. Of course he won’tr vote for the obvious solution – confirm Obama’s choiuced for Surgeon General.
Talk is cheap, the voters memories are short and the Villagers would never point out the embarring contradictions. Life in 2014 America I guess.
shortstop
My sister lived in central Florida for a short period in the late 1980s. The biggest piece of culture shock for her was learning that you could never let pets run around outside unattended. Never.
Botsplainer
@burnspbesq:
I nearly bought the gutter cleaning robot while drinking this past weekend because of a Modern Family episode I was watching. Something caught me before I purchased it in my Amazon cart.
schrodinger's cat
You want spooky, I will give you spooky
Villago Delenda Est
A clutch purse! Yes indeedy!
@d58826:
Rubio is a useful tool, because he says he advocates all this shit, then he votes against it all.
Of course, the inherent stupidity of such an approach is lost on the 27%, who only know that Rubio might have a funny name, but he’s no ni*CLANG*.
burnspbesq
@Amir Khalid:
Zero, fortunately. Massdrop circulated its in-house demo unit to some of the cognoscenti to evaluate, and one of them diverted it to me for a couple of days.
It lists for USD 1,799. I wouldn’t trade it for my USD 350 Resonessence Herus.
raven
@schrodinger’s cat: That’s not spooky, this is Spooky
Villago Delenda Est
@burnspbesq: I was thinking the Segway, which was hyped as the greatest thing every, utterly foolproof….then the deserting coward destroyed that assertion.
pete
So, looking at the picture, Rick Scott is now doing door-to-door campaigning? Nice costume!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Watching Stewart try to talk to the dried bean inside O’Reilly’s marble skull
Calouste
@Villago Delenda Est: The owner of the Segway brand (not the original inventor) died while using one. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Heselden
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
Everyone knows that it’s impossible to make things foolproof because they just keep making worse fools. Bush the Younger is just the latest evidence.
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: LOL. That’s good.
Re Ebola care: NYC HHC (Health and Hospitals Corp) and the Department of Education have released the rules for handling a sick child. They are available at the City’s web site. NYC seems determined to make sure that any cases are properly handled from the beginning. Yeah, our taxes are high but we believe in public services. (Well, maybe not all the time, but most of the time we do.)
Bob In Portland
Ukraine has a new holiday: “The Day of the Defender of the Fatherland.”
Corner Stone
@Calouste: It’s things like this that make me sad that Republicans have killed irony dead. Because this is some flavor of irony at a cosmic level.
Can you imagine being worth 340M pounds and dying from a segway accident?
smedley the uncertain
Decades ago we caught a baby alligator in the Flint River, Ga.
named him George Corson Wallace. When he lived up to his name, he was transported to a nice rest home (zoo) in Ca. Liberal land did not help his demeanor.
Villago Delenda Est
@Bob In Portland: How rude of them not to call it “The Rodina”.
RobertDSC (Quad Intel Mac)
@Amir Khalid:
I had Firefox crash on me immediately after reading your comment. I’m posting this from Safari.
Weird.
I’m debating whether to pull the trigger on a G4 Powerbook or save for a MacBook. I can deal with either and now that I’m versed in Intel Mac ways, I’m trying to decide if I still want a PPC machine in my stable.
Gin & Tonic
@Bob In Portland: Wonder how your buddy Putin’s doing with Brent at 84.15 and WTI at 81.38, both still trending down. This is a great graph, too.
replicnt6
@raven:
No, no, no, my friend. This is spooky:
http://vimeo.com/97259197
big ole hound
Your FIL solution would work for Scott. Trash into the swamp is perfect.
srv
@burnspbesq: HA-01 is cheaper.
Probably not “broken in”
Mnemosyne
@Bob In Portland:
So the problem is that Ukraine is continuing to celebrate a Russian holiday? Or did they change the date, which naturally makes them HORRIBLE NAZI MONSTERS!!1!
Thor Heyerdahl
@Bob In Portland: Hodor!!!
Bobby B.
In came the doctor, in came the nurse, in came the lady with the alligator purse.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mnemosyne: Did you know that the French are fascists, too? They call France “La Patrie”, you know. Nazis! All the way back to 1789, for the love of Fleu de Lis!
Villago Delenda Est
@Bobby B.: Rita Skeeter?
JCJ
@Amir Khalid:
I remember that skit with the guy in the bear suit asking for cookies. My brother loved that. It was his favorite part of the show.
John M. Burt
Calling for MoveOn in Colorado. So far, have not completed a single call: wrong numbers, answering machines, a whole lot of folks who hang up as soon as I say “MoveOn”.
I used to do this job professionally. I feel a bit out of practice, but if I ever get to talk with someone, ought to do all right.
gene108
I worked from home in the morning, as I was trying to get a proposal done and I could do it faster, without distractions.
On a break/lark, I answered the phone, when an unrecognized number called. It was a telemarketer.
What is strange about this call is that after I told him I was not interested (admittedly, I was very brisk), he proceeds to call me back 4-5 times in quick succession, after which I answer again and tell him I’ll report him for harassment, if he calls me again and hang up.
I’ve done telemarketing jobs before. What I learned is it is better for someone, who is genuinely not interested to hang quickly than listen to you and then hang up. Your time isn’t wasted and you can make the other 299 calls on your 7 hr 59 minute shift (8 hours would naturally qualify for benefits, in the olden days, so 7 plus hour it was).
pamelabrown53
Hey @Betty Cracker: your anecdote is hilarious and reminds me of one of my own. Some years back, my mother was visiting me here in NE Florida and she discovered a snake (max. = 2′) in the spa/pool enclosure. I freaked ; I’m snake phobic. Anyway, I called the sheriffs dept. to help (hell, they were probably happy for something to do) and they came! Fortunately, my brave mother had opened the screen doors and when they got here, the snake had made his escape.
P.S. Would like to move to Santa Fe, NM but am afraid of the rattle snakes.
burnspbesq
@srv:
Don’t have any use for the Oppo. I already have a Lynx Hilo, which does everything the Oppo does, but better, and also has a reference-quality analog-to-digital converter for ripping vinyl and location recording. But thanks for the suggestion.
Trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
I remember that: “No cookies!”
Lord, I must be old. BTW, will never forgive Andy Williams for unleashing the Osmond Brothers on an undeserving nation (and world, apparently).
kindness
Needz moar Land Shark.
Trollhattan
@pamelabrown53:
Hmm, rattlers or pythons the size of sewer piping? What to do, what to do….
Honestly, I suspect Santa Fe is high enough in altitude that the snake population is not that dire. Down in Abq they’re probably a lot more common. My problem would not be reptophobia but rather, the inability to afford an $11.2mil Santa Fe ranchette. I do not have Mittens Money.Regardless, the food is freaking to die for, even for mere tourists.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@gene108: In the last eight years or so, I have never had a legitimate telemarketer call. Lots of charity scams, lots of Rachel from Card Services, lots of FBI Break-in Reports, lots of Medicare scams, not one real telemarketer. So I take great delight in wasting as much of their time as I can.
The last time I spoke to a Real Person, it was the topical pain cream snake oil. I kept the guy on the line for almost nine minutes despite telling him from the get go that I knew he was peddling snake oil. He claimed not to know what that meant. I spent the rest of the call critiquing his pitch. I finally realized that I had slipped into my “buttah won’t melt in mah mouth” accent and stopped before I went full-bore Southern Belle.
@pamelabrown53: My sister-in-law had to call her local sheriff’s office when a largish snapping turtle showed up in her flower bed. We got a play-by-play of the deputies’ attempts to get bitten; apparently, animal control training is not included in their jurisdiction.
Furshlugginer thing had a leash. No idea whose pet it was.
Linnaeus
“Green Grove is a retirement community!”
geg6
Sorry to bash your state again, Betty, but this is just another reason I hope to never step foot into it ever again. My sister, who lived in FL for 12 years back in the ’80s and early ’90s, once had a house on one of the canals (can’t remember if she was living in Jensen Beach or Stuart at the time). I had gone down for a two or three-week visit and, prior to heading off to the beach one morning, was walking to the back of her house, where the canal was, to get the beach blanket off the clothesline where I hung it up every day after returning from the beach. I wasn’t paying much attention and was within about 3 or 4 feet of the clothesline when I noticed the big log sitting just under the beach blanket. Only it wasn’t a log. I stopped in my tracks, hesitated for about a full minute until it made a move like it was going to come up and check me out as a possibility for lunch and ran as fast as I could back into the house. Where I stayed for the rest of the day. And the next. When I finally resumed my beach going, the beach blanket ended up rolled up in a very sandy ball on her laundry room floor every evening. Alligators. Fuck that shit.
And don’t even get me started on the cockroaches.
cmorenc
@John M. Burt:
There’s a lot of people who will quickly hang up ASAP on ANYONE who’s not a recognized friend or relative, or established bona fide ongoing business relationship (e.g. auto repair shop calling to tell you what the diagnosis/cost of your car’s problem is). And that’s assuming you somehow inadvertently slip through their answering machine call screening.
No doubt some hung up on you due to their RW knee-jerk reaction to “Move On”, but I’ll bet quite a few hung up out of generic irritation at making the mistake of picking up the phone at all for someone outside their established set of pre-welcomed callers. Just being at least somewhat inclined toward the same political leaning as you does NOT necessarily put you in their set of “pre-welcomed callers”. I’ll reliably vote for and contribute to democratic party candidates, but I won’t willingly pick up the phone to give the time of day to political callers, even from our own side.
Omnes Omnibus
@cmorenc: I don’t answer my phone unless I recognize the number. Anyone else can leave a message.
Trollhattan
@geg6: Hilarious. As a guy-person I’d probably be lured into a “Hey y’all, watch this!” moment under those circumstances. Your way is better.
Trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
I simply don’t believe that phone solicitation is viable in the digital age, at least for anybody under 70. I ONLY pick up the phone for callers I know and even when I do, at home the f$#king thing rolls to voice mail after two rings so I generally can’t get to it in time anyway.
Robocalling and direct solicitation by phone is a dead end, and I don’t trust phone polling results because of this, even when it’s not Rasmusson.
pamelabrown53
@Trollhattan:
Well, even a 1.2 mil. “ranchette” is total fantasy. But you’re right, real estate prices in Santa Fe are stratospheric. Hopefully, even the rattle snakes can’t afford the real estate. I own my house outright, minutes from the Atlantic Ocean and I’d have to downsize for equivalent quality. Still, I love Santa Fe, partially because it’s within driving distance to my grandbabies in El Paso…just don’t want to move back to El Paso.
Agree that the food is divine.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus:
Some large percentage of the time I don’t answer it even then.
Corner Stone
@pamelabrown53:
El Paso has gotten a lot worse over the last several years.
Botsplainer
@Corner Stone:
I answer kids and wife. If its mom or a friend, I’ll listen to half a message, then get around to calling them back. Everybody else is pretty much ignored because my message is clear about business calls.
rickles
I think I would have emptied that trash can at the community services office. Hilarity ensues! As a native Floridian I have to tell you 3-foot gators can do some damage.
geg6
@Trollhattan:
My BIL wanted to know why I ran. I told him because I’m not a 6’3″ meat puppet of a white male with a complete lack of common sense. He thought it was so cool. He lived in FL all those years and never saw a gator. IMHO, that gator was just trying to tell me that I don’t belong below the Mason-Dixon Line and I’ve decided to follow it’s advice. I’ve only been back below it three times since, only one of those times in FL.
ranchandsyrup
5 different relatives and friends emailed me the video of shep smith talking sanely about ebola as if this validates fox news 4 eva and they didn’t go back to scaremongering immediately.
pamelabrown53
@Corner Stone:
Say more, please. I have my own reasons for not wanting to return to El Paso but I’m interested in your reasons.
srv
Snowmania has gone too far. What’s a wingularity in dudebro?
Trollhattan
@ranchandsyrup: Shep is Fox’s lone, blind, nut-discovering news squirrel, not some kind of harbinger of network competence.
How he’s kept his job is a thing I occasionally ponder.
Corner Stone
@pamelabrown53: One of my best friends lives with his family in El Paso but travels across to Juarez for business. At times I have literally been afraid he was dead or kidnapped when I couldn’t reach him for a day or so. He’s been at the mall before when rival gangs decided to have a running gun battle through the square. The gangs then later went to the hospital to finish the job on some who survived.
It’s just a mess of deep tranches of poverty, drug fueled violence and Security State authority omnipresent.
He and his family live in a relatively nice “suburb” out away from most of the problem spots, but actual violence is a possibility pretty much at any time.
I’m actually a fan of the geography and landscape of that area, but I would never choose to live there or take my child there.
Corner Stone
@srv: Ah, that James Comey. Swell guy.
Betty Cracker
@rickles: I wouldn’t want to mess with a three-foot gator. I give them all a wide berth — unless they’re on my plate in tasty fried nuggets, that is.
Corner Stone
This oughta be interesting:
Airbnb Listings Mostly Illegal, New York State Contends
“The report will say nearly three-quarters of all Airbnb rentals in the city are illegal, violating zoning or other laws. Commercial operators, not hard-luck residents, supply more than a third of the units and generate more than a third of the revenue. At least a handful of landlords are running what amount to illegal hostels.”
jeffreyw
Bah! My coffee roaster died and my haying guy called to say he wasn’t up to it any more, so I’ll have to find someone else or bush hog those acres.
StringOnAStick
I count myself amongst those who do not answer a number I don’t recognize (meaning my phone doesn’t have it on file) – talk to the machine, and then I’ll think about calling you back. The college alumni organizations have been doing triple time lately.
I got an out of the blue call from an old high school friend 2 weeks ago that I haven’t gotten around to calling back yet. The last time she wanted to get together it had to be at some shit-kicker bar so her husband could force me to eat Rocky Mt Oysters while drunk. I don’t drink (much), never at bars, and in redneck-ville 60 miles from home isn’t at all appealing, plus my husband is an introvert so this stuff is miserable for him. That he’s currently dealing with the stress of his brother having cancer and about to lose his job by running out of FMLA time just makes it that much less likely that he’d enjoy such an event. On top of the fact that his brother takes care of their semi-senile dad, and we’re feeling guilty about going on an international trip we booked and paid for long before any of this hit the fan, so yeah, party-hardy all the way is not how we currently roll, if ever. I will call her back, but I won’t be getting badgered into doing something that really doesn’t interest me. Go for a hike? Sure. Go get drunk in a bar and watch boxing (that was part of the last time she called)? Ah, no.
Trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
A vacationing friend in SoCal considered this Airbnb opportunity but passed on it, so I’m afraid I have no fun stories to relate.
ranchandsyrup
@Trollhattan: Me too, TH. Me too.
Corner Stone
@Trollhattan: Is Francis masturbating to a snuff film or pooping? It’s difficult to discern, but he looks like the kinda guy that would have cut up human bodies stored in trash bags in the chest freezer in the garage.
So I’m going with pr0n.
danielx
@srv:
Say what? Does it never occur to Comey that maybe, just maybe, people feel like the post-9/11 pendulum has swung too far in the direction of even local branches of government feeling that it’s okay to look up your ass on the basis of some asshole cop’s faulty intuition?
Richard Pryor: “do you have dreams? we want them too!”
Woodrowfan
@Amir Khalid: COOKIE BEAR! I LOVED COOKIE BEAR!!!
Tree With Water
One of the funniest videos that I’ve ever seen was taken at an alligator farm. A news guy and cameraman were being shown the sights by the farmer, when a gator no more than a couple of feet long clamped down on the reporters hip wader thick boots and began trying to tug him backwards into the water. The farmer leaned over and “whap, whap, whapped” the gator on the nose with a big stick he carried. Had he hit a dog or cat that hard he would have killed them. The gator finally, grudgingly let go and slowly backed off, but came back again within a minute and the same scene played out again. That gator possessed a genuine “can do” attitude.
ranchandsyrup
The sad parents of gamergate
Eric U.
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: my kids think I’m cruel to telemarketers, but none of them are legit, and some of the companies that call do so many times a week. So they get what they get. My favorite was at work, “may I speak to the person that buys electricity for your company?” “I am looking out my window at our electric power plant.” — stunned silence on the other end of the line. I actually can see our electric power plant out my window. I’m not sure what the scam is for electric power, that one comes up a lot.
burnspbesq
@srv:
Comey has to say that. Would you expect the Director of the FBI to say something different? Neither you nor I are under any obligation to agree.
Corner Stone
@burnspbesq:
The director of the F’ng FBI does not have to say that. He can suggest that more streamlined methods are preferred but he absolutely does not have to say we’re going to cram this on top of you, one way or the other.
geg6
@Corner Stone:
Between this and the stuff coming out about Lyft and Uber drivers kidnapping women passengers, I’m beginning to wonder why anyone in their right mind would want to patronize these so-called “services” that seem to be completely unregulated. And then I remember that libertarians still roam the earth.
Roger Moore
@danielx:
Or maybe people want their phone encrypted because they’re worried about the much more realistic threat of their phone being stolen with massive quantities of personal information on it. It says a lot about the guy that he’s more worried about being able to read people’s mail than he is about protecting them from criminals.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: I think the resounding success of Clipper would have taught a lesson.
mdblanche
@Trollhattan: I made the mistake of answering a poll over the phone a few months back. It seemed like a civic minded and harmless enough thing to do, but now I must be on every pollster’s list of people who might just be willing to talk to them still. I have a pollster calling now almost every day, sometimes twice. I’m no longer willing to talk to them, but that hasn’t sunk in yet. I feel like one of the last codfish on Georges Bank and I have a newly developed skepticism of polling results.
Arclite
Why is there a picture of Rick Scott in this post?
Corner Stone
I’m so old I remember when shopping on eBay actually had some good deals.
burnspbesq
@ranchandsyrup:
I’m not buying that gamer gate is about reviewer integrity. There’s a whole big set of inter tubes out there just waiting to be used if these gamers think reviewers are over-hyping games (reviewers over-hyping new products is an issue in pretty much every hobby I’m familiar with). From where I sit, that looks like a pretext for a bunch of losers to get their misogyny on.
burnspbesq
@Corner Stone:
Don’t know what you’re worrying about. If Comey actually comes up with a legislative proposal that you don’t like, all you have to do is say “Obama wants this” and it will be DOA in the House.
Botsplainer
@Corner Stone:
Whenever you’re tempted to think about using airbnb, think about the bedbugs you’re more likely than not to bring home as uninvited guests.
In another intriguing bit of news, a healthcare facility local to me apparently has a new patient who reported to the ER with a recent Liberian travel hx, and a suspect set of symptoms. Yay!!!
Corner Stone
I think the true answer to resolve this whole Ebola crisis is to mandate chip insertions. They could continuously track temps and how many times someone goes to the bathroom.
Someone get Clapper or Alexander on this, stat!
AxelFoley
@Bob In Portland: Sto’vo’kor!
Corner Stone
@burnspbesq: I’m not worried about anything. President Obama hired this former Bush Asst AG, so he must be rock solid on civil rights and the rule of law, amirite?
Your statement was ridiculous. The director of the FBI has a job to do, and his statements were not a reference on his platform. They were BS.
Corner Stone
@Botsplainer: I never think about using airbnb. I’m quite skeeved out by people who think this is the future.
Why not just show up in a new city, kick in the door and duct tape the occupants to kitchen chairs for the duration of your stay?
Corner Stone
I love this Dr. William Schaffner on MSNBC. He made the VERY clear point that the care facilities that have beds for ebola patients were well funded by the govt. And their staff was paid to attend training on a regular basis.
FUNDING you fucking fucks.
NonyNony
@burnspbesq:
What’s worse is that when you drill down to their objections, they come down to a belief that the giant releases from big companies aren’t being hyped enough because game reviewers are positively reviewing small indie games instead. Because of favors being granted to them by small indie game developers.
It is the weirdest-assed conspiracy theory I have run across in a long time. So weird that I don’t believe that they actually believe it. I’m willing to give 9/11 truthers the benefit of the doubt that they actually believe that we’ve all been lied to about how buildings collapse, and I’m wiling to give anti-vaxxers the benefit of the doubt that they actually believe that we’ve all been duped about vaccinations. But I’m not actually willing to believe that these guys actually believe that indie games are getting too much good press because of graft. They’re just assholes who will grab whatever excuse they need to justify being an asshole.
skerry
@srv: Reminds me of the Clipper Chip battles in the 1990s. (Link goes to Wikipedia because I am too lazy to find a better one.) Helped start EFF among other like-minded orgs.
Botsplainer
@Corner Stone:
Wait till the first time an airbnb customer (or one of their children) dies due to something unsafe in the rented space (fire/smoke inhalation, electrocution, collapse, falling objects, unsecured firearms).
It’ll be awesome to watch the spinning.
Villago Delenda Est
@srv:
Geeze, I wonder why you’re not trusted, Gestapo asswipe?
Villago Delenda Est
@NonyNony: Gamergate is about sexist little shits being pissed that they’re being called out as sexist little shits.
Absolutely on target.
As they say in the Field Artillery, you man now fire for effect.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: But if we fund this, it might endanger tax cuts for the already obscenely wealthy and greedy!
Villago Delenda Est
@AxelFoley: Gospodin Romanov is doomed to ride the barge to Grethor.
Trollhattan
@AxelFoley:
Russian for “HODOR!” I presume?
Villago Delenda Est
@Arclite:
We’re trying to frighten small children and animals.
ET
My first thought on seeing this photo is the old SNL Land Shark skit…….
gluon1
@Betty Cracker: Without anyways disparaging your gator, that image should never be used without giving credit to the original it’s ripping off, and also a character I think is right up your alley, the great and inimitable Jenny Lawson, a.k.a. The Bloggess, q.v., http://thebloggess.com/2011/06/and-thats-why-you-should-learn-to-pick-your-battles/
She will make you laugh aloud. Guaranteed.
raven
@ET: Fins
Roger Moore
@NonyNony:
It’s classic zero sum thinking. Any attention that’s going to small indie games is attention that isn’t going to the big, commercial games that target GamerGaters. It’s exactly the same logic that sees civil rights as an evil attempt to give stuff to minorities at the expense of whites and feminism as an attempt to give stuff to women at the expense of men.
Botsplainer
@Trollhattan:
Why does the guy in that photo look like he’s rubbing one out?
ranchandsyrup
@burnspbesq: agreed burnsie
Shana
@gluon1: I can’t believe it took this long in the thread for someone to say that. You may be the person who, a few years ago, mentioned this as their nominee for the best blog post of the year. If so, I am forever in your debt. That was one of the funniest things I have ever read and I’ve forwarded it to numerous people. Bless you, or whoever it was, for that.
Betty Cracker
@gluon1: Oh my god, that is freaking high-larious! I never knew where that meme came from. Now I cherish it even more!
cckids
@replicnt6: That is the creepiest 60 seconds I’ll spend this month. Holy shit.
Tehanu
If I looked out my glass-paned door and saw that beast … well, I’d still be running and screaming. Heck, I can barely cope with cockroaches and crickets.