Cucumber news 2

Today's paper is chock full of cucumber news. The front page story, with a picture covering over half the full front page and a two page spread inside the paper, is about a woman who plucks several hundred brown snails a day from her garden and reckons she has plucked sixty thousand snails over the past few years. (These snails are a recent import with no natural predators, like rabbits in Australia, and they are all over the place, much to the dismay of avid gardeners.)

The caption: GRAVEYARD. Ingunn Walde can't be stopped: many snails await sure death in her bucket of piping-hot water!

And, no, I didn't add the exclamation point. They did.



The next story is about a dog named Zico. The headline says he has his heart outside his fur; I saw this and expected to see a dog who had survived a birth defect (not uncommon in some multiple-birth pregnancies) where the organs grow in a sac outside the body and have to be surgically implanted after birth. That would have been an interesting story. But no, see if you can find Zico's "heart" on this picture.



And that, people, is cucumber news.