On this day in landfill history
Published 9:39 pm Thursday, September 30, 2010
Ooh, ooh, that smell: Twenty-five years ago today, the Great Everett Tire Fire had reduced in intensity but would continue to smolder for weeks.
Even as the tires smoldered, the air quality in downtown Everett was considered “good,” but only because the acrid smoke was masking the stench from the city sewage lagoons.
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“Abt natural, I am pointing a gub at you:” An Oregon woman was arrested after her bank robbery attempt was thwarted when the teller told her she couldn’t read her note demanding money.
Once she’s paid her debt to society, we hope the woman turns her life around, goes to college for her medical degree and makes her living writing illegible prescriptions.
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Rats! Launching a campaign to protect crops, Bangladesh awarded a 14-inch television to a 40-year-old farmer who killed 83,450 rats this year, keeping the tails as proof of his feat.
Unfortunately, had the farmer checked his S&H Rat Tail catalog, he would have noticed he needed only 16,550 more rat tails to get the 32-inch flat screen.
