We agreed that browsing local news headlines occasionally reveals an instance of the awesomely bizarre in la vie quotidian (e.g. the whole Caboodle Ranch thing in Florida that Colbert picked up on or something like this) and also makes big news of the trivial in sort of a quaint, Norman Rockwell's America kinda way (e.g. "71st Annual Vermontville Syrup Festival may attract 30,000 visitors to village.")
My enjoyment may have begun following my infamous cougar sighting of 2005 when I went through a scour-the-local-news-for-fellow-sightings-to-back-me-up and Gen, being from a small town in Kansas, had some experience early on with the hilarity of mundane local news stories (and the awful) but of course, now that we're together, we like to think of it as more of a high brow informal ethnographic study (Duh). Regardless, I'll never forget reading the Ithaca Journal one summer at my parents and seeing the front page report about a rabid beaver's attack in Danby, NY (although, it wasn't this exciting) alongside a story about what local inmates are eating for breakfast.
Any how, all this to introduce today's gem in the Post (even if itpertains to a metropolitan area) - "Large snake causes power outage"
This is a snake we actually saw and photographed while strolling through Rock Creek Park by Cleveland Heights... it was GINORMOUS
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