Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts
Showing posts with label biology. Show all posts

Saturday, October 4, 2008

Youth of ... Australia?

In sharp contrast to the creepy kid who declared his fondness of the shelled reptiles, a young boy in Sydney, Australia showed the world just how doomed our future really is.

This child of only seven years whose name was not released (likely name: Damien or Mikey if evil child movies are to be believed), unleashed an unspeakable horror on the Alice Springs Reptile Center and left the remains of 13 animals in his wake.

The child then went on a killing spree, bashing three lizards to death with a rock, including the zoo's beloved, 20-year-old goanna, which he then fed to "Terry," an 11-foot, 440-pound saltwater crocodile, said Neindorf.

The boy also fed several live animals to Terry by throwing them over the two fences surrounding the crocodile's enclosure, at one point climbing over the outer fence to get closer to the giant reptile.
How does a 7-year-old go unattended long enough to do this? Where were the parents? How does he have the attention span to throw animals over two fences that he subsequently must climb to feed the alligator? Are we to assume he never played Zoo Tycoon?

If it was an older child, it would still be horrific but more plausible. I sincerely hope this kid is in some kind of A Clockwork Orange-ish social reconditioning for the sake of humanity. Let's hope he never gets a hamster.

AOL: Boy, 7, Breaks Into Zoo, Kills Animals

Wednesday, June 11, 2008

When Music is Bad for You

At first glance at the headline, I thought this Scientific American article had to do with the hordes of terrible alternative rock and hip-hop songs that make you long for a seizure to escape the damaging mental effects of shitty music. As it turns out, for Stacey Gayle, music was actually causing her to have seizures. While a rare condition which would certainly make having a normal life difficult, I hope that someone afflicted with this condition, musicogenic epilepsy, would be brave enough to go to a shitty concert, have a seizure, and subsequently sue the group out of existence.

This may be a very effective way to reduce the number of terrible bands clogging the airwaves.

Scientific American: When Your Favorite Song Gives You Seizures