Mummified

Mummified bodies keep popping up in the news. Normally they would be people discovered by anthropologists and I would be very excited on the insight provided on their culture by the find. How ever, lately mummified bodies of people from our own culture are being found in their homes left and right leaving me less excited and slightly horrified. I have taken to watching my neighbors to make sure none of them just go absent for a period of time. The moment they do I will be the first person on the phone with the cops to come and investigate what my mind is telling me is the smell of decomposition. I started to think about it quite a bit with the last mummified neighbor discovered down in Texas, I'm sure we can all think of at least one person we know of that could die and go undiscovered. I can think of two right off the top of my head, two very sad friendless people who seem to enjoy a life of drunken self serving solitude. I am sure all of us know some one who needs some kind of social or mental help, or perhaps just someone who is so intolerably self righteous that they have driven off anyone that came close to being a friend. In other words someone who would die and go unnoticed until the tax man came calling. It creeps me out, who knows what house might hold the mummifying corpse of someone I used to see walking around the neighborhood. And really, since there are only two neighbors I talk to it could very easily be going on right now. We are turning in to a reclusive society brought on by random acts of violence and the inability to trust anyone. Sad. The crazy lady across the street has yet to mummify, I would notice if that whack job disappeared. I also take comfort in knowing that I am not one of those people who could mummify unnoticed in my home. We have far to many people coming over to have a absence go unnoticed, you know who you are, plus there are a couple of people at work who would physically bust down the door to slap me around if I disappeared. I have to wonder if the people who are and have lived a life unnoticed even realize it. Hmmm, like I said before it's just sad.

Another tidbit from the news a serial lingerie thief has finally been caught in Tokyo. The man has been on the loose carrying out his sick pantie thieving plans for about six years now. Six years, that's a long time to have to carry out pantie thieving, in fact if you are a master at climbing like this serial thief then you know that means you could steal 2 or 3 pair a day! That's right when they totaled all the found undies up it tallied out to 3,977 pair of panties, 355 bras, and 10 pairs of stockings. I have to admit, I'm impressed.

A new species of big cat was found. I'm thrilled, I love new species and I love big cats so this all gravy in my book. The cat is known as the Borneo Clouded Leopard, and I encourage you all to go watch the footage of it on Reuters. It is a gorgeous creature, and since it has now been found who knows how long it will have before we kill them all off.

While on Reuters I also suggest you read about the $1000.00 pizza. Yeah, I thought it sounded like a waste of money too.