John Colton's blog

Signs of the Apocalypse? You be the judge:

1. This one left me speechless.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060828/ap_on_fe_st/bad_dog_driver

A woman in Hohhot, the capital of north China's Inner Mongolia region, crashed her car while giving her dog a driving lesson, the official Xinhua News Agency said Monday...She thought she would let the dog 'have a try' while she operated the accelerator and brake.

2. Wasn't this one of Aesop's fables?
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060830/od_nm/australia_pigeon_dc

Four people ended up in the hospital and another four were injured after feathers flew in a dispute over a racing pigeon Wednesday, Australian police said...The Herald Sun newspaper reported that the bird at the center of the dispute flew away during the fight.

3. McDonalds showing a heart for hedgehogs.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060901/ap_on_sc/britain_mcdonald_s_hedgehogs

McDonald's Corp. said Friday it had redesigned the cups for its McFlurry dessert so that they no longer posed a danger to the spiky woodland creatures. The British Hedgehog Preservation Society has campaigned for years against the containers, saying hedgehogs had died while trying to eat leftover ice cream from discarded cups. Campaigners said the opening in the lid was large enough for hedgehogs to stick their heads in, but not to get them out again... McDonald's U.K. said that after "significant research and testing," it designed a McFlurry cup with a smaller opening.