>This may sound like a fish story, but a sizable shad plummeted from the
>sky Wednesday morning, shattering the windshield of a pickup truck on a
>used-car lot and leaving the employees of East End Auto Sales scratching
>their heads about this fish out of water.
>
>"We started walking, and when I saw the ground, I thought it was a rock,"
>he said, gesturing toward the fish. "I guess I was over here enough that I
>could almost tell [the windshield] was caved. A fish, I didn't expect."
>
>Doub, a recreational fisherman, estimated the shad's weight at 2 pounds.
>The shad left a fish-shaped imprint, complete with fins, on the caved-in
>driver's side of the windshield, which Doub said East End Auto would replace.
I wonder how many times that happens and we don't even know about it? How
many times have you been out and wondered "What's that smell?" From a dead
shad in the bushes no doubt.
And I'll bet every one of those alien abduction stories came from someone
who got knocked out by a falling shad and didn't know what happened.
-- Jay DeLong Olympia, WA "If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering." -- Aldo Leopold (1953)
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