It has been a quiet spring so far for the Summer of Fear campaign. I don’t know if the reporters are distracted with all this election stuff or if Mother Nature is just producing less panic worthy animals this year. Nature and the reporters better pick it up, we only have another month or so [...]
My new catch phrase: More fun than a Chinese Zoo!
Jaguar photographed in the US. They are coming for us.
Actually this is really cool and not summer of feary at all, just thought it was neat.
After killing Steve Irwin in 2006 the Stingray apparently liked its moment in the killer animal spotlight and struck today killing a woman in Florida. Apparently it didn’t use its stinger, it just knocked the woman over and she hit her head on the boat. The woman’s death is an unfortunate tragedy, but I have [...]
Last year’s winner, the squirrel, isn’t slacking in 2008. They are now engaged in a crazed attempt to redeem their public image in an effort to make them seem harmless. Only the nightmarish horror of squirrel tributes to Benazir Bhutto and other images from beyond mortal ken make it plain that that this is no [...]
Two good Summer of Fear articles today, the first is on the Ten Most Painful Bites with bites that range from to
Pure, intense, brilliant pain. Like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch rusty nail in your heel.
to the more subtle
You’ll be screaming and writhing in agony. & It feels like every gland in [...]
Ok, Shark kills man, that is bad and I am sorry for the man, but then you read it was a tour company that puts divers in the water with no cages and chums for hammerheads and you start to think this is well past the pushing your luck line.
Abernethy’s website advertises shark-diving excursions to [...]
Hungry bears are threatening to eat all of eastern Europe. Its another Summer of Fear contender!
Yet another aquatic contender for 2008’s Summer of Fear campaign, the Snakehead. No fear mongering in this story just a straight up relay of the facts, like
snakeheads eat everything they see and can even kill humans
. No sensationalism here. Funny, the wikipedia article on Snakeheads and the fan site for them at Snakeheads.org don’t [...]
The Aussies give us the second big contender for Summer of Fear 2008. This previous champion serves to show that some people’s theories:
I think that the best Summer of Fear Candidate for Average Working Americans will walk the land and thus be able to attack us in grocery store parking lots and such.
are perhaps not [...]