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This Looks Like A Job For Zamfir
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Where's a good Pied Piper when you need one? Hamelin -- yes, the actual city of the Pied Piper legend -- has once again been overrun by rats, who put a fountain out of commission by gnawing on power cables. These days, though, the solution is to just close the fountain because it was getting too expensive to run it anyway. Besides, the Pied Piper's method sucks, because rats, who he led into the river, can swim. No wonder the townspeople reneged on their deal with him. By the way, I had to look up what "Pied" meant. Now I know. It was his clothing - patchy, brightly colored. That's "pied." Not hit in the face with a pie. Although I'd have preferred that story. (AP via St. Paul Pioneer Press)
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