Another Strange and Frightening?
‘”We were sitting there getting ready to cast our poles out in the water and then something really big jumped out of the water and tried to get on the dock but it was too big and fell right back into the water,” John Peck told CBS4.’
This is how a much publicized story began in Loveland, CO. Cages have recently been set up on the banks of Jayhawker Ponds where at least three witnesses, two of them children, are claiming to have seen a five to seven foot reptile in the waters.
Officials believe the creature to be a caiman or alligator that was most likely a pet whose owner chose to release the animal from captivity…into a public lake.
Maybe the witnesses are just crying wolf, er, alligator.
We’ll likely know soon enough; if the cages do not work for catching the creature, then plan B will be enacted. This means using an electric shock to stun everything in the water and cause the fish, etc., to float to the surface. If you’re like me, you’re attention might turn to another ’shocking’ story of recent headline worthiness in the newspaper. This other story is a sad one, a man who was confronted by officers and then shot with a Taser (a presumably safe weapon of control) only to later be pronounced dead.
That concludes this blog reporter’s account of strange and frightening.
Next week and in the future of this blog, I want to focus in on some good news in Colorado. On beautiful people doing beautiful things; and by this I mean all of us in our everyday life. You all know someone out there who is a beautiful person not just in physical terms, but because they enjoy going down to the homeless shelter, or are passionate about recycling, or they pick up trash on their walks… beautiful people doing beautiful things.
quote taken from http://cbs4denver.com/topstories/local_story_195171553.html reported by Mike Hooker
July 19th, 2007 at 8:18 pm
Perhaps it is a baby Loch Ness Monster… Then Love Land may be able to compete as a tourist attraction. lol
July 20th, 2007 at 9:05 am
http://www.coloradoan.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070720/BUSINESS/707200314
Check this out, someone made T-shirts with the Loveland Pond Monster on them to sell! Looks suspiciously like the Loch Ness Monster. . .and I was just joking in my last post!
July 20th, 2007 at 1:36 pm
Here I am at my computer… shaking my head back and forth… See me? Thinking, Laura, Laura, Laura..
Only kidding! I hope all my readers understand the humor I try to work in- this can be difficult since our only communication is through the written word!
Thanks again for another two great comments and your active participation in this blogsite Laura. And if by chance, one day our paths should ever cross wherever you are out there, and you be wearing a Loveland Pond Monster shirt, I won’t judge you.
July 20th, 2007 at 1:59 pm
Sean-you know you want one!!! LOLOLOLOL