The Return of Strange Things You've Seen Lately

[John DiFool]

I was behind a little Chevy 4 door at a light today-when it got in motion, ALL FOUR TIRES were seen to be wobbling excessively. Whoever did her realignment needs to be sued, I thought, until I saw the big dent in her front fender (that wouldn't cause all 4 wheels to askew tho would it?).

[Beerman1963]

They should probably make sure all the lug nuts are secure.

[Askance]

Part way through my quotidian constitutional I went past an ordinary domestic driveway. Glancing casually up it I see a rabbit fair in the middle of the driveway gnawing at some clivias. I look again: a small, black rabbit, slowly bobbing around taking the occasional nip. I should state at this point that I live in the inner, very urban, suburbs of a city of 5 million people. It must be 30 or 40km to the nearest farm.

[postcards]

Part way through my quotidian constitutional I went past an ordinary domestic driveway. Glancing casually up it I see a rabbit fair in the middle of the driveway gnawing at some clivias. I look again: a small, black rabbit, slowly bobbing around taking the occasional nip. I should state at this point that I live in the inner, very urban, suburbs of a city of 5 million people. It must be 30 or 40km to the nearest farm.

Meh. We have coyotes in Manhattan (http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/25/national/main6332876.shtml).

[Machine Elf]

I was behind a little Chevy 4 door at a light today-when it got in motion, ALL FOUR TIRES were seen to be wobbling excessively. Whoever did her realignment needs to be sued, I thought, until I saw the big dent in her front fender (that wouldn't cause all 4 wheels to askew tho would it?).

If a wheel wobbles at low speed, it's bent.

If a rear wheel wobbles at high speed, it's bent and/or out of balance.

If a front wheel wobbles at high speed, it's bent and/or out of balance, and/or there may be loose joints in the steering linkage.

[Baron Greenback]

I'm looking at a burning hillside. There's just the odd lick of flame visible, but the way the smoke is rising out of the various gullies and whatnot, it looks a bit like volcanic vents. :cool:

[romansperson]

I was awakened on Sunday morning by a flock of guinea fowl in my yard. I have no idea where they came from - they were obviously the domesticated kind (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domesticated_guineafowl) and they don't fly particularly well, so they can't have come from far off but I don't know anyone nearby who currently has any. Maybe they were running away from home? They hung around for about four hours and then walked off wherever.

[barrum]

Keep in mind that this is just after Easter and the black bunny may have been an ill-advised gift set free(mainly from mom and dad having to care for it.)

[Kyla]

I saw an animal I couldn't identify on the street yesterday. It was about the size of a raccoon, but it wasn't a raccoon. It was gray all over. It was weird.

Who knows about the wildlife of SE Michigan?

[filling_pages]

Sounds like an opossum to me. Sort of looked like a giant rat? Y'all got 'possums?

[moldybread]

Yep opossum (http://retrieverman.files.wordpress.com/2009/04/virginia-opossum1.jpg)

[Swallowed My Cellphone]

Hey! Do they have opossum's in China? There was some "strange creature" that made the enws. It was captured coming out of the woods in Chna and looks like a "bald bear" but with a "kangaroo tail". The photo did look like a mangey bear with a werid tail, but I couldn't get a sense of scale from the pic. Now I'm wondering if it was a mangey 'possum.

[hotflungwok]

I saw this line in a book I'm reading, Bonk by Mary Roach:
The largest penis bone is that of the walrus. The Inuit call it an oosik and used it as a war club.

[Kyla]

No, it wasn't an opossum. I know what a possum looks like, you guys.

[Kyla]

Okay, I think it was a woodchuck.

I tried to get a video on my iPod, but it scurried past before I could the video functioning.

[Yorikke]

I saw a car with graffiti on the side. In spray paint, huge letters,

POO

Joe

[Ponch8]

Speaking of rabbits, I was at the zoo the other day and saw a bunny eating a carrot within the gorilla enclosure. I don't think I've ever seen a rabbit eating a carrot before, with the exception of Bugs Bunny.

[ducati]

Took the family to St. Croix for spring break.

The house we've rented is on a peninsula, with one road leading out there.
As we arrived home after dinner the first night, an animal ran across the road in the dark.
My first thought was "that was a mongoose", and I said so. My wife and children laughed at me, and made fun of me for 2 days until one showed up on our patio.

Later, we saw one sneaking around the bushes while playing golf. Us, not him.
I have pictures.

St. Croix has mongooses.
Scads of 'em.

[Baron Greenback]

I'm looking at a burning hillside. There's just the odd lick of flame visible, but the way the smoke is rising out of the various gullies and whatnot, it looks a bit like volcanic vents. :cool:

And in a stunning turn of events, we now have actual volcanic ash in the skies!

[Drain Bead]

This one was something my husband saw, but it was great.

There's a BBQ truck a couple of blocks away from my house on the weekends. Really good barbecue, and it makes the whole area around it smell heavenly. My husband was driving by, and noticed a woman walking her pot-bellied pig right by the truck. The pig was sniffing at the air, and had a look on his face like "Damn, I want some of whatever that guy is cooking!"