Store Spuds Peed on (Pittsburgh) – Bigfoot Shot at (Kentucky) – Falling in a Dream

https://pittsburgh.cbslocal.com/2019/07/30/west-mifflin-walmart-woman-urinates-potatoes/

KDKA-TV [Pittsburgh]

30 July 2019       

Police Chief: Woman Accused Of Urinating On Potatoes In Walmart Facing Charges After Turning Herself In

WEST MIFFLIN (KDKA) — West Mifflin Police say the woman accused in a bizarre and disgusting act at the borough’s Walmart has turned herself in. […] According to police, the woman is accused of urinating on a bin of potatoes after entering the store. She left soon after. Police identified that woman as Grace Brown. She is now being charged with criminal mischief, open lewdness, disorderly conduct and public drunkenness. She is awaiting a preliminary hearing. […]

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https://edition.cnn.com/2019/07/31/us/alleged-bigfoot-sighting-kentucky-national-park/index.html

CNN

1 August 2019

Man fires a gun in a Kentucky national park after he claims he saw Bigfoot, couple says

(CNN) A couple camping at a national park in Kentucky said they were rousted from their tent by a man who told them he had seen a Bigfoot. The man said he fired into the darkness after the ape-like monster that has never been proven to exist lunged at him, the couple told CNN on Wednesday. […] Federal regulations prohibit the discharge of a firearm in the national park, she said. Park officials know the identity of the person who allegedly fired a weapon; no charges have been filed. […]

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https://www.gocomics.com/poochcafe/2019/07/30

Paul Gilligan, Pooch Café, 30 July 2019, first of three panels. “They say if you’re falling in a dream, you have to wake up before you land or you’ll die.”

Bigfoot Calling Contest – Bird Calls at Golf Tournament – Aunt Flo, Get Off That Ladder!

http://www.espn.com/espn/story/_/id/26479629/inside-world-premier-sasquatch-calling-contest-yes-thing

ESPN

10 April 2019

Inside the world's premier Sasquatch calling contest (yes, that's a thing)

[…] When you go hunting for Big Foot in Whitehall [NY], though, you end up discovering far more about human nature than you do about the creature. At times, the phenomena here feel like an emotional pyramid scheme, with the way each new sighting validates all of the past encounters while bonding the townsfolk together and giving them something to talk, gossip and complain about, like the weather. […]

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https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/masters-cbs-coverage-birds-real-fake.html

Slate

12 April 2019

Is CBS Piping Fake Birds Into Its Masters Coverage?

To watch the Masters on television is to be transported to the natural, exclusive splendor of Augusta National Golf Club. […] Listen closely and you’ll notice that there seem to be a lot of birds at Augusta National—perhaps even a suspicious amount. Could it be that CBS is piping in chirps? This is not a new conspiracy theory. In 2001, the network copped to using recorded bird sounds at the 2000 PGA Championship while insisting that the birds heard at the Masters “are live and … indigenous to Augusta.” But, given the relentless cacophony at this year’s tournament, could it be possible that something foul is afoot? […]

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Liv Strömquist, Fruit of Knowledge: The Vulva vs. the Patriarchy, trans. Melissa Bowers (Seattle: Fantagraphics Books, 2018), 105. Originally published in Sweden in 2014. “Some say the superstition about walking under ladders originated from a fear of menstruation – people were afraid a woman with inadequate sanitary protection might be lurking up there and leak on their heads.” Strömquist’s source for this fanciful explanation is Janice Delaney, Mary Jane Lupton, and Emily Toth, The Curse: A Cultural History of Menstruation (Urbana, IL: Illini Books, 1988 [1976]), p. 9. “And most of us still consider it unlucky to walk under ladders, a superstition derived from the primitive world, where people would not pass under bridges, clotheslines, trees, or the like if a menstruating woman was about, lest some of the blood or its mana fall on their heads.”