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ColumnsThe people in San Francisco don’t have enough to worry about… …In the Chronicle a week ago, Thursday, Steve Rubenstein wrote about the potential threat of huge, 250-pound Burmese pythons that may be working their way west…They’re believed to be pets that escaped or were released by their former owners and now are moving through the Florida Everglades and heading west. …These giant reptiles supposedly can strangle and eat a whole alligator in one sitting… …Without ketchup or fries… …They slither about 20 miles a month and it would take a very determined Burmese python to get to San Francisco in about 2020…That is if it could crawl through the Arizona deserts or Colorado Rockies… …There are more than 335,000 specialty plates issued by the state…See them at https://servicearizona.com/webapp/vehicle/plates/start.do …The Green Valley Community Coordinating Council does a great job every year producing the directories… …In a memo last year he said he’d like to have an “Olympic” size swimming pool, but to qualify it must be 50 meters in length by 25 meters in width with a minimum depth of two meters… … “A swimming pool ‘Yes.’ Olympic size ‘No,’” he wrote… …A cat took a three-week cross country ride to Arizona in a storage container…But he was sent home safely… …Meatloaf, the cat, crawled into a locker at a Pompano Beach, Fla., house while a man loaded it for a move to Phoenix…The container was held in a Florida warehouse and on a semitrailer before arriving in Phoenix… …Back in Florida, Meatloaf’s owners put up signs around the neighborhood, but he was too far away to read them…When the locker was opened there was a hungry, thirsty cat, but otherwise unharmed…The man who moved remembered seeing the cat in his old neighborhood and made arrangements to send it back… …Then in Manhattan a cat belonging to woman on a subway train got out of its carrier and disappeared onto one of the platforms when the doors opened…The woman had just taken the cat to a vet and was taking it home… …Some strap hangers reported hearing the cat’s meows near the station, and finally two subway workers walked down the tunnel making “meow” sounds that lured the cat out… …The cat was lucky…It didn’t get mugged by a couple of subway Ratzillas… …In a compromise, the committee said no to letting students in kindergarten through grade 12 carry protection… …Which is probably a good idea…I’ve known some mean, short-tempered 5-year-olds… …The meeting will be at 10 a.m. at the Community Church, northwest corner of Esperanza and La Canada… …A number of environmental groups will send speakers to talk about such things at the proposed Copper Mine at Rosemont in the Santa Ritas, a planned housing development near the entrance to Madera Canyon and preserving the West Desert Preserve, a state land area southwest of town toward the mine… Jim Lamb’s a reporter for the Green Valley News who’s always looking for a good laugh or two to fill the above space. Call him at 547-9749.
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Matt wrote on Aug 9, 2009 11:41 PM: