Area 51 Uncovered?

Social media has opened many strange doors, and some are entirely creations of the current world ....

Facebook Advertised House Parties End In These Sorts Of Scenes ......

..... from the naive mistake of the teenager, who advertises a party on their Facebook page when their parents are on holiday, who is then totally shocked and surprised, when hundreds of strangers turn up, and wreck the family home.

WOW

In the seemingly futile hunt for alien intelligences somewhere in our vicinity (aka the SETI programme), perhaps the most famous moment was the brief burst of radio signal activity received on the 15th of August 1977, by Ohio State University's Big Ear radio telescope in the United States.

WOW Indeed .... If You Know What Your Looking At!

The astronomer Jerry R. Ehman discovered the signal anomaly when he was reviewing the data a few days later, and was so surprised when he saw the computer print outs, that he circled the reading on the paper and then scribbled the comment 'Wow!' next to it. This then became the short hand name for the event.

Prussian Pirhanas

You can always tell when we are approaching what the UK press call the 'Silly Season' (a term by the way, that the German Press have adopted as 'Sommerloch' literally 'silly summer'), because you get the sort of stories that just maybe wouldn't make the main news normally

Not These Sorts Of Prussian Piranhas .....

In Germany, the stories follow much the same style as those in the UK. In 1994, there was 'Sammy the Cayman', a small crocodile who escaped from its owner and made it in to a quarry in the Lower Rhine near Dormagen. he remained 'on the run' for several days, but was eventually was recovered from the lake. He was then presented to the local zoo when no one claimed him.