Feelgood News... April 09

[Bungleau]

W.Va. retiree, 70, aces consecutive holes

CHARLESTON, W.Va. – A Boone County golfer has two reasons to celebrate a hole-in-one at Charleston's Coonskin Park. Retiree Carl Smith, 70, aced consecutive holes on the executive par 3 course Tuesday. Starting his round on the back nine, Smith used a pitching wedge to ace the 70-yard 18th hole. He said it never entered his mind to try for another.

After a short snack break, Smith used a sand wedge on the 100-yard first hole and saw his tee shot bounce twice before disappearing into the cup. His friend, Bob Roy, witnessed the feats.

Smith took up golf after retiring in 1999 and finding a full set of clubs at a discount store for $4.95. His first hole-in-one came three years ago.

Smith was busy with other matters Wednesday — he's in a weekly bowling league.
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Information from: Charleston Daily Mail, http://www.dailymail.com
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Dang... he's got more holes in one than me, with $5 clubs... I can only hope to live so long and be so lucky...

[Bungleau]

Dog overboard found four months later

SYDNEY (AFP) – A pet dog that fell overboard in rough seas off Australia has been reunited with its owners after surviving alone on an island for four months, reports said.

Sophie Tucker, apparently named after a late US entertainer, fell overboard as Jan Griffith and her family sailed through choppy waters off the northeast Queensland coast in November.

The dog was believed to have drowned and Griffith said the family was devastated.

But out of sight of the family, Sophie Tucker was swimming doggedly and finally made it to St Bees Island, five nautical miles away, and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

She was returned to her family last week when Griffith contacted rangers who had captured a dog that had been living off feral goats on the largely uninhabited island, in the faint hope it might be their long-lost pet.

When the Griffiths met the rangers' boat bringing the dog to the mainland they found that it was indeed Sophie Tucker on board.

"We called the dog and she started whimpering and banging the cage and they let her out and she just about flattened us," Griffith told the national AAP news agency.

"She wriggled around like a mad thing."

Griffith said that when the dog was first spotted on the island she had been in poor condition.

"And then all of a sudden she started to look good and it was when the rangers had found baby goat carcasses so she'd started eating baby goats," she said.

Sophie Tucker, a member of the Australian cattle dog breed, had been quick to readjust to the comforts of home, complete with airconditioning, Griffiths said.

"She surprised us all. She was a house dog and look what she's done, she's swum over five nautical miles, she's managed to live off the land all on her own," Griffiths said.

"We wish she could talk, we truly do."
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*sniff* I loves happy endings, I does...

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

and began the sort of life popularised by the TV reality show "Survivor."

..must have found the immunity idol!

[wellard]

Can't beat a good shaggy dog story. Nice stuff Bung

[Bungleau]

Man bites python

NAIROBI (Reuters) – A Kenyan man bit a python who wrapped him in its coils and hauled him up a tree in a struggle that lasted hours, local media said Wednesday.

Farm manager Ben Nyaumbe was working at the weekend when the serpent, apparently hunting for livestock, struck in the Malindi area of Kenya's Indian Ocean coast.

"I stepped on a spongy thing on the ground and suddenly my leg was entangled with the body of a huge python," he told the Daily Nation newspaper.

When the snake coiled itself round his upper body, Nyaumbe resorted to desperate measures: "I had to bite it."

The python dragged him up a tree, but when it eased its grip, Nyaumbe said he was able to take a mobile phone out of his pocket and phone for help.

When his supervisor came with a policeman, Nyaumbe smothered the snake's head with his shirt, while the rescuers tied it with a rope and pulled.

"We both came down, landing with a thud," said Nyaumbe, who survived with damaged lips and bruising.

The snake escaped from the three sacks it was bundled into.

(Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Jack Kimball)
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Not your typical feelgood, but I like...

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

"was working at the weekend.."

??

I think Jack needs some grammar lessons..

A good story though. It was high time for a feel good story.

[VulcanRider]

Originally Posted by Variol (Farseer) Elmwood I think Jack some grammar lessons..

???
You mean Jack NEEDS some grammar lessons?

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

That's what I get for trying to type at 7am,

[Wolf Rider2]

For some reason I feel sorry for the snake. Is that evil???

[Variol (Farseer) Elmwood]

Originally Posted by Wolf Rider2 For some reason I feel sorry for the snake. Is that evil???

I hope not: I did too!