MUIRHEAD`S MYSTERIES: A PUZZLED PYTHON IN A PNEUMATIC PIPE

Here is a story of a very unfortunate python which found its way into a pneumatic pipe, from the wired.com archive, dated May 1994.

Back to the Future by Michael Wofsey

“About fifteen years ago , Don Ives was in the basement of a hospital, working on the building`s pneumatic tube system – a pipe that uses compressed air to propel cargo-laden cylinders- when he heard screaming. “ I heard this ungodly screech; I thought my partner had hurt himself,” he recalled . Instead, his buddy stood in front of an open pneumatic tube, mesmerized by a 9-foot-long python that had escaped from one of the labs above. The animal had found the tube system to be a perfect way to high-tail it out of the medical complex. (1)

So now you know…

http://www.wired.com/archive/2.05/tubes.html accessed June 24th 2012

I am bringing an end to my occasional song lyrics selection with a favourite of mine `Broken Hearts (Thirteen Valleys) by Big Country. I am going to follow in my next 3 blogs with 3 short Fortean Zoology type poems, then move on to dreams. As in nocturnal dreams, not dreams as in aspirations.

BIG COUNTRY BROKEN HEARTS

Thirteen valleys he has wandered all alone
For he thinks he is the one that she dreams of
But her bed was made as well
From the day that she got there
Now she wanders thirteen valleys crying out,
Now she wonders thirteen valleys crying out

“It could`ve been me, I said it could`ve been me,
A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on
A broken heart needs someone new to blame it on

Thirteen valleys she has gone through since morning came,
For she gave so much that only love remains
But her lover now is gone
With the money she sent home
Now she wonders thirteen valleys crying out
Now she wonders thirteen valleys crying out