Tough Call

It's really a tough call today as to what I should write about. I've run across several interesting articles, and they all struck me as something worthy of additional insight. Rather than choose just one, I'll try to hit them all and let you decide which you prefer:

• Crazy toll booth bill – Apparently, a woman was told she owed $870 when she tried to leave DFW airport after only being in the airport for eight minutes. Her bill should have been $2, but a "rare" computer glitch caused a slight miscalculation. My favorite part is her quote, "If it was someone else other than me, they might have paid the $870." So is she saying that she's the only person smart enough to realize that it was a mistake? I mean, $870 and $2 are nearly identical in most people's minds. Or is she saying that other people just have $870 lying around in their cars and don't care enough to question the bill? I really don't get it.
  
• Guilty Wife? – This whole deal makes little sense to me. A woman apparently was having an affair, and when she realized that her husband was about to catch her, she screamed rape. The husband killed the man to defend his wife. He was not indicted by a grand jury, and she is going to jail for manslaughter. Huh?
  
• Beer Can Coffin – I don't know what's worse, having a coffin that looks like a beer can, making the coffin look like a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon, or actually keeping the coffin at home and using to store and serve Pabst Blue Ribbon until you actually need it. This story is so messed up, I'm not sure I could add anything.
  
• Pit Bulls – Hardly a week goes by that you don't hear about a pit bull attack, so from that perspective this is not too original. On the other hand, I've never before heard of a pit bull attacking the engine of a truck. Poor guy. Just got his truck fixed and now it's been attacked by a pit bull. I guess the dogs are losing their taste for humans and are after 10W-30 now. I think it would have been hilarious to see the look on the guy's face, though, when he opened the hood and his engine growled at him.
  
• Earth's Other Moon – Is it possible that Earth had more than one moon at one point in time? Without going into a lot of detail, scientists have identified several LaGrange points in the solar system (these are points between objects were gravity balances out so that each object has an equal force). In reviewing these different points, they are finding that there are generally objects trapped in them. They found, however, that the LaGrange point between Earth and our current moon is empty. So, obviously, the fact that there is nothing there means that we used to have two moons and some outside force messed up the trinity. Make sense? Sometimes, I really have a hard time understanding how scientists get to their conclusions.
  

Enjoy!