OH, WILBUR!“It’s not our usual call,” said Banksville, N.Y., Assistant Fire Chief Bill Richardson. “Very rarely do you see a horse on a roof.” But, indeed that was their assignment: a resident called the fire department to help get a horse off his garage roof. The garage is next to a hill, and the horse apparently stumbled off the hill onto the roof.”The roof couldn’t support the weight,” Richardson said, causing its hooves to punch through the roof, so it was stuck. Firefighters called in a veterinarian, who sedated the horse. They then built a ramp and walked the horse down to the ground.When amazed onlookers asked Richardson how the horse got on the roof, he told them, “It was a flying horse.” (White Plains Journal News) … What, when he could have looked at them incredulously and asked, “Haven’t you ever heard of a horsefly?”Source: www.thisistrue.comPOLITICALLY INCORRECTGerry Ritz, Canada’s Federal Agriculture Minister, apologized for his gallows humor after a breakout of listeria, which has been traced to contaminated cut meats and cheeses. “This is like a death by a thousand cuts — or should I say cold cuts?” Ritz cracked during a conference call updating scientists and bureaucrats on the outbreak.When told of yet another death, this time on Prince Edward Island, he replied, “Please tell me it’s (opposition Member of Parliament) Wayne Easter.” Ritz said his “couple of spur-of-moment offhand comments” were made during “a highly stressful time,” but admitted his jokes “were tasteless and completely inappropriate.”Easter has called for Ritz to resign. (Toronto Star) … But where is the outrage of Ritz trying to take the jobs of news commentators and late night comedians?
