shoes_worn_thin, posts by tag: strange behavior - LiveJournal (original) (raw)
I love quotations because it is a joy to find thoughts one might have, beautifully expressed with much authority by someone recognized wiser than oneself. ~ Marlene Dietrich
So, here's a weird story. Anyone who's been reading my journal for a while should know that I have an addiction to a good mystery. I've been indulging that addiction lately by looking into unidentified and missing persons cases around the states - not that I truly expect to become a hero or anything, but you never know. Maybe someday there will be a face that will just click.
I was reading about missing persons in Louisiana when I came to the story of an unidentified woman who exhibited some rather bizarre behavior. The woman was hanging around the pier in front of the Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans, on the banks of the Mississippi River. A security guard came to tell her to be on her way, but rather than acting like someone might be expected to act - rather than leaving with a grumble or two, the woman told the security guard, "It's okay, I belong in the water anyway."
With that, she dove into the Mississippi River and swam out into the very busy shipping channel, the guard yelling behind her to come back all the while. Once she'd reached about a hundred yards away, she began to scream and struggle. She went under once, twice, and didn't come back up again. A search for the woman was organized, but no body was ever found.
There is still no one who knows who this woman was or what she meant.
It's a very, very mad world.
On a different note, you know how sometimes you're listening to the radio and you think you understand what the singer just said, but then you look up the lyrics and you were totally off? And it's usually only then that you realize what you thought he said was retarded? I was listening to Pandora Radio yesterday at work, and this Jump, Little Children song came on where I swear I heard perfectly, "I'm sure someone would hand me some advice cream."
Now - yes. That's stupid. But JLC does have some unusual lyrics, and I thought maybe they were combining the words "advice" and "ice" and making a play on "ice cream." I came up with this in five seconds, gimme a break.
What he really said was, "I'm sure someone would hear me if I scream." Much more normal. My ears are pretty darn deceptive.
I don't need a reason.
You know that part at the end of Jaws where there's that whole complicated "trying-to-shoot-the-oxygen-tank-in-the-giant-shark's-mouth" thing? All they needed was this guy to show up on a neighboring boat, and Sheriff Brody wouldn't have had to go through all that. The shark would've just said boom.
Anyways, I will leave you with a feel-good story for the weekend. And probably a sandwich craving. :)
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