When folklore becomes reality:

I thought that a few of you might have missed this gem from "News of the Weird" in today's newspapers. For the sake of those who know "The Intoxicated Rat" from the singing of Cisco Houston or Doc Watson, I quote:

No longer weird: Adding to the list of stories that were formerly weird but which now occur with such frequency that they must be retired from circulation: The dog that steps on his master's gun, on the trigger, causing the gun to fire and hit the master, sometimes fatally, as happened to a 51-year-old man in the town of Bad Urach, Germany, in August. And the pack of animals that breaks into a liquor storage area, drinks up, and then goes on a drunken rampage, as happened in March and April with rats (moonshine at a police station) and monkeys (liquor samples in a government testing lab) in New Delhi, India. (Authorities could tell the rats were drunk because they were attacking cats.)

There you go. As the song says: "Bring on the goddamned cat!"

Sandy