News Briefs and Altar-Cations September 3rd, 2023

What do bulls, gators and toothy-fish have in common?  They’re all a part of this week’s News Briefs.

We’re all used to seeing pictures of pets in cars,

But a Nebraska man pushed it a bit when he was pulled over by police for driving with a bull.

Don’t worry, he didn’t steer.  (rim shot?)

The bull was riding shotgun in the modified Ford Crown Victoria sedan and appeared to like it.

Watch this…

Lee Meyer has driven in parades across the area for years and has half the windshield and roof removed to make room for his bull, named Howdy Doody,

to ride along.

A yellow metal cattle gate serves as the passenger side door — allowing for the Watusi

bull to be tied up — and a set of longhorns serves as a hood ornament.

The officer said there were clearly some traffic violations, but they let the driver off with a warning as long as he turned around and took Howdy Doody home.

And that’s no bull.

We recently told you about the Guinness World Record meat stick

And longest living cat tail

The alligator caught last week near Yazoo, Mississippi  – Yazoo?

That looks more like Provincetown, Key West or San Francisco… with a LOT of pick up trucks.

Anyway, it’s Alligator Hunting Season in Mississippi and a group of hunters landed a

an 800 pound gator that measured over 14 feet – making it the longest alligator ever to be recorded in Mississippi, beating the previous record holder by two inches.

Yazoo is located in a designated alligator hunting zone and Mississippi’s alligator hunting season opens on the last Friday in August each year.

While we’re in the water, if you google “mutant fish,” you’re going to come up with some weird pictures.

And when 11  year-old Charlie Clinton caught this fish

and saw the human-like teeth – he thought that’s what he had caught – a mutant.

Charlie told NPR the fish put up a heck of a fight.

After consulting a game warden Charlie found out it was actually a Pacu – which is a native of South America and a cousin of the piranha.  How it got to a small pond in an Oklahoma City suburb no one knows.

It was a catch-and-release pond, so that’s what Charlie did.  But, since the Pacu is considered invasive it should not have been released.

Charlie’s mama says he is trying to re-catch the fish and she hopes to have it mounted for him.  Smiling, of course.

Why not have it sing, too?

And that’s this week’s news briefs.

Last month there was a PrideFest in Denver that featured a family-friendly drag show.   During the show, a group of approximately 70 men

wearing shirts reading “Stand to Protect Children,” stood blocking the view of the performers for roughly 40 minutes until they were escorted out.

I believe if they really wanted to protect the children, they should be standing outside of churches.

Such as the Camino Church in Charlotte North Carolina where

Pastor Bobby Price faces 14 charges involving sex crimes against children, dating back two decades.  The children were between 9 and 15 years old at the time, police said.

He’s accused of crimes dating back to 2001 to 2011, when he was a youth pastor at Kings Way Baptist Church in Concord. Price served 16 months in prison after his 2014 conviction on similar charges.

AND he is already a registered sex offender after a 2014 conviction for indecent liberties with a minor. 

Jesus must not believe in background checks.

Or maybe those brave men should go stand guard down to Cape Coral, Florida where Deacon Brian Rogolino of the Church of Jesus Christ has been arrested, accused of sexually assaulting a child when she was 8 years old.

An investigation revealed Rogolino allegedly performed sex acts on the victim without her consent. He is being charged with two counts of sexual battery on a child 12 years or younger.

Kevin Lentz, a Lexington, Kentucky high school teacher and a volunteer in the youth program at the Faith Lutheran Church

has been charged with 17 sexual offenses involving minors and has been placed on leave by the Fayette County district.

Yeah, those Drag Queens in Denver were a real threat to those children, weren’t they?

And that’s this week’s Altar-Cations.