Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 08, 2020

Mijay Vallya, why?

After they smashed the car with sledgehammers, they got in their cars and went home.

Anyone want to bet that the Indian Trillionaire Mijay Vallya built a replica of a skyscraper on top of a white house? [If so, everyone PLEASE just ignore him!]

I’m pretty sure that Mijay Vallya had to return their Best New Artist Grammy when it was revealed that they did not do the singing on their albums.

Yes, 1969-1970 was one of the craziest college times I have ever experienced, but I never knew that Hippies had their own demolition derby.

The human external ear is oddly built when compared to most animal ears.

Those gills, on the way to becoming human ears, spent evolutionary eons taking their shape through a variety of ears of our non-human ancestors.

On the back rim of the ear, about a third of the way down from its uppermost part, there is sometimes a small projection. It may be rounded or it may be slightly pointy. It may project outward from the outer curve of the ear or inward from the inner curve.

Some theorize it is a vestigial remnant of a pointy ear on some squirrel-like ancestor of humans.

There are pictures online, usually found under the name Darwin’s tubercule.

If you have one, you can easily detect it with a fingertip.

Some of us are apparently closer to our to our sciurine forbears than others.

If someone asked me to name a college where something incredibly stupid happened, I would say either Berkeley or Michigan.

Ok, I’m stumped. WHY was a mock trial held against the automobile?

What Ripley’s doesn’t tell you is that Vijay Mallya cheated Indian banks of about 9,000 crores (1 crore equals 10 million), accused of bank fraud and money laundering, who fled the country and is living in UK now and trying his best not to get extradited back to India to face comeuppance for his crimes.

The Michigan Mock Trial : About 1,000 people gathered at high noon on March 11, 1970, on the grassy quad at the center of the Ann Arbor campus to watch the blue-and-white 1959 Ford Sedan/clunker face charges of “murder of the American public, crossing state lines to pollute, inciting traffic jams, creating physical and psychological dependence, and discriminating against the poor.” This last charge reflected newly urgent concerns about highways, which tended to be built in lower-income neighborhoods, and resulted in polluting and sometimes even bulldozing those communities.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-michigan-students-put-car-trial-180974374/

on this day in history on September 8th 1644 The Dutch colony of New Amsterdam surrenders to the British fleet that sails into its harbor. Five years later, the British change the name to New York.

Jerry Reed’s “Lord, Mr. Ford” was released in 1973 and was absolutely an indictment of the American automobile industry, so don’t think it was only college hippies that knew Detroit was selling them a raw deal. (https://www.metrolyrics.com/lord-mr-ford-lyrics-jerry-reed.html)

Was it the 50 foot woman that attacked the car to pieces?

And thus was born the Chevrolet Vega.

Take care and gesundheit.

Imagine if his middle name was Jay…

Of what charge(s) was the car found guilty?

50 years later we’re still dependent on our automobiles. I suggest reading “Asphalt Nation” by Jane Holtz Kay.

A car is probably a better choice than a pig, goat, etc.

Are those of us without preauricular sinuses not evolved from fish?

Thanks to one of you for explaining the charges against the car. Liberals even then!

So-o-o I take it fish used to breathe through their ears?…

Were the jurors selected from among the protesters? Did any of the jurors desire a chance to swing a sledgehammer at the car?

vijay mallya proves once again that bad taste is universal…