Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for May 16, 2021

Last night’s story had a train in it; it reminded me of the following true story:

My wife and I once bought a chance on Amtrak. We were traveling merrily along when the train came to a rather abrupt halt. We weren’t at a station; just out in an open field. I asked the conductor why we had stopped.

“We hit a cow,” he replied.

The woman across the aisle from us said, “Oh, dear – was it on the tracks?”

Plane Crashes After Crocodile Escapes, Causes Panic

https://abcnews.go.com/Travel/plane-crashes-crocodile-escapes-panic/story?id=11947027#:~:text=The%20propeller%20plane%20was%20approaching%20its%20destination%20when%2C,was%20thought%20to%20be%20a%20lack%20of%20fuel.

a crocodile plane crash 11 years ago? hard to believe unless you find the story

Those “deer” look a whole lot like elk!

Oddly enough, I remember griping about this elsewhere just recently: a =body= is decapitated. The head cannot be decapitated. Saying this, you are talking about a headless head.

World’s population hasn’t been that low since 1981.

“I’m tired of all these crocodiles on a plane!”

Regardless of nationality or species, it’s quite easy to lose one’s head during mating season.

We’ve progressed as a species, 450 million people and now only 2 or 3 are sacrificed annually to the volcanoes.

They tried to tell him, but he wouldn’t accept the fact that you just can’t fly a plane with alligator arms.

Blosom tried out at shooting guard for the Chicago NBA team, but was udderly bad at it.

Of the 4 items, only one is capable of repeating. Unfortunately it’s the worst one.

It was six feet tall when standing on four legs? Wow.

blossom always had trouble getting dates…

Just how many cows are ever measured? The tallest cow that EVER lived? Have they been measuring cows for centuries? Sorry Blossom, I don’t believe it.

Doesn’t anyone comment on the comic anymore?

I thought there must be a mistake in the way the antlers are drawn. They don’t appear to be locked. So, I Googled it. The drawing is accurate. I also found out that isn’t the only incident in which a deer has the antlers and head of another caught in his antlers.

I guess that deer has to wait for molting season, when he loses his antlers, and hence the decapitated head. Sucks to be him!

It’s Blossom. Two esses. Don’t this comic get proofread?

“ONE IN 10”? When did we lose almost half of the world’s population? More like “ONE IN 17”.

Sounds like a drunk hunter’s prank, to me.

Take care, may AA Chapter 99 founder Kirby “Hic Plop” Nonnymoosord be with you, and gesundheit.

https://leadstories.com/hoax-alert/2021/02/fact-check-deer-carries-severed-head-of-dead-rival-entangled-with-his-antlers-on-island-of-hokkaido.html

The world population hasn’t been 4.5 billion since 1980. Now its closer to 7.5 billion. That has to be an old RBION factoid about volcanos.

Looks like the Earth is getting set to reduce the population by 10%…

I think I saw that deer in Lars von Trier’s film Antichrist!

If 450 million is 10% of the world’s population, that means the world’s population is only 4.5 billion. Someone needs to check an almanac.

Apparently even deer occasionally collect trophies…this one seems to be looking for a taxideerist.

All these comments have me laughing so hard that I’ve got tears going.!

the croc didn’t cause the crash. Like most plane crashes it was caused by people doing something stupid

Oh sure – the photographer saw that deer…but did she get a photograph?

THE STEAKS ARE HIGH Is this the world’s biggest cow? Internet marvels at 6ft 4in tall beast that weighs more than a car

Knickers, a seven-year-old Holstein Friesian steer, is more than twice the size of the rest of his herd in Myalup, Western Australia

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7839028/worlds-biggest-cow-australia-6ft-4-tall/

Okay, so technically Knickers is a steer, not a cow.

Unfortunately, the world’s population is a lot higher than 4.5 billion!

I can’t imagine a cow being that tall. Or a deer ripping the head off of another deer. SHM