See here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-47144891
Seems to me, anyone who believes this story must be a sucker....
Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
Apparently the driver was miss-quoted. The police are not pressing charges and have apologised for any embarassment they have caused. What he actually saw was a bald, pink eight legged cat.
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Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
Probably a Trans-Cat ... it identifies as an octopus, but can only pretend to have the life experiences of an octopus...
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Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
He wasn't far from the sea.
Mabe octopi can walk?
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Mabe octopi can walk?
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Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
There are plenty of Youtube videos of octopuses walking/slithering and even hunting on land, but generally within a few feet of the sea. If there was one "more than 5km" inland then maybe it was one of these guys on holiday.
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Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
my first thought about drugs seems to be what the local policethink as well.
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Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
I remember when I was a kid, my parents used to call bungee cords like these, "octopus leads". My father had a set of them threaded through a central ring, he used the arrangement to anchor down a load on the roof rack. I suppose they did somewhat suggest an octopus sprawled over the car roof...
And on one occasion the whole load came adrift and fell off, whilst we were motoring along a motorway. Luckily a kind-hearted following motorist alerted us in time. So that motorist really did encounter an "octopus" in the roadway....
And on one occasion the whole load came adrift and fell off, whilst we were motoring along a motorway. Luckily a kind-hearted following motorist alerted us in time. So that motorist really did encounter an "octopus" in the roadway....
Suppose that this room is a lift. The support breaks and down we go with ever-increasing velocity.
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Let us pass the time by performing physical experiments...
--- Arthur Eddington (creator of the Eddington Number).
Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
maybe he really meant the was trying to avoid octopussy? all the hands groping him?
Re: Motorist "swerves to avoid octopus"
I liked the Twitter comment that he must have gone into a squid.
Time for a remake of that car-insurance advert with the horse with a dress, methinks.
Time for a remake of that car-insurance advert with the horse with a dress, methinks.