Friday, December 12, 2008

Where does one purchase fox urine?



A man in Minnesota fed up with teens toilet papering his house at night took matters into his own hands when he donned a pair of night-vision goggles and a squirt gun full of fox urine in September.

In court Wednesday the old man, Scott Wagar, plead not guilty to misdemeanor battery charges.



I think the story is rather humorous only because I can imagine this curmudgeonly old man hiding in the bushes all night muttering to himself waiting for those, "dang blasted meddling kids" to strike at any time. Still I had no idea where the old man got the fox urine from. The article didn't mention any breeding of foxes in his backyard.

UPDATE

Apparently after googling 'fox urine' and finding more versions of the same article I've learned that fox urine is an effective natural means of protective homes and gardens from other predatory animals. I only wonder now what fox urine smells and tastes like. It seems to me that you could probably mix some chemicals and emulate the pungent aroma but any expert fox hunter would tell you nothing beats the real thing!

The Amish really are a race of supermen

I guess it should come as no shock that the through isolating their gene pool, eating primarily organic and unprocessed foods and refraining from using modern pesticides have made the Amish super beings!

Actually its not freshly churned butter that makes the Amish superior and its not their knack for craftsmanship. Rather there is a genetic anomaly that is found in 5% of older members of the Pennsylvania Amish population.

This 5% only have one working copy (instead of two) of a specific gene (APOC3) that produces a protein that slows the breakdown of fats (triglycerides) circulating in the blood.

Scientists are already experimenting with new drugs that will target this gene.