Friday, December 02, 2005

Weird News(?) from Australia

Our local newspaper, The Kansas City Star, runs a daily item called Weird News. It is usually one of the first things I read. I'm not sure where they find these items, but they are amusing.

This morning's item caught my eye because I have been reading Alison's blog. I would like to share it with you.

"In November, to calm down a growing number of apparently horrified Australians, the Food Authority of the state of New South Wales issued a statement assuring people that meat in their refrigerators that appears to glow in the dark is acutally harmless. The light-emitting bacteria responsible for the glow 'is not known t cause food poinoning' and is naturally present in most meats and fish the authority's director said."

I am a bit perplexed about this. It brings to mind some questions.
  1. If refrigerators in Australia have internal lights, how do folks see meat glowing?
  2. If refrigerators in Australia don't have internal lights, does glowing meat help them find other things in the refrigerator.
  3. Does the Australian Goverment have a secret base to study UFO's in NSW?
  4. Is this another method for governments to control the minds of its citizens?
  5. If there is glowing meat can other glowing foods be far behind?
Does anyone else have questions about this unique (to me) phenomenon?

1 comment:

Polly said...

Jack, I am as perplexed as you at this one. Depending on the newspaper/news service from which you gleaned this I wonder if it is not one of our Australian's strange (to American's) sense of humour. Yes we do have lights in our refrigerators (they are made in Germany, China et al like those in USA) and I don't know one Australian who would eat anything, especially meat, that would 'glow in the dark' (beside edible condoms).
Our secret bases by the way are run by Americans so it could be a new device being tested.