The strangest things can happen in small rural areas

OK, so it was Thanksgiving break, and I was sitting on my futon with Sprout on my lap, and she was going at her bottle like a little starved thing (she's a big girl!), and lo and behold, CNN has a newsflash - FROM OHIO - and close enough to home for it to count. I had to hear this.

Pike county made national headline news on CNN. Say what? They have GOT to be kidding me. Pike county is a small rural area, and, for the life of me, I couldn't imagine what in the world could have been so important as to make the national news. Now, the US Enrichment Corporation (USEC) is located not too far from there, and I thought to myself - "I hope and pray that there hasn't been an accident, or we're toast". Enriched uranium is, um, scary stuff (my high school physics teacher would be aghast at this understatement); then, I heard the news that a lion was attacking cars on US 23 South! Whew, is that all? I listened, intently, and had to shake my head. I'm sure glad that I don't travel to work that way!

Here are some links, which I found posted on AOL News, Fox News 28, and CNN:

AOL NEWS:
"Pet Lion on Loose Chases Cars in Ohio"

FOX NEWS 28:
Here's the story, which also ran on Fox News 28 (there's a picture of this lion actually in this link):
"Pet Lion on the Loose Chases Cars in Southern Ohio"

CNN:
and the transcript from CNN.

. . . and y'all thought nothing interesting ever happened back here in "dem woods." There's even a kangaroo rescue within 45 minutes from my house, but that's another story...