Fun with Vulture Spies

The fine folks of Hartlepool have nothing on these clowns.

Saudi Arabian officials have "detained" a vulture on accusations of being a spy for Israel, media reports say.

Fucking Zionists are everywhere.  It gets better though:

In December, the governor of Egypt's South Sinai province, Mohamed Abdul Fadil Shousha, suggested the spy agency may have had a hand in a string of deadly shark attacks off the coast of the Sharm el-Sheikh resort.

He said it was "not out of the question" that Mossad had put the killer shark in the area.

Yes, obvious know that you mention it.

All very amusing, but the related email discussion with some chums was more so. 
I’ve introduced My Mate Dave before, so here he is again with My Mate Tom:

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MMTOM -
Well, shit. I'm glad you brought this up as I'd almost forgotten. A
colleague of mine (he of the "I don't want the wifi router shooting
radiation into my head") saw this article last night and offered some of
his much valued wisdom on the subject of the Mossad-instigated
shark-attack, thus:
"Yeah, like, 'cause they could easily do that. I
mean, like, they have satellites that can get a picture of a packet of
fags, so they could just laser down some microwaves at sharks when they
surface and control them."

I'll leave you to savour that sentence for a moment. In case you were
wondering, he was being serious, yes.

MMDAVE-
It has taken me until now to absorb the majesty of that particular
reckon. The part after the last comma has the rare attribute of making
sense with respect to syntax and no other frame of reference known to
terrestrial intelligence. The smooth leap from the widely suspected
capability of modern military optical imaging satellites to observe
cigarette packet sized objects to thought control of fish is most
noteworthy.

In other news, I was reading about a guy that flew fighters for BAE in
demo flights at air shows. He recalls the first time MiG came to
Farnborough. In their hospitality suite they had "de-icing alcohol from
the jet fighters served up in a watering can and accompanied
incongruously with the most delicious chocolates you've ever tasted -
absolutely true".

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Awesome. 

After a few half-hearted false starts last year, I shall see if blogging can be jump-started now that Our Collation Overlords have had a chance to prove themselves equal to their unfailing ability to annoy me.

Oh, and Happy New Year.