What would you do?

Imagine you are driving along a pretty busy highway and you see a badly injured animal in the road. Its innards are out a little, but it's alive and conscious. For the sake of the example, the animal is one that is common, but not invasive, like a possum in the eastern US or a red fox in the British Isles or Europe (can't think of an example for Australia, but you get the idea, right?)

What do you do? Do you move the animal off the road (with a shovel or something so you don't get bit)? Do you try to run the animal over and kill it more quickly? Do you try to kill it with something in your car (a shovel, some other tool)? Suppose it's a weekend or at night, and you can't get a hold of a rehabber, vet, or animal rescue org, what then?

Many of us have experienced something close to this, and I'd guess that most of us didn't feel any better after the experience.

Your thoughts?

New Soylent Screen Up!

In this installment, I review the first ever Swedish vampire movie, Frostbiten. The cool idea about it is that it takes place way up where the sun doesn't come up for a month, so the vampires don't have to hide during the day. Apparently the same idea was in a comic that's been made into a movie called "30 Days of Night" which comes out this month. I don't know who thought of it first, but somebody's biting someone's idea.



Read my review here at Blood Blade and Thruster.

3:00 snapshot, #202.

I went home sick today, so by 3:00 I was in bed with the dogs. I don't think I ever felt like I could go home sick from Drumlin--too much work and no one else to do it!

On this day in 365 Urban Species: Horsenettle, a prickly member of the nightshade family.