Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for July 14, 2023

Put Ben where it belongs. Where you found it. We have a bear (named bear) and it goes about it’s business and we live with it!

Maybe Ben doesn’t like to be locked in a cage. That’s odd.

I don’t suppose it occurred to anyone to fix the enclosure.

Decades ago, there was a news story about an orangutan at a zoo named Fu Manchu. He and some other orangutans escaped their enclosure several times. At first, zoo management blamed employees for failing to lock a door. But, that wasn’t the case. Fu had found a wire, and was able to jimmy the door latch.

When zookeepers realized Fu was able to unlatch the door, they started searching the orangutan enclosure. Fu hid the wire in his mouth.

I was heading to the zoo when I saw a sign that said “Zoo ahead. Bear left” so I turned around and went home…

Well then you still haven’t got us beat then, so there. ~ Rest of the world with plenty of geysers

May the bored be with you as they are with that geyser counter guy and the bear, plus that dork who keeps making purses out of cacti but not for free. Aaaannd gesundheit.

Stupid Stupid Stupid, cactus into leather, how long does it take to grow? HOW long before greed harvests ALL the cactus into extinction. The veggies will probably blame global warming on cow gas. They will probably drag deep sea fishing nets through the desert to get their supply.

Where do Adrian & Marte get their cactuses from? Do they have a catus farm?

Strange, but many processes of making leather use differing hydrocarbons derived from oil, coal and natural gas. Is that still considered vegan?

I wonder what the “Stick”er price of those purses are.

It must be quite a process to turn cactus into vegan leather.

Andean bear another name for the spectacled bear, from South America.

there are so many geysers because: “The Yellowstone supervolcano, located in northwestern Wyoming in Yellowstone National Park, is one of the largest volcanoes in the world. It’s erupted multiple times over the past 2.1 million years, including three massive eruptions that smothered the surrounding landscape in ash.Dec 2, 2022”

Ben is a very unappreciative bear. How dare he keep trying to escape!

How do cactus feel about getting skinned?

Mr.Wiley offered him a better job

Next door to Desserto is a medical care office that gets a lot of business.

Adrian and Marte forget to take the thorns off the cacti.

Have you all read just what is under Yellowstone Park, driving all those geysers and pots?

I bet you fit right in in Florida

In case anybody else wondered; from grammarist.com:

Cacti is the Latin plural of cactus, and for English speakers is a more popular usage. Cactuses is the English plural, and is also completely acceptable to use. Dictionaries list both as a correct form, leaving it up to the user which they prefer.