Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 02, 2024

Scotsman at a Yankees game

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So a Scotsman goes on vacation to NYC, and decides to take in a Yankees home game, as he didn’t understand baseball and wanted to learn more.

So he settles into his seat and the game starts. In the top of the second inning, he sees the pitcher walk the batter.

The Scotsman, not understanding, stands up, shouting “RUN, MAN! RUN!!”

The man sitting in front of him turns around and says, “He doesn’t have to run, he’s got four balls.”

The Scotsman thinks about this for a moment, and then shouts “WALK WITH PRIDE, MAN! WALK WITH PRIDE!”

I wonder if that’s waste water or drinking water because that’s a lot of water!

Does New York still have alligators in the sewers?

I leak about 2.5 liters a day

But don’t bother fixing it for Pete’s sake.

Around here natural gas leaks were killing trees.

Three natural phenomena, the quake, the eclipse, and Big Betty’s chili dog gas explosion. She may have caused the other two, come to think of it.

City hired a company to find water main leaks using sonar or something similar. Losing 6 million gallons a day at the time.

Public punching bags. What a great idea.

He WILL be back. lol

Those punching bags must be in secret locations. Every trip I’ve made into the Rotten Apple, I haven’t seen one.

There’s a group of people in NYC that believe Asians are for punching.

And the residents pay for that 20 million gallons…

That is 2% of NYC’s average daily usage.

The Japanese have used the “frustration room” concept for decades. Back in the late 60s my uncle had a 3 month long work assignment in Tokyo, and when he got home he told us about how the company had a room full of heavy punching bags, where employees could vent by beating one of the bags with a baseball bat.

20 million gallons! And we have to put up with 1.3 gallon flushes, 1 gallon per minute interior water spouts. These cities that have old, decaying infrastructure, collect money for services, but don’t want to fix problems.

We had punching bags for one day for smoker ban frustrations until someone broke her hand punching it.

How big of a problem the leakage is, in ecological terms? It’s all water that comes back in the atmosphere, no?