Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for August 23, 2013
Transcript:
The Lonely Tree An acacia tree that stood in the Sahara desert in Niger for decades was the only tree for 250 miles and tell a truck driver knocked it down in the 1970s! 2 St Second Street is the most common street name in the United States- First Street is third! Vang Seao Chung of Pa Vag Su, Vietnam, as a 20 inch hair tail growing from his lower back!
Templo S.U.D. over 11 years ago
Well, at least that tree wasn’t knocked down by George swinging on a vine. (I wonder if Main Street is the second most common U.S. street name.)
Space_cat over 11 years ago
here in NY dam near every other town has a Broadway.
jack fairbanks over 11 years ago
george of the jungle’s last truck driving gig
billb181 about 11 years ago
Yes, but Where do all the hippist meet? (South Street, South Street) :)
ArtyG about 11 years ago
My grammar school was on 13th street in Bayonne! I know, I don’t care either!!
roscoedog55 about 11 years ago
My daughter found the only tree for miles with my car’s front bumper. She’s fine. Bumper not as lucky.
tedunn5453 about 11 years ago
We have a lot of those “Professional Truck Drivers” like that here in St Louis. Can’t see trees, cars, other trucks, people, buses, speed limit signs, traffic lights, you name it, they can’t see it. They could very well be qualified to be Major League Umpires if they ever loose their CDL!
Rocky11 about 11 years ago
I lived on the outskirts of my little town,,,on …you guessed it…second street.
PDXCubbie about 11 years ago
What’s in second? We have first and third.
Vermont Premium Member about 11 years ago
Let’s pray that hair tails don’t become a fad here.
IQTech61 about 11 years ago
Look it up. Main Street ranked 7th in the top 20.
Stephen Gilberg about 11 years ago
That driver could not have had an accident. Jerk.
gocomicsmember about 11 years ago
It is obvious that the reason why “1st St” does not rank first is because so many towns have another name for the first one in order. Sometimes it is “Main Street,” sometimes “Broadway,” and probably a lot of other less obvious possibilities.
heatherjasper1 about 11 years ago
There’s no ‘J’ street in Washington D.C. There’s every other letter, but no ‘J.’ The reason that came to be was not to scorn John Jay, the first Chief Justice of the United States, but because the ‘I’ and ‘J’ looked so similar in the form of writing at the time, that people would have been confused.
gmu328 about 11 years ago
2nd is probably most common since “1st” must be split between “1st” and “Main”
tigerchik32 about 11 years ago
I heard that tree was replaced with a metal sculpture to honor it.
Lamberger about 11 years ago
Street: 1st Street tends to get renamed to Main Street, Central Street, or such..Tree: Iconoclasm is not dead.
folklegendredux about 11 years ago
Tell that freak to shave his ass already.
fixer1967 about 11 years ago
Man with a tail? Makes you wonder is some animal DNA got mixed in there somewhere or maybe some long since dormant caveman gene got switched on.
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 11 years ago
I get it, the high traffic central street is something like Main, Maple, Oak, Broadway….the next street over is 2nd st.
Zen-of-Zinfandel about 11 years ago
I see the Acacia tree and it often reminds me of Africa and the movie “The Gods Must Be Crazy”