Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for April 09, 2018

“You ruined my Brooks Brothers shirt. NOW we duel with real bullets!”

And how is Joan Murray 18 years later?

But wax bullets were not nearly as popular as paintball.

Where in Marathon County?? What city is it near?

But unfortunately Mark Trail appeared and blew up the fire ants.

Wait a second, the International dateline is out in the Pacific and the Greenwich meridian is through England. All I see here is a marker saying 45 north latitude and 90 degrees west longitude.This spot in Section 14, in the Town of Rietbrock, Marathon County is the exact center of the northern half of the Western Hemisphere. It is here that the 90th meridian of longitude bisects the 45th parallel of latitude, meaning it is exactly halfway between the North Pole and the Equator, and is a quarter of the way around the earth from Greenwich, England.

And where is located the other geographical marker?, because that one is going from East to West, and from West to East?

I say revive dueling. Imagine if the courts weren’t the only recourse for extracting justice from a corrupt system. Ah, for the good old days, when honor meant more than legality.

Hmm. I’ll have to look up that maker on my next visit to Wausau.

I totally agree with KHMO, The Greenwich Meridian (Latitude 0) runs through Greenwich a suburb of London England.

Joan Murray, did a third bad thing happen that day?

Well, that marker had to be somewhere. And dueling? Let’s use those cardboard tubes from wrapping paper and require the duelists to vocalized the sounds of lightsabers whilst dueling. Or we can use pies. White shirts and chocolate cream pies.

Wax dueling sounds like fun, but I need a practice target. Any volunteers?

I have a friend who survived a helicopter crash. The doctors told him he would have died were it not for the several hundred fire ant stings.

Unfortunately we still have dueling today, we just call it, drive by shootings.

It’s fun to keep moving the geographical markers around to mess with the scientists heads.

It’s not really dueling if you can have a “Do Over”. If you want to go the wimpy way, use pillows.