Image via WikipediaIt was at one of the houses in a more rural area where I saw something I had never seen, at least not outside of a zoo or a petting farm. I was backing out of one driveway, and I looked to make sure everything behind me was clear. There, standing on top of a mailbox of the neighboring house on my side of the car was a magnificent blue peacock. Before I could stop the car and pull out my BlackBerry to take a picture, the bird jumped off of the mailbox.
As I said before, the only place that I have ever seen a peacock was either at a zoo or a petting farm, so I was somewhat surprised to see one out and about in Davidsonville, MD. My first thought was that it had somehow escaped a nearby petting farm, but doing a few Google searches, it turns out that a lot of people keep peacocks as pets. Still, I would have expected a pet peacock to be kept in a pen so that it couldn't escape. Hopefully, this bird is safe and sound.
Speaking of sights, I was driving home from doing my weekly grocery shopping this morning, when I came upon a traffic accident waiting to happen. You know those rigid, plastic kiddie swimming pools? I was on a two lane interstate where the speed limit is 55mph. There was a car with a kiddie pool on top driving about 10mph with their hazard lights flashing on a merge lane that was coming to an end. The pool was not tied to the top of the car, but the driver had one hand out the window, and a passenger on the other side holding on to the pool. I don't know about you, but if I were planning to transport a pool on top of my car, I would have either brought something to tie it down, or sprung for the extra couple box a ball of twine would have cost.
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