On the morning of the 6th of January, Glen Clark, the driver of the #7 Oakbay-Uvic bus route, reported the most bizarre scene on Foul Bay near Camosun College.1
A oversized hound wouldn't stop humping the flabbergasted man's leg at the bus-stop. 'It was just weird,' Clark said.2
Clark observed the distinguished older gentleman in an overcoat apparently trying to ward off a dog with a grey and black checkered two brimmed hat as the bus approached to the bus-stop.3
'If I hadn't been in politics and Premier before being tossed out and forced to find a job where I couldn't bribe someone to do my home renovations, I would have thought this unbelievable.'4
Yet, unbelievably, other people at the bus-stop appeared not to see it happening. 'You could hear him puffing furiously at an old pipe in the corner of his mouth, all the while yelling 'Down you damn dog!! Get off my leg!!'' Clark recalled, 'But the people moved around him and calmly reaching for their bus-passes and bus fare.'5
When asked if this was a ghostly encounter in connection to Sherlock Holmes' birthday 150 years ago or was it just another hallucination like a balanced budget, Clark declined comment muttering this time he didn't have his hand in 'it.'6
He then proceeded to give a speech to promise more timely bus-service for the SPCA over a five year initiative to reduce the number of random dog cold nosed incidents.7
At the time of deadline to publish, BC Transit had not returned any phone-calls to how they were intending to treat this incident or if Clark had bribed them with hunting knives. Mostly because it never happened! or did it... *twilight zone music*8
Author notes
inspired by an immensily amusing poem by macandrew http://allpoetry.com/poem/1009628
but partially because i really need to practice my journalism writing skills. so i'll start reporting the things that never happened *twilight zone music* ohhh shutup the sound effects..
hey i can dream that politicians get nailed into regular joe jobs and yelled at somedays
cheers
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journalistic style... who what when where how and most importantly WHY... nail those in the first paragraph and then take the rest of the article trying to firgure out why and have at least three quotes, perferably from two different sources, but here...
well if hounds of barkersville could talk, they'd probably say that sherlock holmes tasted bad... lol cheers
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funny. very cynical, but funny.
Gave me a nice little laugh. The journalistic (is that a word, 'journalistic'?) style of writing was an interesting twist. I almost thought it was suppose to be real. Until the part about the politician.
I agree with you; politicians will never get nailed into regular joe jobs. They don't own any shirts with blue collars on them and they wouldn't even know where to buy one.
for Emily
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what???? you know brodie???? odd... yah... it's in essence journalistic style which is only so exciting compared to other genres.... and sorta polictical... but i tried
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not bad. i enjoyed it.
wow, your brodie25 and i know Brodie. weird...
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