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We Love The South!

August 31, 2011 by

They're sexy but they're stupid.
They're sexy but they're stupid.
It’s a funny world we live in. Gov. Rick Perry, from Texas, is dumber than a box of rocks. Yet he leads the Republican polls to be president. Not that global warming is an exact science, but there are some things that require more than a hunch to refute. The sad thing is that he’s the sane one of the candidates.

Yeah, he just guaranteed the Democrats a victory.

So let’s take a look at his constituents.

We can start with streakers in Arkansas.

NASCAR fans got an eyeful over the weekend in Bristol, Tenn., when they spotted a man streaking across a busy parking lot near the track.

Hoof it over to Facebook to join the weird news herd.

Police said they arrested Joshua Greene, 27, from Parkersburg, W.Va., for streaking through the lot off Route 394 Saturday afternoon.

“I’m walking up through here and here he comes, back up and stops in front of the band waving and spinning in circles and stuff,” explained Tim Lee, a witness, to WCYB-TV.

Police gave chase and caught Greene in a nearby neighborhood.

The incident got even stranger when police officers found Greene’s car. In it, officers said, they discovered Greene’s girlfriend and a furry companion.

“With that we also found that he and a companion were in possession of a raccoon,” said Bristol Police Capt. Matt Austin.

Police called in the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to take the masked animal into custody.

“They said his girlfriend rescued it from a park, but as far as where it actually came from, we couldn’t really say for sure,” Austin said.

Greene is facing charges of public intoxication, indecent exposure and possible additional charges from the wildlife agency.

Who can argue with that?

Well, how about the cops in Miami who arrested Beyonce’s sister over her inflatable banana?

Pop superstar Beyoncé’s sister has accused off-duty Miami Beach police officers of discrimination and pulling a weapon on her during a confrontation over an inflatable banana.

MBPD spokesman Juan Sanchez said the incident began when Solange Knowles was denied access to Cameo Nightclub on Washington Avenue because she was carrying the five-foot inflatable fruit.

Knowles began to complain the reasons for not being allowed access into the club were racially motivated, according to Sanchez, and off-duty officers working at the club escorted her across the street to continue the discussion.

Knowles, 25, shortly made an informal complaint to a sergeant on duty that one of the men pulled a weapon and threatened to deflate the banana.

“A police officer just pulled a weapon on me,” she posted in a nine-message Twitter rant early Sunday morning. “I have done NOTHING illegal, against the law, or anything of the sort.

“I have literally had my last leg with discriminating police! Miami police department will be notified … I am simply tired of police using arrogance, ego and authority as an offense.”

Sanchez said Monday that Knowles would be contacted by internal affairs investigators, and as such the department would have no further comment.

Knowles stated on Twitter that she was publicizing the incident to “raise awareness.”

“I could have left quietly, but I am sick and tired of this scenario being played over and over again,” she wrote. “It is time to do something about it. I am a mother raising a young black child in America. I’m going to die trying!”

You go girl!

But, as you know, if you meet any of these people in court you shouldn’t friend them on Facebook.

No, really, you shouldn’t.

A 22-year-old male juror pleaded guilty to trying to ‘friend’ the female defendant in his case, according to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. Instead of accepting his advances, the woman told her lawyer, who told the judge, who pounded the gavel.

It sounds like a case of eyes locking across a crowded courtroom, at least from the point of view of the juror. After the trial — involving a Tarrant County, Texas car wreck — recessed one day, he tried to link up with the defendant on Facebook. When she rebuffed his request, he suggested it was a case of mistaken identity, but that didn’t hold water.
According to the article, not only does Texas have jury instructions banning jurors from discussing trials on social media, this juror was given a copy of those instructions.

The juror was dismissed from the case, says the Star-Telegram, and his four counts of contempt of court landed him two days of community service in the bailiff’s office.

This isn’t the first case of would-be courtroom friendship turning to disaster on Facebook. Earlier this year, in the UK, a juror friended a defendant, who accepted. Both got slapped with contempt-of-court convictions — and up to two years in prison. By comparison, perhaps, the Texas juror got off easy.

UR Hot txt if u want 2 hv sex

Well, how could anyone find fault with that?

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Who Needs Money? You Don’t.

August 30, 2011 by

All staff members at Nude Hippo are willing to work for food.
All staff members at Nude Hippo are willing to work for food.
You think you need money. You bust your butt day after day to grab a shekel and serve mammon so it may not have occurred to you that you’re wasting your life. After all, what can you possibly accomplish without geld in the bag? I know, I know, you think I’m about to go off on some tree hugging, back to nature, horse-hockey that reeks of stupid. If you’ve read anything I’ve ever posted, at all, you know that will happen two days after the final trump. So why do I even pretend to start one of my glorious blogs by talking about how you don’t need money? Because, with some planning and a little effort, you don’t. And, given the economy we inherited this is something you might wish to read.

Heidemarie Schwermer has dedicated her life to helping others live without money and still be viable parts of the world at large.

Heidemarie Schwermer, a 69-year-old woman from Germany, gave up using money 15 years ago and says she’s been much happier ever since.

Heidemarie’s incredible story began 22 years ago, when she, a middle-aged secondary school teacher emerging from a difficult marriage, took her two children and moved to the city of Dortmund, in Germany’s Ruhr area. One of the first things she noticed was the large number of homeless people, and this shocked her so much that she decided to actually do something about it. She had always believed the homeless didn’t need actual money to be accepted back into society, only a chance to empower themselves by making themselves useful, so she opened a Tauschring (swap shop), called “Gib und Nimm” (Give and Take).

Her small venture was a place where anyone could trade stuff and skills for other things and skills they needed, without a single coin or banknote changing hands. Old clothes could be traded in return for kitchen appliances, and car service rendered in return for plumbing services, and so on. The idea didn’t really attract many of Dortmund’s homeless, because, as some of them told her to her face, they didn’t feel an educated middle-class woman could relate to their situation. Instead, her small shop was assaulted by many of the city’s unemployed and retired folk eager to trade their skills and old stuff for something they needed. Heidemarie Schwermer’s Tauschring eventually became somewhat of a phenomenon in Dortmund and even prompted its creator to ask herself some questions about the life she was living.

She started to realize she was living with a lot of stuff she didn’t really need and initially decided not to buy anything else without giving something away. Then she realized how unhappy she was with her work and made the connection between this feeling and the physical symptoms (backache and constant illness) she was feeling, so she decided to take up other jobs. She began washing dishes for 10 Deutchmarks an hour, and despite many were telling her things like “You went to university, you studied to do this?”, she felt good about herself, and didn’t feel like she should be valued more because of her studies than someone working in a kitchen. By 1995, the Tauschring had changed her life so much that she was spending virtually nothing, as everything she needed seemed to find its way into her life.

So in 1996. she took the biggest decision of her life: to live without money. Her children had moved out so she sold the apartment in Dortmund and decided to live nomadically, trading things and services for everything she needed. It was supposed to be a 12-month experiment, but found herself loving it so much that she just couldn’t give it up. 15 years later, she still lives according to the principles of Gib und Nimm, doing various chores for accommodation in the houses of various members of the Tauschring, and loving every minute of it. Schwermer has written two books about her experience of living without money and asked her publisher to give the money to charity so it can make many people happy instead of just one. She’s just happy being healthier and better off than ever before.

All of her belongings fit into a single-back suitcase and a rucksack, she has emergency savings of €200 and any other money she comes across, she gives away. Heidemarie doesn’t even have health insurance as she didn’t want to be accused of stealing from the state, and says she relies on the power of self-healing whenever she gets a little sick.

Most Americans know that health insurance is a silly idea and no one needs it, so there’s nothing to worry about there. As for the rest, it can be done. In many ways, since I became an independent contractor in November of 2009, I’ve been doing many of the things she does. The major difference being I have to pay rent and feed my cats.

And yet, I manage.

Listen to Bill McCormick on WBIG AM 1280, every Thursday morning around 9:10!

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I Love You So Much …..

August 29, 2011 by

I'll hug you and love you and squeeze you until your entrails fall out!
I'll hug you and love you and squeeze you until your entrails fall out!
We live in an odd world. Much of it is normal, we see what we expect to see. But, somehow, when it comes to affairs of the heart, people are suddenly skewed in ways hitherto undreamed of. One minute it’s all hearts and flowers and then there’s the police and then you’re off to do a featured spot on Springer. What’s worse is that I’m talking about normal people here. As it turns out there’s a whole subset of humanity I’d rather not know.

Let’s start with an easy one. I like yogurt. A lot of people do. It’s a fun little snack that doesn’t kill you as quickly as other fun little snacks. I’ve even been to a yogurt shop and seen a cute girl behind the counter. So far I have everything in common with the guy I’m about to mention. However, at no point in my life did I ever knock the counter girl out, strip her naked and stuff her in a box.

Hopefully you haven’t either. Yet, according to the LA Times, that’s what this freak did.

A Monterey Park yogurt shop owner is facing kidnapping and attempted murder charges for abducting a female employee and keeping her inside a box in a soundproof room, prosecutors said Friday.

Robert Yachen Lee alleged lured the employee to a storage room above O My Yogurt on south Atlantic Boulevard early Wednesday, knocked her unconscious and then — after removing her clothing and dressing her in an adult diaper — placed her in a box, authorities said.

The victim told authorities that when she came to, she was bound with tape and had a collar around her neck.

Prosecutors believe Lee planned the kidnapping, because the storage room had recently been soundproofed.

The woman was able to free herself and escape to a nearby optometrist’s office, where she alerted police.

Lee appeared briefly in Alhambra Superior Court on Friday afternoon. Bail was set at $10 million.

Yeah, a cardboard box may not have been the best call in a situation like this. But, for the sake of the young lady, I’m glad this guy was a moron. Things could have gone much worse.

For example, this guy just outside Detroit found his drug buddy dead in his living room, or so he claims, so he cut her up into tiny pieces and stored her neatly around his house.

The 52-year-old man suspected in the death of a 32-year-old Gibraltar woman confessed to dismembering his neighbor’s body, but said he did not kill her, Police Chief Raymond Canterbury said Friday.

Police confronted the suspect Wednesday after he was seen on video surveillance buying cleaning supplies at a nearby supermarket, according to a source close to the investigation.

Canterbury said the suspect confessed as soon as police confronted him at a local business.

“We don’t know how she died, still,” Canterbury said. “He’s saying that they were doing drugs and she was just dead … in a chair.”

Canterbury said the man admitted to police that he cut up Pam Prpich’s body, and directed officers to her torso stored in his bedroom closet. Prpich had been missing since Aug. 12.

“We had 10 detectives or so and none of them would have said, ‘Yeah, this is where she was killed,’ ” he said of how clean the closet was kept. “You would have looked in that closet and shut the door and said, ‘She’s not in here.’ ”

The suspect’s 53-year-old brother said he believes his brother may have panicked. He said his brother is an ex-con who was adamant about not returning to prison.

“I think he was desperate,” the suspect’s brother said.

The suspect remained in jail Friday, with a warrant pending with the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office.

Now, with most of her daughter’s remains found, Cheryl Prpich said she can prepare to say good-bye.

She said the funeral is planned for Sept. 10 at the Uht Funeral Home in Westland.

Pam Prpich’s brother Michael Prpich was the first to discover the remains of his sister.

He was searching the creek behind the family’s Gibraltar home in the Bella Vista condominiums Aug. 18 when canoeists pointed out a suitcase. The body parts were found inside.

“When we get the autopsy and toxicology report, we’ll know what happened,” Cheryl Prpich said Friday. “It was a great relief to me that they had somebody in custody and were able to locate some of her remains.”

Cheryl Prpich said the suspect was the last number called from her daughter’s cell phone, according to call logs. She said she doesn’t know whether to believe the man’s assertions that her daughter died while doing drugs.

But “we’re not discounting it as possible,” she said.

Kids, if you’re playing along at home today, here’s a tip for you; another neat way to avoid going to jail is to simply call 911 and tell them there’s been an accident and your friend is dead. No one will be happy about it but you won’t be trying to raise bail from a bunch of guys selling $10 baggies.

Still, as bad as this was it was nothing compared to the love triangle nightmare that unfolded in Okanogo, Washington.

An Okanogan woman shot and killed a woman with whom she had a romantic relationship, then later died, apparently from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, investigators say.

A third woman shot during the Thursday evening incident in the north-central Washington town is listed in satisfactory condition today at a Spokane hospital.

The Okanogan County Sheriff’s Office said Shelly L. Payton, 42, shot and killed Rene J. Menard, 49, at the home they shared at 522 N. Second Ave. in Okanogan.

Payton and Menard had a tenuous romantic relationship that had ended some time ago, neighbors told The Omak-Okanogan County Chronicle. Earlier in the day Menard told Payton she wanted to move out, neighbors told the newspaper.

Payton arrived at the house around 5 p.m. and confronted Menard, who was there with Catrina M. Fling, 39, a Riverside, Wash., resident and friend of the couple.

Payton and Menard argued inside the house, then Payton walked out, went to her vehicle and grabbed a 40-caliber semi-automatic pistol, and came back inside, Sheriff Frank T. Rogers said today.

When Fling began to dial 911, Payton shot her in the lower abdomen, and Fling collapsed on the floor, Rogers said. The injured woman still was able to reach 911 dispatchers to report what was happening, he said.

It appears a struggle broke out between Payton and Menard when another shot was fired from Payton, Rogers said. The scene indicates Menard was holding on to Payton from behind and a single shot went through both women, he said.

Menard died at the scene and Payton later died at Mid-Valley Hospital in Omak, the sheriff said.

Neighbors said Payton has a teenage son who was at football practice at the time of the shooting.

Fling was airlifted to Providence Sacred Heart Medical Center in Spokane, where the hospital this morning said she’s in satisfactory condition.

Detectives also are investigating a report from the McDonald’s in Omak that around 2 p.m. Thursday, Payton walked into the restaurant, pulled out a pistol, stuck it in the chest of a woman eating with her children, and pulled the trigger. The weapon was not loaded, according to witnesses, who said Payton stated the next time there would be bullets in the gun.

Law enforcement was not called at the time of that incident but were notified later, after restaurant managers heard about the shooting, the sheriff said.

Detectives are pulling security tapes from the McDonald’s and are looking for the woman involved to interview her.

Payton, who had a military background, and Fling both worked at Walmart, neighbors said. Menard was the manager at Caso’s grocery store and provided karaoke entertainment in the area.

Mike Kostic, manager of The Cariboo Inn, where Menard spun karaoke records, told the Chronicle, “I came back here and told them to shut the bar down,” he said. “We closed down early because nobody really wanted to work.”

The Cariboo turned into a makeshift memorial Thursday night as friends and family gathered to reflect on the day’s events.

“She was the nicest person I ever met,” Kostic said of Menard. “She just had a big heart. It’s really a shame. We were in shock. Nobody here really expected it.”

You know, this is the first karaoke related murder I’ve ever written about. I sincerely hope it’s the last. Sadly, the whole WalMart part is getting cliched.

Listen to Bill McCormick on WBIG AM 1280, every Thursday morning around 9:10!

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Drive Me Crazy

August 27, 2011 by

No, this is NOT the correct technique for parallel parking.
No, this is NOT the correct technique for parallel parking.
Once upon a time, in a land far far away, I took a course called Driver’s Ed. It was an exciting moment in my young life. I learned how to use turn signals, how to keep my hands at 10 & 2 and how to tell the difference between forward and backward. That’s all important information for drivers to know. Later, after I got my permit and prepared to enter the world of adult responsibility, my uncle Lefty taught me how to street race, how to hide a nitrous tank and why you needed to keep extra towels in the back seat. Not for him and I, of course, neither of us swing that way but it was still good info for a young man to know when he couldn’t afford a hotel and needed to get his horn on. As you can see, I had a well rounded education when it came to cars. Oddly enough the one thing I never got good at was repairing cars. I could change a tire, spark plugs and the oil but, after that, I was useless as suspenders on a snake. Even so that never stopped me from driving.

However, there are others who did not have my advantages. They get behind the wheel and they probably shouldn’t. Other people don’t get behind the wheel at all and still manage to cause problems. For example, cops in Shelton, Connecticut had to tase a guy over parking violations after he called police to report his violations.

Yes, true American genius in action.

A Connecticut man was so upset about the lack of parking enforcement in his town that he parked his car illegally in a handicapped space and called police over a dozen times. When they showed up, they subdued him with a stun gun and arrested him.

Shelton police say they had to use the stun gun on Michael Andes Thursday morning after he became combative and screamed at officers that they weren’t doing their job. He was charged with breach of peace, interfering with an officer and was given a parking ticket.

Authorities say Andes first called police at 2 a.m. and yelled at a dispatcher.

Andes posted $1,000 bail and is due in court Sept. 6. There’s no phone listing for Andes. It’s unclear if he has a lawyer.

While, on the one hand, you can sympathize with his problem, especially if you live in a city where morons park in front of your home illegally and screw with your ability to …… never mind, you know what I mean. It was still a bad idea to aggravate the cops.

They have guns and radios and know how to use them. My grandfather used to say “Argue with the guy in the dress not the guy with the gun.” That was good advice then and is good advice now.

Other people do get behind the wheel and seem to misunderstand the basic rules of the road. For example, you’re supposed to keep the tires on the ground. Cops in Kansas City, Missouri had to remove an SUV from an attic.

Six people inside a Kansas City home were shocked to find an SUV sitting in their attic after hearing a loud boom

The residents of the home said they heard the loud boom and found the SUV in their attic at about 8:30 p.m.

“We were in my daughter’s room watching TV when we heard the noise,” said Michelle Brown.

Brown said her son discovered the SUV as he was leaving to go to the store.

“He said, ‘Mama, there’s a truck in the ceiling!” Brown said. “And I’m like, ‘A truck in the ceiling?’ And we all ran out of the house.”

When police arrived, they found three people inside the SUV.

“And the police came and they pulled some people out of the truck because they were still in the truck,” Brown said. “I don’t know how they got up there, but they’re up there!”

Brown was home with five children when the SUV flew into the house at 43rd Street and Kensington Avenue.

Police said they believe the driver of the SUV was speeding north on Kensington Avenue and drove up onto the lawn in front of the home, which acted like a ramp, sending the vehicle into the home’s attic.

The three people in the SUV were taken to a hospital for treatment of their injuries. They’re expected to recover, police said.

Police department spokesman Officer Darin Snapp said the driver of the SUV, Kristopher K. Ploof, 20, of Grandview, was charged on suspicion of driving under the influence and careless driving.

The Red Cross helped the Brown family find temporary shelter.

Really? There might have been chemical additives in his blood? I never would have guessed.

But, I’d rather have that sucker crash into my home than what slammed into a home in Gaines, New York; 300 gallons of sewage and 200 gallons of water.

Oh, joy.

Police say they’re trying to determine what caused a septic tanker truck to crash off a western New York road and slam through the wall of a home before coming to rest in the living room.

The Orleans County Sheriff’s Department says the homeowners weren’t home when the truck driven by 35-year-old Russell Calkins of Albion crashed Thursday morning in Gaines, a rural town 30 miles west of Rochester.

Calkins apparently lost control of the truck, which crossed the center line, hit a stop sign, and continued moving until it crashed through a garage attached to the ranch home and ended up in the living room, according to NBC affiliate WHEC-TV.

Calkins was transported to a Rochester hospital for treatment.

Police say the truck was carrying 200 gallons of fresh water, some of which spilled out, and a separate load of 300 gallons of waste product, which didn’t leak.

The home was declared uninhabitable after the crash, WHEC reported.

Yeah, you’re sitting down watching an exciting rerun of Wheel of Fortune when suddenly a rolling septic tank lands in your living room. That has to be a moment of fun. On the other hand you have to imagine the fun you’ll have trying to explain the situation to your insurance company.

“Hello, Super Cheap Discount Insurance Company, how may I ignore you?”

“My house just got run over by a septic tank.”

Click.

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Legendary Stuff

August 26, 2011 by

Yes, this is nice and all, but could someone please pass the salt?
Yes, this is nice and all, but could someone please pass the salt?
We love our legends. We wrap in mythos even the most mundane and trivial things. Something cannot just be, it must be larger, better, more than anything of its time. I think that explains why when researchers admitted they’d actually found Atlantis that people flocked away from the story. What fun is there knowing that Atlantis was just a kingdom in the south of Spain with a big army? Oh, sure, archaeologists are going to go nuts over this find for quite some time but Joe and Jane Sixpack are going to stick to their aliens or psychic friends or whatever. They find no romance in the truth.

Which is a pity.

But not all legends are lost in the mists of time. Some are appearing right before us. For example, bars in Michigan, upset over the smoking ban that is killing their businesses, are now banning politicians. That is legendary in a very cool way.

Or how about the memorial in Ohio that keeps getting vandalized? Police set up a stake out only to find out that all the little flags were being stolen by a squirrel. No arrests have been made as of this writing.

Obviously no article on legends would be worth reading without a glance over at a guy who accidentally got an air cannon stuck in his butt and it inflated him to near fatal proportions.

I have read the article twice and still have no clue how a large pipe, which is what an air cannon is, carrying 300lbs PSI of air ended up in his anus. But, if you’re going to go, that is certainly one legendary way to try and exit this mortal coil.

Of course, what article about legends would be complete without a look back at one of the most persistent legends of all, King Arthur. Most scientists contend that the story is mere allegory for a culmination of events and people. Others contend that it is completely fabricated as there is no evidence of any kind to support it. Certainly not current to the time.

But …… wait.

Scientists in Scotland have finally been granted permission to conduct a noninvasive search of an area long associated with Arhturian lore. And, guess what? They found the freaking round table.

The King’s Knot, a geometrical earthwork in the former royal gardens below Stirling Castle, has been shrouded in mystery for hundreds of years.

Though the Knot as it appears today dates from the 1620s, its flat-topped central mound is thought to be much older.

Writers going back more than six centuries have linked the landmark to the legend of King Arthur.

Archaeologists from Glasgow University, working with the Stirling Local History Society and Stirling Field and Archaeological Society, conducted the first ever non-invasive survey of the site in May and June in a bid to uncover some of its secrets.

Their findings were show there was indeed a round feature on the site that pre-dates the visible earthworks.

Historian John Harrison, chair of the SLHS, who initiated the project, said: “Archaeologists using remote-sensing geophysics, have located remains of a circular ditch and other earth works beneath the King’s Knot.

“The finds show that the present mound was created on an older site and throws new light on a tradition that King Arthur’s Round Table was located in this vicinity.”

Stories have been told about the curious geometrical mound for hundreds of years — including that it was the Round Table where King Arthur gathered his knights.

Around 1375 the Scots poet John Barbour said that “the round table” was south of Stirling Castle, and in 1478 William of Worcester told how “King Arthur kept the Round Table at Stirling Castle”.

Sir David Lindsay, the 16th century Scottish writer, added to the legend in 1529 when he said that Stirling Castle was home of the “Chapell-royall, park, and Tabyll Round”.

It has also been suggested the site is partly Iron Age or medieval, or was used as a Roman fort.

Extensive work on the royal gardens was carried out in the early 17th century for Charles I, when the mound is thought to have taken its current form.

The first known record of the site being called the King’s Knot is from 1767, by which time it was being leased for pasture.

Locals refer to the grassy earthworks as the “cup and saucer”, but aerial photographs taken in 1980 showed three concentric ditches beneath and around the King’s Knot mound, suggesting an earthwork monument had preceded it.

The new survey — funded by Historic Scotland and Stirling City Heritage Trust — used the latest scientific techniques to showing lost structures and features up to a metre below the ground.

It also revealed a series of ditches south of the main mound, as well as remains of buildings, and more recent structures, including modern drains which appear at the northern end of the gardens.

Mr Harrison, who has studied the King’s Knot for 20 years, said: “It is a mystery which the documents cannot solve, but geophysics has given us new insights.

“Of course, we cannot say that King Arthur was there, but the feature which surrounds the core of the Knot could explain the stories and beliefs that people held.”

Archaeologist Stephen Digney, who coordinated the project, said: “The area around Stirling Castle holds some of the finest medieval landscapes in Europe.

“This investigation is an exciting first step in a serious effort to explore, explain and interpret them. The results so far suggest that Scotland’s monarchs integrated an ancient feature into their garden, something we know happened in other countries too.

“We are looking forward to the next stage in September when we hope to refine some of the details.”

Dr. Kirsty Owen, Cultural Heritage Adviser at Historic Scotland, added: “The project has the potential to add to our knowledge of the landscape context of the medieval and early modern occupation of Stirling Castle.

“The ditches identified may intriguingly be part of historically documented earlier garden features, or if prehistoric in origin could add to our scant knowledge of prehistoric activity at Stirling Castle.

“We look forward to seeing the results of the next phase of investigations.”Futher work including a ground-penetrating radar survey, is now planned to take place next month to find out more.

A small display of the interim results can be seen close to the site at the Smith Museum.

Like with the discovery of Atlantis, there has been no sign of magical or alien artifacts, just the kind of stuff that could have been built by people in the 6th century in England. But, even so, this is kind of cool.

The legend of King Arthur, his knights and the love of his life, Guinevere, has been handed down in one form or another for almost 1,600 years. I’m impressed if people pay attention to what I write for 16 minutes. Let’s face it, this story has staying power.

I don’t know when, or even if, they will be allowed to dig on the site or if technology is getting to the point they may not have to. But this is one story that I’ll be keeping an eye on. After all, what red blooded boy didn’t dream of saving a damsel in distress and then getting lots of rescue nooky as a prize?

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