What Do Illicit Drug Users, Pets And Children…

EPA spokeswoman Virginia Thompson said instead of flushing pills, people should mix them with old coffee grinds and throw them away so they are not attractive to children, pets or garbage-sifting illicit drug users.

To Flush Or Not To Flush? [NBC 10]

Sometimes, It Can Be Too Big

The following is an ad currently on Craigslist:

i HAVE A 3 FOOT AMERICAN ALLIGATOR ALWAYS HANDLED . HE’S JUST GETTING TO BIG FOR MY SPACE . IF ANYONE IS INTERESTED PLEASE LET ME KNOW

I just came up with a new personal rule: Don’t buy alligators from people who type in all caps.

AMERICAN ALLIGATOR [Craigslist]
Photo by Fritz Geller-Grimm, licensed via Creative Commons

Duck Caretakers Can See Into Your Soul

There’s an interesting pet ad on Craigslist right now:

Wildlife care facility in Roxborough looking to place an adorable, friendly domestic duck to a good home with a pond and other ducks. It is a juvenile, flightless domestic black duck. It needs the companionship of other ducks. Free to any good home that meets the requirements. If you plan to do any harm to this duck, don’t bother contacting us because I will be able to tell when I interview you.

Don’t you dare go into your interview holding a Nintendo zapper. She’ll know you’re not a fan of Hogan’s Alley.

Domestic Duck free to good home [Craigslist]

Quickies: Murder Was The Case

• Your WTF Crime of The Day: Two Upper Darby teens are charged with hunting down and killing a man who mooned them after they taunted him for trashpicking. Oh, and the one suspect clipped out the story in the paper and saved it. First offense for both suspects, which led to this quote from commish Michael Chitwood Sr.: “It’s a hell of a first offense.” [Daily News]

• Pinch me: Gavin Floyd continues his impressive spring. His spring ERA’s now at 2.08. Could this team really be better than we expect? Remaining “cautiously optimistic” is the best bet for now, I think. [AP/Yahoo!]

• A rare $2,000 bird stolen from a Burlington County, N.J., store has been found safe in — where else? — a Northeast Philly dumpster at Grant and the Boulevard. [CBS 3]

• White House Chief of Staff Andy Card has resigned, which means that we can expect him to be implicated in some sort of drug-and/or-puppy-smuggling scandal any day now. [CNN.com]