August 3, 2006

• Back in Tokyo!

  I got back home today, and thanks to one and all that stopped by!  God was very good to me with seating arrangements on the long international flight.  On the way to Newark He sat me next to a very nice Japanese Christian lady and on the way back to Narita He sat me next a very nice Korean Christian gentleman and his son.

  
  

  I will have to get more pictures up, but in the meantime here is a story about a dog with good taste.  Yeah, I knew what had been done when I saw the button in the ear in the "before" picture.

  
  

  Guard Dog Goes 'Berserk,' Shreds Elvis Presley's Teddy Bear

  
  

  

  
  

  
  

  
  
  
  
  
  

  LONDON  - Associated Press - A guard dog has ripped apart a collection of rare teddy bears, including one once owned by Elvis Presley, during a rampage at a children's museum. "He just went berserk," said Daniel Medley, general manager of the Wookey Hole Caves near Wells, England, where hundreds of bears were chewed up Tuesday night by the 6-year-old Doberman pinscher named Barney. Barney ripped the head off a brown stuffed bear once owned by the young Presley during the attack, leaving fluffy stuffing and bits of bears' limbs and heads on the museum floor. The bear, named Mabel, was made in 1909 by the German manufacturer Steiff. The collection, valued at more than $900,000, included a red bear made by Farnell in 1910 and a Bobby Bruin made by Merrythought in 1936. The bear with Elvis connections was owned by English aristocrat Benjamin Slade, who bought it at an Elvis memorabilia auction in Memphis, Tenn., and had loaned it to the museum. "I've spoken to the bear's owner and he is not very pleased at all," Medley said. A security guard at the museum, Greg West, said he spent several minutes chasing Barney before wrestling the dog to the ground.

  Were I the bear's owner I might request that the dog be stuffed!  The bear might be repairable if a bit of patching is done and a new neck joint is inserted.  They might as well replace the eye while they are at it.  Ah, the carnage!!

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