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Generally speaking, people don’t fly with out some kind of machine keeping them aloft. You know, like an airplane, a helicopter or an Acme rocket with a pair of roller skates. Non-generally speaking, some bat-winged guy flew 1000′ over Coney Island with tons of witnesses as reported by the New York Times.
Our initial thoughts are that it is a hoax, because all the witnesses say the thing was flying towards New Jersey. If this was true, it would have been flying anywhere but New Jersey.
A long, long time ago the New York Times printed a pretty weird story about a man with bat wings and frog legs soaring through the air over Coney Island. The date was September 12, 1880. They say he’d also been reported sailing over St Louis and Kentucky too.
To give you an excerpt from that article:
“One day last week a marvelous apparition was seen near Coney Island. At the height of at least a thousand feet in the air a strange object was in the act of flying toward the New Jersey coast. It was apparently a man with bat?s wings and improved frog?s legs. The face of the man could be distinctly seen, and it wore a cruel and determined expression. The movements made by the object closely resembled those of a frog in the act of swimming with his hind legs and flying with his front legs.”
We’re not afraid to tell you that we have no idea what ‘improved frog’s legs’ are – but it sounds delicious. We assume there was probably some batter involved. And a flash fryer.
This isn’t the first time we’ve told you about flying people, if you recall. Remember the floating Yogi? That was a strange story with baffling implications. What about the evil witch that tried to rip off the skin of a Mexican police officer’s face? She had to use some flying powers to pull that one off too.
That New York Times article spirals into talk about some preacher or something, who is obviously using a new technology to scope out the sins of cities he was about to preach in. That’s probably true. Voyeurism has long been the impetus to invention.
Which reminds us – we need to get back to the lab to work on our giant machine that renders retirement-home bathroom walls transparent. We’re already working on the patent so nobody steal that idea.
Also please tell us where you’re currently housing your ancestors.
For no specific reason.