Piranha, or Pacu?
Like something strait out of a movie I saw once on Dishnetwork, a piranha was allegedly spotted in a North Carolina river.
Far from their native habitat in South America and illegal to own, seeing a piranha in a Carolina river would be quite unusual. John Bobbitt is the man who caught the supposed predatory fish, and he claims that a local wildlife officer agreed that his catch was indeed a piranha.
However, fish curator Wayne Starnes with the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences thinks that fish is probably most likely someone’s pet Pacu that was dumped in the river.
Pacu are tropical fish that are mostly herbivores, but will dine on the occasional fish or insect. While closely related to the piranha, they are harmless to humans.
As You Like It In North Carolina
The stars are coming out for Carolinian Shakespeare Festival this summer, but not the usual ones you can catch by watching movies on DISH Network. These are stars that grace the stage, and will now be gracing our festival in the main presentation that will be Shakespeare's As You Like It on August 5-22 at the illustrious Athens Theatre on Pollock Street in New Bern.
This year marks New Bern's 300 year anniversary, and the festival organizers wanted to do something really outstanding. I think they may have got it right with their choice of production that will feature Rivka Borek, Jonathan Blakeley, Kacie Leblong, Jeremy Sabol, and many local artists.
You can vie for a glimpse of greatness as well-known international performers of the stage bring joy and music to your night during what has been described by some as the Shakespearean equivalent of a modern day musical.
Dog Sticks Close to Two Dogs Stuck In Hole
Like something you’d see on Animal Planet, which is part of DISH Network basic programming, a tender scene unfolded when a dog came to the rescue of two other dogs in North Carolina.
The troubled twosome began the day quite ordinarily, I assume, before falling into a 6-foot hole. Perhaps one jumped in after the other, or, one could have pushed the other in and then jumped, I don’t know. What I do know is that these two canines were in hole and a mixed breed shepherd laid down next to a fence near the hole and wouldn’t budge.
This attracted the attention of a landscaping crew with Greensboro’s Field Operations Department, who found the two trapped pooches near where the shepherd was lying.
The dogs were pulled from the hole and taken to the county animal center for evaluation.
North Carolina Not Safe From Spill
If you're planning on vacationing on the East Coast this summer, you might want to pay attention to news channels carried by DISH Network for any beach closures due to the oil spill that continues to threaten the existence of tourism as we know it.
According to computer simulations produced by the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), ocean currents could carry oil past the Gulf of Mexico to the eastern shoreline, as far north as Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. Simulations suggested that once oil entered the Gulf's "Loop Current", it would take mere weeks before it reached Florida's Atlantic shores.
BP has already started paying for ads promoting tourism to affected states as more and more vacationers are looking elsewhere to spend their money.
Cat Killer Wants Job Back
He won't be responding to alerts put out by your ADT Home Security system anytime soon, but N.C. trooper Shawn C. Houston wants his job back after being fired for shooting a neighbor's cat.
Kittens are dangerous. Just ask Houston, who shot a 5 month old kitten after catching it in a trap he set, an effort to stop animals from climbing on his vehicles. The kitten scratched Houston when he attempted to remove it from the steel trap he had set and baited with ham. So he shot it. I don't know about you, but I feel much safer having a ferocious kitten off the streets. Mewor!
Rowdy, the moniker of our deceased furry fiend, belonged to Houston's next-door neighbor, Andrea Evans. Evans said that the cat was a birthday present for her son.
Learning what had happened to Rowdy, Evans called the Alexander County Sheriff's Department to file a complaint. According to state records, the Highway Patrol fired Houston on January 22, 2010.
