Other Crap

Farmer convicted of feeding his employee to lions.

• I was in Zimbabwe in the mid 90s, doing a project for Mobil, back when there was far less tension in that country. I was planning a weekend with a travel agent who asked me, "Golf or Victoria Falls?" I said, "I thought I could do both. Isn't there a course right there?" "Yes," she said, "but it is closed because of the drought." "I never thought of that," I replied lamely, "I guess they can't keep it playable without water." "That's not the problem," she explained, "because they can still keep it lush with water from the river if they need to. The problem is that when there is a drought, the lions expand their feeding territory, and their expanded area includes the golf course."