07-06-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On the 6th of July in the year 2024, an most peculiar phenomenon occurred on the border between Montenegro and Albania. It began as any other morning with the border patrol officers embarking on their daily routines of inspecting vehicles and travelers passing between the two nations. However, around half past nine, the officers noticed something drifting lazily across the borderline into Montenegro. At first glance it appeared to be a rather large beach ball, yet upon closer inspection they saw it was in fact an egg. Not just any egg mind you, but one nearly as big as a small automobile!

The patrolmen cautiously approached the massive ovum to investigate further. One tapped it with his nightstick and was surprised by how hard its shell felt. That's when they noticed thin cracks beginning to form along its surface. Within moments the cracks had spread all over and with a loud POP! the shell exploded outward in chunks. From within emerged a confused and dizzy creature the likes of which had never before been seen. It had the body and flapping wings of an oversized songbird but with the face of a duck and legs like a flamingo. The strange beast shook its head and looked around with curious eyes at the baffled onlookers. After letting out an unearthly cross between a quack and tweet, it flapped its cumbersome wings and launched unsteadily into the sky. The officers watched open-mouthed as it disappeared over the treeline, beginning what would surely be a most unusual life. Word of the extraordinary discovery spread rapidly and speculation ran rampant about this mysterious new arrival and what it could possibly portend for the future. One thing was for certain, it had been an morning none present would soon forget.