08-05-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On August 5th, 2024 in the small town of Beaverlick, Kentucky, a most peculiar event occurred when old Bubba Jenkins found what appeared to be a freshly hatched platypus waddling about in his front yard. Now folks around those parts had never seen anything quite like it, what with platypuses being native only to Australia.

Bubba stared at the strange duckbilled creature in disbelief, unsure of what exactly he was looking at. It had fur like an otter but a broad ducklike bill and webbed feet. Before he could get his wits about him, the sheriff pulled up in her cruiser. "Bubba," she drawled, "you ain't been into the bourbon again have you?" When she spotted the mystery animal herself, even the skeptical sheriff was flabbergasted.

Word of Bubba's backyard beast spread faster than the summer heat through town. Folks flocked to gawk at the improbable site of a platypus outside of its natural habitat. Scientists were flummoxed. How on earth did a neonate platypus end up thousands of miles from home on this otherwise mundane August morning? The lone platypus was taken to the local wildlife reserve for care and study, but to this day, its mysterious appearance in Beaverlick remains an zoological enigma for the history books.