Posted on 08/24/2004 2:50:56 PM PDT by mingusthecat
NICOSIA (Reuters) - Dozens of stray cats and their fleas put Cyprus state radio off the air Tuesday as fumigation experts were called in.
Cyprus Broadcasting Corporation (CyBC) Radio 3 program said only songs and news bulletins would be broadcast for the next 24 hours on all three of the CyBC's radio channels due to "an immediate need for spraying."
"The problem with the cats is causing a terrible situation, there hundreds of them and they are running into the studios and over the roof," said one reporter who declined to be named.
"At one point, one cat fell through the roof and landed on someone's head," he said. "They have made a mess and broken everything in my office."
Staff said they were told there was a possibility the three CyBC stations could stay off the air for as long as three days.
Cats have been roaming the CyBC grounds for decades and now number more than 100.
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My guess is that there is also a rodent problem.
I thought for a moment that Brian Setzer had formed a new group whose music was so bad it killed a radio station. . . . .
On another note, CyBC management wishes to extend a warm welcome to the China Palace opening next door.
I have to agree with that. If there was no food source, the kitties would move away. And there would certainly be fewer of them. Animals, domestic cats included, will kill offspring to protect sources of food from dwindling.
"We're gonna rock this town, tear this place apart..."
hehehehe . . . . very good.
Archaeologists on Cyprus have excavated the 9,500-year-old remains of a cat (at bottom in top photograph) buried with a human (at top in top photograph) and decorative artifacts. At bottom, the cat skeleton is shown in a plaster shell during excavation.
Top photograph courtesy P. Gérard/Science, bottom photograph courtesy K. Debue/Science
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LOL!
Give me an idea to shut down -- Air America.... How about "Hairball America".
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