Friday, 16 December 2016

Illinois Road



One of the signs you’re a crossword puzzle addict is your vocabulary is packed with short, vowel-filled words that are almost useless anywhere else. The other day I stumbled across one of these words being used for something other than 8 down or 25 across. It was a news story about a group of construction workers in New Zealand with a mystery on their hands. Someone had been repeatedly dragging traffic cones into the middle of the road. They set up a camera to catch the pranksters in the act, and found the culprits were keas: very large and very intelligent members of the parrot family. The construction workers believe the birds have learned to associate stopped cars with being fed. The clever keas have simply worked out a way to get hand-outs on demand.

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