You know, everybody's got problems, and every place has problems, too. There are big-city problems, and there are rural problems.
Here in New York City, we worry about things like subway relay room fires taking out huge chunks of our infrastructure at random, or encounters with unmedicated schizophrenics on the street.
Out in Milford, Nebraska, local officials are relieved to announce that they have managed to extinguish a 2,000 ton mountain of smoldering cowshit that has been burning for four months. (See also: local coverage from the Lincoln, Nebraska Journal Star.)
Now, if you're like me, and you start free-associating on "2,000 ton pile of smoldering cowshit," you're gonna think about these guys (or, to be fair, these guys.) Spontaneous combustion in a feedlot compost heap isn't the first thing that springs to mind.
One thing's for sure: the residents of Milford, Nebraska are breathing easier tonight.
26 February 2005
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