good news at last

it's been a hell of a month, i think the newsroom has been officially cursed with demons. justice is dead and no one is doing the right thing anymore.
let's see, there is the pressure for self-censorship, insane humiliation for taking 5 minutes to eat a sandwich on your desk, the horror of someone less experienced following up on your stories and sucking you for contacts without a thank-you-very-much, long hours, continuously low pay, the call for a pay rise is still unaddressed, persisting stomach problems...and fulfilling a younger straight male friend's fantasy to hang out in a gay bar till 4am when you have to work early the next day...nothing will make you laugh, except the following. check it out, this is good stuff and a guaranteed smile-bringer.

Thank you AP in Berlin.


Associated Press, 26 April
BERLIN - An early-morning bank customer had a bit of a shock when he found a horse at the automatic teller machine.
The horse's owner, identified only as Wolfgang H., had a bit too much to drink the night before and decided to sleep it off inside the bank's heated foyer, police said Tuesday.
The 40-year-old machinist told Bild newspaper he had had "a few beers" with a friend in Wiesenburg, southwest of Berlin, and decided to hit the hay in the bank on his way home.
Confronted with the lack of a hitching-post, he brought the 6-year-old horse, named Sammy, in with him.
When a customer came across the horse and sleeping rider in the bank at 4:15 a.m. Monday, he called police, who then came and woke the owner up and sent him on his way.
No charges were filed, but there might be some cleanup needed: Apparently Sammy made his own after-hours deposit on the carpet.