Flaming Streakers

Headline: Bright lights reported over Midwest skies

From southeastern Wisconsin to as far as Des Moines, Iowa and St. Louis, people reported seeing balls of fire, possibly meteors, streaking across the sky Sunday night.

Goodness gracious!

It’s not so much the great balls of fire that shake my nerves and rattle my brain, but mostly the fact that there is actually a county in Wisconsin called Winnebago.

Does this mean everyone in town either lives in or, at least, owns and operates one of those classic, bad-boy, motor homes?

As if the Wal-Mart parking lot didn’t have enough problems. Makes me wonder how many wrecks they have on the hour?

Come to think of it, I’ll bet close-up photos would reveal those flaming balls of light weren’t meteors, but really, propane tanks that had been launched without anyone’s knowledge after a minor fender bender.

Hank Hill would roll over in his cartoon grave if he knew what was going on.

I’ll even go so far as to say one of those recreational vehicles is still floating around in outer space after having been rear-ended at an intersection.

But there’s no sense in investigating this phenomenon. No matter how much you comb the desert, you still ain’t gonna find shit.