Don't know whether to laugh, cry, get truly enraged and go hunt the little mongrels down or what.
Last evening I was called out on an counseling matter with a young couple who have been ostracized from both families and the J.W. Religion because their new born baby boy was born with the small stub of a rudimentary tail.
The J.W. Elders Council stated that the baby was conceived when the young lady let herself be seduced by the Devil and as a result the child is the Anti-Christ incarnate and MUST be turned over to the J.W. High Council immediately or the world as we know it will be destroyed.
New Mum and Dad, thankfully let parental emotions, etc, etc, take control, told the J.W. Church where they can go, how far to travel and where to get off, the only thing they needed counseling for, imo, was the decision they need to make as to whether or not have the 'tail stub' removed surgically now or later when Bubs is a bit older.
They've opted, at present for removal A.S.A.P. since it can be done with a local anaesthetic when a child/baby is a small as this very handsome you lad is and there is less trauma associated with it than there would be later in life.
BUT that is NOT why I'm in confused state.
While I was away from home, there was a short power failure localized.in my area of town only.
During the time, according to a number of my neighbours about 35 minutes maximum, it appears that some low-down Scum-bag, Toe-rags decided to enter my front yard, snatch 15 of the 16 surviving Rose cuttings I had growing in pots and take off with them.
Thankfully, they did NOT look around as well as they could have and missed the pot with my cutting of a thorn-less Rose growing strong and healthy in it.
Consider the retail price of buying an established thorn-less rose bush and planting it yourself, a nice little $ 60.00 per bush btw, I'm glad they missed mine but totally aggro that they stole the others.
Tow-rags not toe-rags.
I am not a spelling fascist, but it just gives me an excuse to tell the amusing story of the words origins.
It seems that a, tow-rag, was a piece of waste rag or rope you would use to wipe your bum on shipboard, when toilet paper was scarce, ( or as worn by ladies once per month). You then dropped it over the side attached to a line, to wash it through in the sea ready for the next use.
Out my way we call them Toe-rags because they are only good for cleaning the sweaty muck from between someone else's toes.
Catch them, strip them naked, find a very large patch of particularly prickly brambles, and them all them into the middle of it.
The power failure stopped my security cameras from getting the best pics of them but my WiFi rechargable ones got a few good shots of them though, Those are in the hands of the local Blue-bottles atm.