Keith Szablewski, of Johnston City, shot and killed the deer in November during the first weekend of the shotgun season, and experts are calling it a potential world record.
Don't misunderstand me, I think the Christmas tree lighting ceremonies that we do here in Rockford at Stroll on State, Nicholas Conservatory, and several other places are really well done. It's just that a countdown, followed by the tree lighting, has trouble competing with a giant Rube Goldberg machine.
Are you familiar with "slacklining?" I'll admit that up until this morning, I wasn't. But, now that we've got a potential new world record, and some crazy video of the attempt, I've become familiar enough with it to tell you there's absolutely no way I'm ever doing it...
As I often point out to my kids, cameras have changed just a little bit from when I was their age.
All of you who remember when it was all a mystery as to what was on the camera until you had the film "developed," that you had to hope that no one blinked (because there were no re-dos), and that we were thrilled when the Polaroid One-Step Camera was introduced, can back me up on this one.
If you need to be somewhere in a real hurry, Japan's record-setting Maglev train is just the ticket.
From CNN:
A Japan Railway maglev train hit 603 kilometers per hour (374 miles per hour) on an experimental track in Yamanashi Tuesday, setting a decisive new world record...