In article <newscache$gdrp3i$b2e$1@news01e.so-net.ne.jp>, Dave
<dgreco@bg9.so-net.ne.jp> wrote:

>     Hi, everyone. I posted a couple of weeks ago about the correlation
> between strange animal behaviour and earthquakes. I was in Nara a few weeks
> ago and noticed that trees were filled with birds and that they were flying
> restlessly amongst each other and in strange formations. The next day, a 5.1
> earthquake struck off the coast of north Wakayama.
>     I am now further convinced that the higher the maginitude of the quake,
> the stranger the animal behaviour.  A few days prior to the 6.8 and 7.4
> earthquakes that struck off the coast of Wakayama, I began to fly and ran
> into several English teachers and we flew restlessly amongst each other and
> in strange formations. Birds began teaching English and getting drunk and
> rowdy at bars, hitting on Japanese women bars and believing the women
> actually liked them when they were just being polite,  enjoying their
> ridiculously high salaries even though they had no experience teaching and
> feeling like the world revolved around them. Fortunately for us, and
> unfortunately for some, the quake struck on Monday and everything went back
> to normal. Was it just me or did anyone else notice this?????

Something tells me the magnitude was not hardly high enough for this
kind of activity.  I fear something larger is on the way...

There are two guys in California that have some of the highest accuracy
in predicting earhquakes. Neither are seismologists or in related
fields: one is a veterinarian and the other is just a garden-variety
kook.

The veterinarian claims that suddenly people are bringing in a lot of
cats with some sort of urinary disorder that produces crystals in the
urine.  When he sees this begin to peak he says an earthquake is coming
and it most frequently does.

The other guy simply reads the lost-and-found section of his local
newspaper and when he sees a spike in runaway dogs and cats he makes
his better-than-average prediction.

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