Ripley's Believe It or Not by Ripley’s Believe It or Not! for September 07, 2013
September 06, 2013
September 08, 2013
Transcript:
Hot Dogs are so called because in the 19th century, the sausages were rumored to contain dog meat! Mercy!! In 1866, a single locust was put on trial in Croatia for the damage caused by its swarm and sentenced to death by drowning! The Spring Temple Buddha statue in Henan, China, is almost 3 times the height of the Statue of Liberty!
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Templo S.U.D. over 10 years ago
Oh, that’s just loco to do the human justice system on an insect. As for the Buddhist statue compared to Lady Liberty, that’s amazing. Hot dogs’ namesake, I thought it was because it looked like the dog breed dachshund.
fixer1967 over 10 years ago
I would not be surprised if hot dogs did have dog meat in them if you went to so parts of the world.
ChessPirate over 10 years ago
Did he have a stink bug or a dung beetle for a lawyer?
Stephen Gilberg over 10 years ago
I think the trial was just an excuse for catharsis by formalizing a demonstrative punishment. As for the statue, heh, it’s unusual to show Buddha standing, but when you’re going for height…
shel4 over 10 years ago
An elephant was once hanged for murder in Tennessee!
RCKJD over 10 years ago
No, the idea that some sports reporter could not spell Dachshund and thus named it Hot Dog is an apocrypha.. Or Urban Legend. Calling them Hot Dogs was in use before then.According to Snopes.com Hot Dog was first used to describe a well dressed man and became then also a term for the well beloved sausage in a bun.http://www.snopes.com/language/stories/hotdog.asp