Usually the “latest and greatest” household device has something to do preserving leftovers in vacuum-sealed plastic wrap or slicing and dicing potatoes with more ease than ever. To most of these HOTS’ eyes glaze over. But surfing the Internet the other day HOTS saw a truly clever invention: a kitty litter box that cleans itself. Just plug it into a water hookup and it will automatically wash the reusable litter granules, sanitize, deodorize and dry them, then the box is ready for your cat’s next “visit.” All without those fun human chores that usually attend kitty litter.
Avid readers know HOTS is partial to dogs, but it may be worth it to revisit the cat idea now that the “scooping” problem is taken out of the equation. OK, so the self-cleaning box, even on sale, goes for close to $300. But what price convenience?
HOTS will always check before it sits down after hearing about the 1.8-meter python found lounging in a 10th-floor apartment’s toilet bowl on June 20 in Darwin, Australia, according to Reuters. The python appeared to have been one apartment owner’s pet traveling through the apartment building’s sewage system. “When I saw it I was pretty shocked. It’s one thing in the territory to have a green frog in the toilet, but not a six-foot python,” said Chris Peberdy, a snake catcher. “It would certainly scare you if it came up from the depths of the toilet.” HOTS thinks this sounded like a clos-s-s-s-se encounter!
A voter movement is afoot to rename a San Francisco sewage plant after President George W. Bush, HOTS has learned. A group called the Presidential Memorial Commission has reportedly picked up more than enough signatures to put the ballot initiative to the left-leaning San Francisco public in the November election. If the measure passes, it would rename the city’s Oceanside Treatment Plant as the George W. Bush Sewage Plant. Local Republican leaders are vowing to fight the proposal tooth and nail. HOTS thinks this sewage matter could turn out to be a big mess.
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