Budgerigar in the seas, Spiders that mimic ants, Plumber without licence, "Only God can judge me!"

This blog is getting too trivial with odd weird news and all that, may be it is time to crank up on seriousness- may be we are in need or more philosophy, psychology and stuff like that- but not yet.

This is a story that illustrates what it is to be human- compassion, and organised compassion:

A group of British scuba divers in waters half a mile off the coast said they encountered an unusual sight -- an Australia-native bird struggling to swim.

Members of the Torbay Sub-Aqua Club said they were about a half a mile off the coast of England's Berry Head coastline when they spotted a bright blue budgerigar, a bird native to the Australian desert, flapping furiously in the water in an attempt to stay afloat, The Times of London reported Wednesday.

-UPI

It could be a pet that escaped it cage- it has a ring in its leg.

Budgerigars couldn't cope up with man-imposed prisons, may be in a million years or so, the clever jumping spiders will:

Tarantulas and black widows may cause human Miss Muffets to get off their tuffets, but new research shows many spiders themselves run for their lives if they encounter Myrmarachne melanotarsa, a gregarious jumping spider that pretends to be an ant.

...The deception works better if the fake behaves like an ant too, so natural selection appears to have also selected for spiders within this species that act like ants. The end result is a spider that is the spitting image of an ant.

Paula Cushing, president of the American Arachnological Society and curator of invertebrate zoology at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science, told Discovery News that insects and spiders that mimic ants "are well protected from their own potential predators," since "ants are often unpalatable prey for arthropod predators or are not attractive as prey due to their aggressive behavior towards intruders and their ability to sting and bite animals that attack them."

-Discovery

We have an eye on nature's tricks of survival and this is one juicy bit that adds to what we know of it.

Our plumbers are all unlicenced, but it seems, you need one in Chicago-

A Chicago plumbing inspector charged with exposing people working without permits was himself cited for working without permits or licenses, authorities said.

City authorities said James Kendrick, a plumbing inspector assigned to a task force charged with busting workers without permits, accidentally broke a water pipe Sunday while installing a flood-control system at a home without a permit or the required city licenses, The Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.

-UPI

And for cheating, this takes the cake: another tattoo story:

Denton police are investigating a nonpayment complaint filed by a tattoo artist who inscribed "Only God can judge me" on a customer's arm. The Denton Record-Chronicle reported Thursday that the artist finished the work, which included a pair of praying hands, and presented the bill.

The customer Monday offered a credit card, which was declined, then he ran out of the store.

-Yahoo! News

"Only God can judge me" Ha!