"America has finally got to us"

It is not so much that a lake disappeared. I mean, that sort of thing happens all the time. God just pulled the plug on this particular bathtub, is what happened. Could happen to Lake Michigan tomorrow, which if it does, hey good on it.

MOSCOW (Reuters) - A Russian village was left baffled Thursday after its lake disappeared overnight.

NTV television showed pictures of a giant muddy hole bathed in summer sun, while fishermen from the village of Bolotnikovo looked on disconsolately.

No, I don't mind it when lakes go walkabout. Trees disappearing under the earth, no problem.

What bugs me is this:

"I am thinking, well, America has finally got to us," said one old woman, as she sat on the ground outside her house.

Which, of course, is entirely correct. But how did she know? We must guard our lake-vanishing technology much more closely in future.

Ala-Kazam,

Wiggy