Good Ole' Alabama  

I like to get random text messages, so I signed up for the "This Day in History" messages from the History Channel. Nothing better than brushing up on my history knowledge. Good convo starter with strangers: "Hey, did you know that today was the day Mata Hari was killed for being a German spy?"

Although I have been receiving these texts for a little while now, the one I received this morning (8:00am sharp) was the most hysterical historical tidbit yet. It's here as follows:

"This Day in History 11/30 1954: 1st modern instance of a meteorite striking a human being occurs in Alabama."

WHAT??

While this is definitely a conversation starter, (or ender depending on how you look at it) I have never asked myself, "Hey, I really want to know when meteors hit people," or "I want to know how stupid people are that they don't move out of the way for a burning piece of rock aimed right at 'em."

I just have to say that I am not exactly surprised that it happened to a resident of Alabama. I mean, come on. Aren't they the same people who claim to see UFOs? Now I'm not saying that I don't believe there are other beings out there in the universe, because I think us people are a little bit too cocky thinking we're the only intelligent life form out there. Which, it would actually comfort me to know there is a smarter being out there who wouldn't have elected George W. Bush two times as President. To quote Kathleen Madigan, Earth is the "Alabama of the Universe." Which just goes to show that I'm not surprised an Alabamian is the record holder of being the first human being to get hit by a meteorite. I wonder if that was before or after she spotted the UFO.