Six Drown Saving Chickens: And Other True Stories from the Reuters Oddly Enough File

Basler is a member of a vanishing breed - the journalist who has preserved his sense of humor and whimsy. Bob and I started our journalistic careers in the spring of 1967 at The Indianapolis News. He moved on to New York and Reuters and I ran out the clock in Indianapolis. But we both shared a fascination for the bizarre little stories that crop up from time to time - the kind of stuff we'd clip out of the paper and poke into a drawer or a file folder with the intention of putting it all together in a collection someday. That's what Bob has done for us with this book - saved a handful of these gems that make newspapers something other than dreary chronicles of mayhem and tragedy. But then that's the kind of book you might expect from a guy who, as a young reporter, once hid inside a trash can on an Indianapolis street and shouted "Thank you!" whenever someone tossed in some refuse.

Well, the title tells it all. This book is a compliation of wacky human interest stories as reported by the REUTERS news service. I really liked it a lot.