“Oooooooooooo, what’s this?” I say as I open a little piece of paper that some human had left on the ground. “It’s a story! I love reading what the little humans have to say.”
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BREAKING NEWS
Did you know that giraffe’s tails can be up to eight feet long? Well, we have received some information that may help us determine what these long tails can actually do. Yesterday, March 3rd, 25 tourists experienced an unbelievable sighting. Today i’m here with two of these travelers to uncover what they really saw.
“Well butter my butt and call me a biscuit! That trip was crazier than meemaw at a family gathering. I was just minding my P’s and Q’s when I saw this helicopter thingy way up in the sky! But then this nerdy guy wearing a bowtie was like, we don’t have helicopters round these parts. And I was like, that ain’t a helicopter! That’s a giraffe! And everyone was screamin’ but I saved the day by steering our desert truck right outta there! And all of them were like, Thank you so much! You saved us! Y’all are welcome by the way.”
You heard it here folks. That trip must have been wild. Did he really see a giraffe flying? Or is he pulling our leg? Let’s see how his story holds up to another tourist’s account.
“I was just doing my calculations of our speed and trajectory, when all of the sudden this mad man shouted, There’s a helicopter! However I know that in this country’s laws and regulations, section C, paragraph twenty-three, it states that helicopters are prohibited from going over the habitats of their native animals. So I grabbed my binoculars and took a closer look. What I saw was preposterous. It was a giraffe! Flying! This is not scientifically posible! I have done all my research and I have concluded that this is not real. Some trick of the light. I do not believe this is true.”
Wow. We have two very different points of view of this incident. Now we will take this time to interview a zoologist who has been studing giraffes her whole life.
“I am truely baffled at the thought of giraffes being able to fly or hover using their tails. Though I am not dismissing the fact that many people have witnessed this occurrence. I have set up small, environmentally-friendly cameras all across the savannah to help capture this on camera. If my cameras can catch this, it could be a great leap in my field. We scientists don’t know how giraffes got their long necks, so there is still a lot more to uncover about this mysterious species. I am still very cautious of what I am believing, but what could be is extraordinary.”
This may as well be the story of the century. Twenty-five witnesses state that they saw a flying giraffe. Do you believe this? All of us here at Natalie City Press are crossing our fingers that this was not a prank. I’m John Doe, signing off.
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I can’t believe this is happening. I just got my flyer’s license and now the humans caught me flying. This is not going to be good.
“Rodger! The council will see you now.”
This going to be awful. Will they take away my flyer’s license? Or will it be worse than that?
As I walk into the room all of the council members look up from their newspapers containing the story about me.
“Through much thought and deliberation we the council have decided to force all of the population of giraffes to live in Antarctica. Councilers, please go tell your herds.”
“NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!”
Written by Natalie B. from Powhatan, Virginia, United States of America
