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Fall TV 2008: Ahoy, "Crusoe"!

Jaunted is planning our fall travel with some help from the networks. Check out our Fall TV 2008 Map to go where your new favorite characters go.

For every American who skimmed his most famous book in middle school, NBC avenges the good name of Daniel Defoe with "Crusoe" (Oct. 17, 8 pm), a faithful adaptation of the classic adventure novel.

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We Predict Psychic Museum Will Fail

Yeah, predictions are easy in hindsight: but why didn't the management team of the now-temporarily-defunct Psychic Museum in pretty York, England, know in advance that their idea wouldn't work?

This coming tourist season, instead of creepy tours given by alleged-psychics, the York building will be used by Fright Nights to give ghost tours. The Psychic Museum was only getting a hundred visitors a week, instead of the 100 a day they would have liked. Visitors to the museum were schooled on all kinds of psychic methods including telekinesis and dowsing. Jonathan Crainer, the man who originally set up the Psychic Museum in 2003, said:

If you are asking me for predictions when exactly it will open up again, then it is hard to say. Although I'm in the prediction business, I don't believe you can make predictions about things you are close to.

Which kind of makes having any psychic ability pretty useless, doesn't it?

[Photo: alicerose]

Related Stories:
· Psychic Museum Axed Due to Lack of Visitors [York Press]
· World's First Psychic Museum Opens in York [Psychic Times]

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Thou Shalt Not Urinate on the Side of the Road

Snake security is all the rage at the moment. In Serbia they use snakes for car security alarms and in Britain, they use them to discourage drivers from urinating on the side of the road.

At least, that's what it seems like when we read about the experience of a truck driver near York this week. An 8-foot long python gave him more than a bit of a fright as he did his business behind some bushes. The police later contacted the RSPCA who rescued the snake--he'd crawled up a nearby tree in fright.

If you're driving in the area, it's the A59 motorway you have to beware of. Until they unleash the anti-urination pythons across the whole country, that is.

[Photo: Gondonr]

Related Stories:
· Python Shock for Trucker [York Press]
· Serbian Snake Security [Jaunted]