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pink zeppelin with the Hello Kitty logo on it, piloted -- in a stunning coincidence -- by Jack's eccentric cousin Raoul; and unfortunately Jack's arrow penetrated the zeppelin's gondola and embedded itself in Raoul's left buttock; but that wasn't the worst of it, since Jack, having intended to hunt endangered owls, had dipped the arrow in the toxic excretions of a rare arrow poison frog, as a result of which Raoul's body was wracked with spasms and he clutched the zeppelin's controls, forcing the stick forward, and as the zeppelin suddenly descended it became entangled in a cell phone antenna, disrupting service in the surrounding area and causing hundreds of cell phone users to fling their devices furiously to the pavement and stomp them into dust; meanwhile the zeppelin was deflating and its ribs collapsed with a sickening crunching sound, and Raoul's now-dead body fell with to the ground with a noise that sounded like a dead body falling to the ground, but to the disappointment of the many onlookers who had just crushed their cell phones, the zeppelin did not explode in Hindenburgian glory, but instead hung off the phone tower forlornly, like giant pink underpants; and Jack, seeing Raoul's body sprawled and split open below the danging zeppelin shell with its Hello Kitty figure staring insanely at the sky, pulled his arrow from Raoul's buttock and said, "Sorry, dude; I was just passing by."
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