What's Going on?

No, I'm not talking of the namesake hit number by Marvin Gaye.

I am talking instead of the more than one piece of bizarre news that were reported this month.

Sample the following:

* Several turkeys who probably didn’t want to end up on any dinner table(today being Thanksgiving), were seen standing on a New Jersey railway platform a couple of days back, looking as if they were keen on catching the first train out of town.

* Reminiscent of our ex-PM H.D. Deve Gowda, Prince Charles sure seemed to have taken a cue from him. The Prince slumped to sleep at a Royal Armistice Day tribute, much to his mother, Queen Elizabeth's shock(and displeasure).

* Some donkey business this. Fancy Amitabh Bachan and the Khan brigade, but clueless how to reach Bollywood? Seems to be the case with some others too, who, in a novel way of paying tribute to their favorite silver screen stars, have named their donkeys (gasp) after them. Don’t believe me? Well then, make your way to Ujjain (Madhya Pradesh), where the five-day Gardhabraj Mela is being held.

* A Dutch woman, her will in tow, happened to go to her family cemetery. She’d already “booked” a grave where she wanted to be buried, right next to her husband’s grave. Her wish came sooner than she wished probably, because she suffered a cardiac arrest and dropped down dead next to her pre-chosen grave.

* So you bought that hot pair of wheels to keep up with the Joneses, right? At the rate we use the Joneses in our expressions; it was only fair they gathered for a jamboree of entertainment. 2000 people who shared the Joneses surname turned up at the decided venue, Cardiff. Their efforts might not go waste after all—they could fetch an entry in the Guinness Book of World Records.

* Closer home, a 3 month-old infant in that dreaded of states, Bihar, was arrested for looting a bus, but later released. TI guess that even the he authorities figured in the end that it was a tad too unrealistic an allegation.

* And lastly, a man who has been dead for 26 years now, has been summoned by the Shimla high Court, in connection with a case.

Dead Man Walking, anyone?!