dunno if this qualifies as "in the news", but it's the gawdang truth:
a few weeks ago the fam and i hit up Rainier Nat'l Park. we got there early to a mostly-deserted parking lot. i mentally picked out a parking spot and as i got there i found... a single, solitary potato. just sitting there. waiting for me to run it over, maybe. the poor thing has clearly spent the night there, alone, cold. i could hear it calling to me, "i... neeeeeee.... hot... oil.... or at least a pat of butter and some chives!"
proof:
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