Based in Atlanta, GA - Rick Limpert is an award-winning writer, a best-selling author, and a featured sports travel writer.
Named the No. 1 Sports Technology writer in the U.S. on Oct 1, 2014.
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Train Driver Stops to Buy Peaches
There is nothing better than a ripe peach.
Tunisia’s national railway company said on Friday that it had opened an investigation after a video emerged online showing a driver apparently stopping a train to buy peaches.
The short video, reported filmed from inside a train in the Sahel region, shows crates of fruit placed at the edge of the railway and a vendor climbing onto the train to give a plastic bag to someone.
"Look, he stops an entire train to pick up peaches," said one passenger, while others stood up to watch the scene.
Hassen Miadi, communications director of the Tunisian national railway, described it as an "isolated case".
"We have opened an investigation into this video and will take the necessary administrative measures," he told local radio.
New Year's Eve "Drops"
New Year's Eve. A time to reflect on the year that passed and to make those resolutions for the next one.
It's also a time for cities across the country to copy New York City and have a "drop" of some type to ring in the beginning of the new year.
We all know about New York City dropping the crystal ball, and here in Atlanta they of course drop a giant peach. Now take a gander at what some other cities across the good ole USA are dropping.
Fayetteville, AR - A hog
Key West, FL - A conch shell
Miami and Orlando, FL - An orange
Eastport, Maine - A sardine
Raleigh, NC - An acorn
Beavertown, PA - A beaver, of course
Hershey, PA - A giant Hershey Kiss
Nashville, TN - A guitar
Plymouth, WI - An 80-pound decorated cheese wedge
Mobile, AL - A giant electric Moon Pie is raised
and Panama Ciy, FL - A giant beach ball
How's this for cool. A reader sent me a picture of the cheese drop from 2010 in Plymouth, WI.