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Spring Cleaning to Overwhelm Coma Landfill

By Thomas Steven John, future news reporter, Coma News Daily
An unprecedented spring cleaning bug will infect Coma residents this coming weekend, resulting in the temporary shutdown of the Coma Landfill Saturday and Sunday, Coma News has learned.

The first-time closure of Coma’s refuse collection facility came to this reporter in a peyote-fueled fever dream.

There are no storm troopers in Coma however someone will throw out this costume rather than putting it on Craigslist.

Although there are no actual storm troopers in Coma, someone will throw out this costume rather than putting it on Craigslist.

“Not gonna happen, never happened, and never will happen,” Moab Johnson, owner of the dump, said when told of the impending closure of his facility. The trash receiver could be overwhelmed only i  “every man, woman and child in Coma swarmed the facility to toss useless crap, ” he said.

The eventual useless-crap-throwing-mob will only include about one-third of the town’s population but their deposits will be swollen by a town-wide Internet failure that will render Freecycle and Craigslist inaccessible.
“Oh, no. I’m going to donate these really wonderful items I don’t need anymore to charity,” Town Councilwoman Natalie Peters said when told she will haul four van loads of crap to the dump.
“I only have to wait until next week for them to pick it up.”

Prancing Back to The Future

By Thomas Steven John, Future Reporter

Coma residents will soon ask ‘”What the heck is a plebiscite?”
It’s the rarely used legislative tool that’s about to make history–and ban your car, your bike, anything you use to transport yourself from one place to another–Coma News has learned (in a peyote fueled fever dream).

The summer-long hiatus of the Town Council will lead one local activist to propose a popular vote next week to amend the town charter banning the use of any transport but horses in town during daylight hours.

The new sign will read: no motor vehicles, bikes, legs and feet or anything that transports other than a horse.

The new sign will read: no motor vehicles, bikes, legs and feet or anything that transports other than a horse.

The first-of-its-kind vehicular ban was the brainchild of Davis Montgomery, publisher of Coma News.
“Since you’re ruining yet another surprise, you might as well extoll the virtues of the equestrian lifestyle over the cramped and stuffy confines of vehicles,” Montgomery said when asked about the initiative.
Montgomery plans to offer some of his 5,000 horses for lease once the ban is in effect.
The initiative will generate controversy among the subset of residents aware of the legally binding power of even a sparsely attended popular vote. Particularly strong objections will arise from avid bicyclists, every driver in town and people who enjoy walking.
“Where am I supposed to practice my rear wheel hops?” Chase Donovan, a local teen, said when told of the possible ban.
Local parents and daycare operators raised concerns that the vehicular ban would place particular burdens on them.

“Posh, in years past whole families would pile upon a single steed,” Montgomery said. “What’s more, at a single stroke we will resolve our childhood obesity and Type 2 Diabetes crises, as well as our fair town’s less-appreciated manure shortage.”

“Actually horse riding does little for childhood obesity.” said Dr. Jimmy, Coma town physician. “It can help the horse with an obesity issue.”

This horse has an obesity issue and will be helped by the ban.

This horse has an obesity issue and will be helped by the ban.

‘Coma News’ Pioneers Pay Innovations

By Thomas Steven John, Future News Reporter
Coma News Daily will institute a series of “cutting edge compensation innovations,” next week, including replacing its journalists’ salaries with a selection of coupons, the owner confirmed.

Your not just reporting the news you're getting free fried chicken.

You’re not just reporting the news you’re getting free fried chicken.

The as-yet unannounced compensation switch came to this reporter in a peyote-fueled fever dream.
Davis Montgomery, publisher of Coma News Daily, grudgingly admitted the coming remuneration changes.
“We just couldn’t make numbers work paying you reporters actual money but the coupons will make goods and services so affordable as to be nearly free,” Montgomery said in a phone interview from Davis III, one of his fleet of G7 jets.

Montgomery plans to offer the newspaper’s reporters and editors the chance to supplement their coupons with cash earned from weekend farm labor on the publisher’s equestrian estate. Other compensation changes include the closure of the dilapidated group house the editorial staff rents from Davis in town in exchange for hay loft space in a Davis stable.

Don Johnson Michaels is editor of Coma News Daily and works on my farm for free on the weekend as part of his compensation package at the newspaper.

Don Johnson Michaels is editor of Coma New Daily and is wonderful at brushing the horses.

“The fresh air and vigorous life amid nature’s bounty will do a world of good for these nattering nay bobs of negativity,” Montgomery said about the editorial staff. “Seriously, these people desperately need to learn to enjoy life.”

“Sleeping in a hay loft?” Don Johnson Michaels, the publication’s editor, said when told about the pay and benefits changes. “First divorce, then kidney stones and now waking up to horses__t. This is turning into a hell of a week.”

Coma News was unable to get a comment from Robert McGuiness, a former reporter at the newspaper and local media critic, because McGuiness began laughing so hard at the news that he chocked on his meal at Bear’s Biker Bar, vomited and passed out.

Before he was fired from Coma News Daily, Robert McGuiness spent most of his summer working weekends on the farm.

Before he was fired from Coma News Daily, Robert McGuiness spent most of his summer working weekends on the farm.

Unexpected Financial Windfalls, Fire, Demons to Hit Coma

Unexpected Financial Windfalls, Fire, Demons to Hit Coma
By Thomas Steven John, future beat reporter Coma News

The Town of Coma will be struck by unexpected financial windfalls, fire and demons this weekend, Coma News has learned in a fever-filled-peyote dream.

The money will come from several sources, including malfunctioning ATMs, a wave of miscalculated IRS refunds, and the opening of Coma’s first payday loan store.

“That’s really good to hear,” Mayor Dave Anderson said about the impending financial boondoggles. “As long as its not an insurance payout from some kid dying, which is how these free money things usually play out.”

The most sensational source of cash will come from a mid-air heist of a Treasury Department flight gone awry 30,000 feet over Coma. Unfortunately, the giant bags of high-denomination bills that land throughout Coma will be quickly recovered after door-to-door searches and body probes by federal agents.

The agents pictured are not the actual agents who might descend on Coma but are a good example of what was seen in the reporters fever dream.

The agents pictured are not the actual agents who might descend on Coma but are a good example of what was seen in the reporters fever dream.

“The technology the Feds got these days, it’s probably just a good idea to go ahead and give them the cash back right away,” Councilman Bob Smith-Smith said about the impending searches and probes with information he learned from Wikipedia.

Additionally, there is a good chance that on Saturday night some portion of Coma will be consumed by fire and demons.

This is an artistic rendering of a fire and demon descent on the Town of Coma.

This is an artistic rendering of a fire and demon descent on the Town of Coma.