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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.

Luke Michaels to Triumph in Coma Dirt War

By Thomas Steven John, Coma News future beat reporter

 

 
Luke Michaels will win an unexpected victory in Dirt War Saturday, by uncontested acclimation.
Michaels’, 10, victory over his older brother Sean, 12, came to this reporter in a sweat-soaked fever dream.

The younger Michaels’ victory followed a day-long dirt clod-throwing battle at a residential construction site, known between the brothers as “The Hills.” Although Luke was generally on the run throughout the day, a desperation handful of dirt will momentarily blind Sean and elicit the universal surrender “you cheated, I’m going home.”

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Although the boys’ mother declined interviews with them for this article she expressed relief “no one’s gonna lose an eye.”
“Usually its a victory for their dad and I when we’re able to pry those computer games out of their hands for half a second and get them to go outside,” she said. “But I guess, either way, there’s a price to be paid.”
The victory by the younger Michaels will be short-lived, however, as months of further fighting between the brothers in nearby streams, woods, and the neighborhood pool will follow the mysterious incapacitation of their families’ Xbox gaming system.
“That sounds awesome,” said Jimmy Cracker, 10, a sometimes ally of the younger Michaels, when told about a coming battle–featuring BB guns and M-80s taped to tennis balls–which the brothers will lead. “But I gotta go because I’m not supposed to talk to strangers. Especially ones who smell weird.”

Wolverine’s Losing Season Begins Saturday

By Thomas Steven John, Coma News future beat reporter
The Coma Middle School Wolverines baseball team will lose their season opening game Saturday and it won’t even be close. The 32-2 loss to the Damascus Canal Mules will shock many CMS fans but many will quickly write it off as a one-game fluke.
“No way, dude. ‘Rines rule!” Yelled Chase Donovan, when told of the impending loss.

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Instead of the second game featuring a repeat of last season’s clobbering of the Brownsville Trousers, the Wolverines will lose in a squeaker.
As the season progresses and the losses begin to mount, brief flashes of hope will spark when the schedule reveals particularly troubled opponents.

But the subsequent losses and the lack of a mercy rule in the middle school league will leave some parents questioning the point of it all.
Among the few upsides is that the final games will provide substantial playing time for the team’s benchwarmers following the departures of every talented player.
Marybell Davis expressed surprise  when told her younger brother was going to pitch for the team before the end of the season.
“But he’s their mascot and he’s like seven,” she said.
The season is never ending but will end on Oct. 27th.

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.

Winter Blews? Mayor Considers Airstrike

Winter Blews? Mayor Considers Airstrike

By Thomas Steven John, future beat reporter Coma News

Mayor Dave Anderson plans to request a firebombing of Coma Saturday, The Coma News has learned.

Anderson, who has not yet revealed the plan to anyone, was seen implementing the airstrike in the future fever dreams of this Coma News reporter.

The high altitude napalm strike will aim to melt the remainder of the record 87 inches that have fallen in Coma this Winter.

The idea was seen coming to Anderson suddenly as he quietly considered the utter meaningless of life during yet another day trapped indoors by frigid temperatures. It was then that he remembered a commander in the local Air National Guard “owed me big–like Tijuana big.”

“What? I have no idea what you’re talking about,” Anderson said, when asking about the impending bombardment. “Although this goddamn winter feels like it’s never going to end. Like ever.”

When asked about the high likelihood of death and destruction as a result of his actions, Anderson mumbled with a far away look that “fire melts snow; it ain’t rocket science.”

When asked about the likely impact of the Airstrike on his re-election chances, Anderson snapped out of his vacant stare.

“Oh yeah, well, maybe we could just wait and see,”he said. “You hear what forecast is for next week?”