In this post-modern world wherein consensus reality seems less and less tethered to objective facts there are still a few headlines that one expects never to have to read; a string of words so bizarre that they manage to grab a chokehold on one's imagination with a strange mixture of fascination, fear and astonishment.

One such headline was delivered via the Daily Mail on February 6th, 2012, and it read: "Reason for Zimbabwe reservoir delays... mermaids have been hounding workers away!"

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DAILY MAIL: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2097218/Reason-Zimbabwe-reservoir-delays--mermaids-hounding-workers-away.html

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