ALHAMBRA-The day was warm and sunny. Christopher Perez, amateur cone
enthusiast, was out for a morning stroll. Suddenly, he saw a bit of
orange peeking out from behind a bush. "I thought at first it might
be some sort of orange bird- it seemed too small to be a cone."
But soon there was no mistaking- it was a tiny cone! This pint sized
pylon emerged from the bush and was soon followed by others- a whole
miniature herd! "I knew nobody would believe me. Old legends of
a tiny cone race were long ago dismissed by scientists. So, I decided
to bring them home with me. I lured them with a trail of asphalt chips."
Once the cones were home, Perez snapped several pictures of them. He
then tried to return them to the wild. "But they just wouldn't
budge!" The cones seemed content to linger in his yard. It has
been three weeks, but they have shown no intention of leaving. Perez
seems resigned to his fate as cone keeper: "They're fun to have
around- and they're useful! That one over there saved me from falling
in a gopher hole yesterday!"
