[MCAD] Not Up to Fatima?

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> BRIDEAN

> Sorry Till, there is a hill in Ohio that if you put a car in the right place on the

> hill, it will roll UP the hill on its own.  I can get more information about this if

> you want, but as I suspect, you as well as most other people are likely to

> dismiss something that they don't experience themselves EVEN IF it doesn't

> contradict the natural laws of science.


AVATAR
Damn, I thought we were the only folks who had a hill like that.  I live
in Ottawa now, but I grew up in New Brunswick (the province in Canada). 
One of our tourist attractions was the phenomenon in Moncton, New
Brunswick, known as Magnetic Hill.  Here is a description from the
Tourism of Moncton web site at http://www.greatermoncton.com:

Magnetic Hill is an example of a naturally occurring phenomenon that
continues to draw thousands of visitors to the park every year.
Passengers watch in amazement as they seem to coast uphill without any
power. The land which surrounds and makes up the hill has several unique
properties that create a landscape that can “fool the eye”. Today, the
Magnetic Hill Park is North America’s first municipal tourism industrial
park, with private entrepreneurs like Magic Mountain, Wharf Village Gift
Shoppes and Magnetic Hill Railroad developing attractions on leased land
from the City of Moncton to expand the tourists appeal of our world
famous Magnetic Hill. With over 800,000 visitors annually, the
mysterious little incline, where cars and water run uphill, has
fulfilled many peoples disbeliefs.

I, for one, was not that impressed with it.  Much more impressive was
the "Tidal Bore" that you can see in downtown Moncton.  What that is is
a little stream that runs from Moncton, down to the Bay of Fundy--known
for having the largest tides in the world--which is several miles from
Moncton.  There will be just this little trickle in the river bed, when
all of a sudden, this huge wave--sometimes 6 feet high--comes rushing up
the basin.  Then there is the Reversing Falls in Saint John, New
Brunswick, but that's another story.

So, Bridean, do you have any more bright ideas?

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