Randomness Corner--BREAKING NEWS: FUGITIVE PENGUIN STILL ON THE LAM.

Japanese officials updated the public to the renegade Humboldt penguin that made a daring escape from the Tokyo Sea Life Park into Tokyo Bay a few months ago.

It's alive and apparently fattening up.

In new video taken by the Japanese Coast Guard, the tubby fugitive mocks its captors by keeping just enough distance from being arrested. Experts believe the penguin is going all-you-can-eat buffet style like a trucker from Iowa, gorging on small fish in the harbor during daylight hours before heading to an unknown lair on shore where it probably entertains various unsavory characters in the midnight hour.

Officials are still uncertain how the penguin exactly escaped in the first place. They now claim there was a 13ft concrete wall it had to get past on top of the barbed wire netting originally reported as its main obstacle to freedom.

My guess is he used a small pick to cut tiny chunks out of the wall and used a poster of Raquel Welch to disguise what he was doing from the guards.



photo: Reuters