BaNZai7 NeWS: The deadly QE Cobra (pictured below) that's been MIA at the Bronx Zoo has attained celebrity status -- it now has its own page in World's Greatest Disasters (This Time It's Reeeeeeeaaally Different!).

MEANWHILE...

(Reuters) - Over the past two weeks, Japanese government officials and Tokyo Electric Power executives have repeatedly described the deadly combination of the most powerful quake in Japan's history and the massive tsunami that followed as "soteigai," or beyond expectations.

When Tokyo Electric President Masataka Shimizu apologized to the people of Japan for the continuing crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant he called the double disaster "marvels of nature that we have never experienced before".

But a review of company and regulatory records shows that Japan and its largest utility repeatedly downplayed dangers and ignored warnings -- including a 2007 tsunami study from Tokyo Electric Power Co's senior safety engineer.

WB7: We seem to have our own soteigai, haven't we?

NOTE: Reuter's spells the word "soteigai". I have learned from my Mom that it is two words "sotei" comprehension and "gai" outside. Hence "sotei gai" beyond comprehension. Sotei gai, the cop out of choice for the new millenium.