You just can't make this stuff up. And if you tried, you'd probably ruin it in the telling. The Dallas Morning News City Hall blog reports today that two city council members are encouraging the rest of council to support a "trade mission" that would, and I quote Councilwoman Vonciel Hill Jones,

"establish as one of our business connections an African Safari connection between businesspersons in America who want to hunt big game. We would organize that from our end and make that a business endeavor."

The blog doesn't say whether council members were pondering a trip to a specific country or just to the continent in general, but Jones had recently toured South Africa.

And the zinger on top of the zinger? Jones' "suggestion came as the council gazed upon a photo of a massive African elephant taken on the trade mission," the blog reports.

And visions of doing the same, danced in their heads...

(Photo: hunting big game. Photo by flickr user brett.wagner, used via the Creative Commons license.)