
Last week we came bearing news of invisible horses in Red Dead Redemption. The start of that sentence didn’t sound right, but I can’t say it’s inaccurate either. Now here’s a fresh load of videos with more funny glitches. This first video [via Kotaku] is of Gunslinger Dog, who showed up at Fort Mercer, floating in midair, speaking like the taco bell dog and giving you a boost over the wall. I’m starting to think these glitches are all intentional for the humorous viral marketing potential. It’s working.
The second video is of the Donkey Lady, a strange-faced woman who makes donkey noises and lets you ride her like a horse. Let’s just assume I made a yo’ mamma joke here and we can move on. We cool? This is one of those gaming videos where the background conversation actually adds to the fun instead of distracting from it, in the same vein as ladder goat. Oh, donkey lady. You’re so random.
The third video is a surprisingly well-edited musical tribute to the Bird People . . . getting shot in the head. *kisses fingertips* Magnifique.
[last two videos via Destructoid, who have two more glitch videos (Cougar Man and Demonic Horse)]




Strange-faced like civil war currency?
The Donkey Lady could be a reference to an urban legend in San Antonio, TX. Details are hard to pin down, but supposedly a semi deformed old lady was killed in southern San Antonio many years ago. And now her half human/half donkey ghost haunts a certain bridge south of town.
None of these are as funny as the glitch in San Andreas where you could get your head chopped off and then run around spurting blood out of the stump of your neck and everyone would interact with you like it was perfectly normal.
This reminds me of the book series Otherland by Tad Williams. They went to a virtual world that’s surprisingly similar to some of these glitches.