A Tv station in Corpus Christi, Texas, broke the news of a house explosion — when the sound of the blast rocked its studio while it was on the air live.
The gas explosion leveled three homes and injured two people. It could clearly be heard as KIII/Channel 3 started its morning telecast.
“We might be making our own news,” said one of the anchors after the set shook from the shock wave.
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This may be the only time of year that its warm enough for Canadians to be this daring.
A group of four Canadian nudist clubs set out Saturday to hold the world’s largest skinny dip.
It was unknown whether they succeeded. They will have to send in a picture of the event to Guinness, who will determine whether they beat the old record of 14,288 skinny dippers.
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Japan has come up with a new way to look young and beautiful — putting live snails on your face.
The so-called “snail facials” involve a therapist putting the slimy animals on a person’s face and letting them walk around, leaving their rejuvenating slime behind.
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If you want to go to this year’s Boy Scout jamboree, you’d better not be hooked on Girl Scout cookies.
The scouts have banned very obese scouts from attending — because the event is expected to be the most physically rigorous ever and it might be dangerous for overweight scouts.
No scout with a body-mass index of more than 40, which is usually about 100 pounds over the ideal body weight, is welcome.
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If you live in the north German town of Mecklenburg, you’d better hope your insurance covers stork attacks.
Cars in the area have been ravaged by a rogue stork, which has been delivering not babies but dents and dings to autos it pecks at ferociously with its huge beak.