It’s almost St. Patrick’s Day! How wonderful to be able to drink with a weekend’s abandon on a Thursday! In honor of this most-sacred holiday, I have prepared a list of options that are better than driving drunk.
Thanks to heavy snow in the Western mountain states, Colorado has come up with a unique way to deal with avalanche prevention. On U.S. Route 550's Red Mountain Pass, the Colorado Department of Transportaion is blasting snow using a World War II-era howitzer. The DOT's John Palmer spoke with news station KOB:
Fetch me my smelling salts; these kids are going to kill me.
I think jokes about dads being inept caregivers are kind of dumb in general, but I guess dads are statistically more likely to own remote-controlled cars, so the joke is probably apt in this case. I can theoretically see how this video of a baby being dragged around in his Bumbo seat by a toy pickup truck is funny, but as a fun-hating safety freak, I couldn't breathe while watching it. Somebody give this baby a helmet, please.
This story is giving me heart palpitations from second-hand adrenaline.
On Monday night in Hialeah, Florida, three would-be carjackers attacked two women at a Tom Thumb gas station. The suspects rushed the two vehicles with guns drawn, and the first woman was able to jump into her SUV and lock the doors. At this point they ran for the second vehicle, a small red convertible. One of the suspects got into the driver's seat, but that's when the owner of the car, 21-year-old Angie Padron reached inside and DRAGGED HIM OUT.
Need any more proof that 3-year-olds are monsters who care nothing for your cardiac health or sanity? Look no further than this toddler in Crystal River, Florida, who decided to try to murder his parents in cold blood this week by scaring them to death.
Tampa Bay news station WTSP reports:
Look at this poor elk! The 600-lb female fell through a plexiglass window well into a family's living room in Hailey, Idaho, and they didn't even have any snacks ready for her.
Austrian Marcel Hirscher, currently considered the best alpine skier in the world, recently competed in a World Cup event in Madonna di Campiglio, Italy. A few seconds into his second slalom run, he was a split second away from being crushed by a falling camera drone.
