Gordon Forgey

It seems all the news is grim.

Not so. Some of it is just inexplicable.

Take the California teenager who reportedly sneaked onto a major airport, roamed the tarmac and climbed into the wheel well of a Boeing 767 jet bound for Hawaii.

The flight was about five and a half hours long and reached altitudes of more than 30,000 feet. He didn’t freeze. He didn’t die from lack of oxygen. He didn’t fall to his death when the wheels were dropped for landing.

After the plane landed, he stumbled out onto the tarmac apparently no worse for wear. Doctors are scratching their heads over his survival. So are airport security experts.

A fisherman recently landed an eight hundred pound man-eating shark while fishing from the shore.

There are photos and a video of his fight with the monster. Although making national news, he wants to keep the details secret because he is very sensitive about the fact that people might shy away from using the beach where the shark was caught.

And, Chicago has been named America’s funniest city—funny meaning humorous, not strange.

Cited were the jokes the city folk make about the harsh weather and the city’s transit system. This study may have been swayed by the fact that a train belonging to that very same transit system recently crashed into an escalator at O’Hare International Airport.

The study was conducted by researchers at the University of Colorado and was released Sunday. Maybe not so coincidentally, Sunday, aside from being Easter, was also the day of the first 4:20 Pot Festival in Colorado. The event drew tens of thousands of people who openly smoked marijuana in front of the state Capitol.

There’s no word if the researchers had arrived early.

Gordon Forgey

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