Grab bag: near catastrophes
Insight into ancient warfare: Why javelineers were more useful than long jumpers.
100 feet from disaster: Two planes almost collided yesterday at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Airport.
It didn’t fit in the trunk: A wrecking ball snaps loose from a crane, smashing cars and injuring people. Zero deaths.
Perhaps Overly Worried Father: Definitely. (See the last letter)


Read the reader’s comments at the bottom of Prudie’s article. When I read it I figure that the letter writer must have sent it in as a joke to see if he could con Prudie into taking him seriously…
Comment by Allen | 15 July 2007
Good thing, although there are people in this world sufficiently nuts to write that.
Comment by Donnie Briggs | 15 July 2007