• Playing with a random 120-pound dog outside of a restaurant is never really a good idea.
• No health risks from the NYC explosion. Except, you know, for those people who got hit with all the flying debris.
• Are you ready to stand in the sweltering heat with a bunch of smelly indie kids?
• If we had money to go on vacation, we'd definitely go through this guy.
• Now you won't need to leave your favorite lighter behind at the airport anymore! Which is super convenient for smokers and, of course, people who enjoy setting small fires on transcontinental flights.
"Incredibly, CNN's Lou Dobbs didn't mention the transformer explosion at all during his 6pm newscast," observes TVNewswer.
But you know who did mention it? The Daily Mail (UK)! Good thing they totally kept things in perspective, though, as evidenced by their modest and completely understated headline, "Explosion Tears Through New York In Replay Of September 11 Panic."
"An underground steam pipe explosion tore through a Manhattan street near Grand Central Terminal last night, swallowing a tow truck and killing one person as hundreds of others ran for cover amid a towering geyser of steam and flying rubble in scenes reminiscent of the panic after the September 11 terrorist attack," writes the Daily Mail in a crazy, reactionary run-on sentence of a lede.
For those of you lucky suburbanites who weren't in New York yesterday, things sure started to get a little crazy around 5:57pm!
See, a steam-pipe 24 inches in diameter burst just outside of Grand Central, causing a boom, a weird, loud rumbling sound, and millions of pounds of pressurized steam, debris (and possibly asbestos!) to fling out of the ground, yielding awkward—yet completely mesmerizing—local news footage ("It's, like, a—a giant crater!" reported ABC's baffled on-air newsperson).
And that was just the beginning.
