Prickly Skinny Dipping and Starfish Frisbees

You probably heard about the record-breaking U.S. win in the men’s freestyle 4 x 100m relay. Impressive stuff indeed. Go Team USA!

However, if you’re looking for funny, your best bet is this pair of water-related blurbs we spotted in The Week whilst hard at work on the elliptical tonight.

First, we came across story about an unfortunate German fellow who went skinny dipping with his pals, fled when the fuzz showed up, and ended up—start cringing early for this one—jumping into a hedge of nettles. How did the officers find him? They just followed the screams. (Tough call as to whether this guy or snakebite-to-the-Johnson fella suffered the worse fate).

Second, this tidbit on starfish gave us a two-minute laughing fit (and no doubt made the guy on the neighboring elliptical crinkle his brow): The island of Grenada has launched a don’t-use-starfish-as-dog-Frisbees campaign. Looks like Patrick from Spongebob Squarepants can reconsider that Caribbean vacation after all.