PRINTThe Good, The Bad & The Ugly
July 3, 2008 | 12:00 a.m. CST
The Good
License to lol North Carolina officials are offering state drivers a chance to exchange potentially offensive license plates. The problematic pattern plaguing principled passengers? WTF, an abbreviation that in Web lingo delivers a message of shock or incomprehension and in which the “F” is, unsurprisingly, the offending letter. Officials were unaware of the problem until just last year. WTG, North Carolina.
The Bad
Animals on parade A number of circus creatures staged an early-morning breakout onto the streets of Amsterdam. Among the culprits were 15 camels, two zebras, an unknown number of llamas and pot-bellied pigs, and the ringleader, a giraffe. Police quickly rounded them up, but not before they could wander the area’s residential neighborhoods. Was this an isolated critter coup — or a warning of the approaching revolution?
The Ugly
Rolling Blunder A South Carolina teenager was decapitated by a Six Flags roller coaster. The boy climbed two fences and ignored signs warning that the off-limits area was extremely dangerous in an unbearably ironic attempt to retrieve a lost hat. This sad story, however, does illustrate an important lesson: At amusement parks, if you don’t have a good head on your shoulders, you might end up with no head on your shoulders.
