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In Summit County, Col- orado, schools are strug- gling to find bus drivers, but Josh Smith, 12, has a solu- tion. Smith, who lives with his parents in Silverthorne, ap- proached them about kayaking to school across Lake Dillon, rather than having them drive him the long way.
Student Chooses To Paddle His Way To School
“I have a 12-year-old who wants to be adventurous, wants to do something none of his buddies would do, and how can I say no to that?” mused dad Jason. KDVR-TV reported that on Josh’s first commute, he arrived almost on time.
Kelvin Tan, the director of the academy, apologized for alarming people. He explained that “road show” employees were told to put on “cute mas- cot” costumes, but he wasn’t aware they’d be wearing clown getups.
“Iwaslatetooneofmy classes, and everyone was like, ‘Josh, where were you? We were worried,’ and I was like, ‘Oh, I was kayaking to school,’” Josh said.
Conversely, those that did weather the storm appear to be seeking shelter on higher ground, as exterminators report a spike in complaints.
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Driven To Fail
In other Weird happenings:
When Bees Attack
Tail Of A Storm
On Sept. 17, at a penguin colony near Simonstown,
When Hurricane Ida swept
through New York, the heavy rain and flooding did an esti- mated $50 million in damage. But in the Big Apple, there’s a silver lining: The storm may have cleared out a significant portion of the rat population that lived in the sewers and subway system. Experts be- lieve hundreds of thousands of rats may have died as sewer systems were overwhelmed and dumped into local bays and estuaries, where the rodents later washed up on beaches.
South Africa, 63 endangered African penguins were killed by a swarm of bees, CNN re- ported. South African National Parks issued a statement say- ing that the “deaths occurred suddenly sometime between Thursday afternoon and Fri- day morning.” Examinations revealed that “all the penguins had multiple bee stings,” many of which were around the birds’ eyes, which one expert called a “fluke.”
File this one under Mar- keting Ideas Gone Wrong: Speech Academy Asia in Sin- gapore planted clowns outside multiple primary schools in early September in an effort to
persuade students to enroll in public-speaking courses, The Straits Times reported. In re- sponse, principals and parents urged students to stay away from strangers, including the clowns.
Bobby Corrigan, longtime pest control expert, told Go- thamist, “I can’t imagine they would’ve survived.”
A Bunch Of Clowns
“Maybe the clowns were too scary. It’s wrong and we won’t do it again,” he said.
Timothy Wolfe of Lake City, Florida, arrived at the Lake
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