Friday Snippets and Soundbites

It's Friday—which means a long day at school followed by the weekend, football games, and "Snippets and Soundbites"!

We can't wait to get your weekend off to a quirky start with our review of the best strange news stories we've found reported by reputable sites this week. This world sure is a crazy place!

Let's see what we found. . .

Wait a minute!

Have you ever worried you'd mistake something else for your toothpaste? Use body wash instead of shampoo on your hair? Put the wrong kinds of solution in your contact case? Well, Irmgard Holm of Arizona doesn't have to worry about that anymore. That's because the woman, who had cataract surgery a year ago, mistook a bottle of super glue for her eye drops this week—and accidentally glued one of her eyes shut. She has to use several eye drop medications every day and just thought the bottle was one of them. Holm said the super glue burned when she put it in her eye, which is what made her realize it wasn't eye drops she'd just put into her eye. She then tried washing the glue out, but super glue is made to dry quickly and had already sealed her eye shut. She had to go to the hospital and the doctors and nurses had to cut off the hardened glue covering her eye. After the glue was removed, the doctors washed it out to prevent any major damage. It appears Holm will be fine, but we bet she'll put her super glue in a safe place—one that's NOWHERE near her eye drops! You can read all about it here.


Hot potato!
It's fall, meaning some of us (those who love food) are already thinking about all the wonderful things that will hit the table during the Thanksgiving season. Turkey. Dressing. Green beans. Mashed potatoes. Cranberry sauce. Yams. But even if you're not already dreaming about casseroles and cranberries, you thoughts probably would have turned to Thanksgiving foods this week if you'd been driving down Interstate 5 near Glendale, Calif., this week. That's because a tractor-trailer loaded with 50,000 pounds of yams caught fire on the southbound lanes of the interstate early yesterday morning, stalling traffic for 7 and a half hours. Two of the southbound lanes had to be closed while officials dealt with the truck fire, then the yams had to loaded onto another truck. No injuries were reported. To learn more, go here.

That's what you'd call a real fan.

Major Hester is a huge Michigan State football fan. So much so that when doctors wanted to install a pacemaker yesterday, he told them he'd prefer to wait until after the school's football game this weekend against Michigan. Seeing that Michigan is Michigan State's big rival, we get it. . .but really? Hester plans to watch his 17th ranked Michigan State Spartans take on the 18th ranked Michigan Wolverines on Saturday at home on his television. Hester says he's willing to risk death to watch the game and has already been thinking about the pep talks he's going to give himself during the game to keep from getting too excited. Hester says he put the procedure off mainly because he didn't want to risk something going wrong on the operating table that would prevent him from seeing Saturday's game. We wish him the best! Read more about it here.

If this week's online edition of all things weird just wasn't enough for you, check out page 38 in this month's (and every month's) issue of ec. You won't be sorry!