Friday is a good time to taper down from the week, and this week is a good one to taper down from. With that in mind, here are a few lighter – and weirder – items from the news. Enjoy!
First up: There was an earthquake on Friday, that shook the New York City area and the surrounding countryside, including Horsham, Pennsylvania, where Justin Allen was undergoing a vasectomy.
“The doctor was like, ‘I think this is an earthquake.’ I figured he was messing with me, but he had to stop because everything was shaking,” Justin Allen of Horsham told the Guardian.
“[He] put the tools down for a moment.”
Allen got the shaft timing-wise when the 4.8-magnitude quake began shaking the hospital room right as he was going under the knife — fully lucid with local anesthesia — at around 10:25 a.m., he said.
“I thought maybe a train was passing by,” he said. “We talked about…
