Good news thread

[raginduck]

Run monkeys... run!

43 monkeys escape from a South Carolina medical lab. Police say there is no serious danger - World News

Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is "almost no danger” to the public.

www.castanet.net

 

[nobbie48]

Run monkeys... run!

43 monkeys escape from a South Carolina medical lab. Police say there is no serious danger - World News

Forty-three monkeys escaped from a compound used for medical research in South Carolina but the nearby police chief said there is "almost no danger” to the public.

www.castanet.net

Fifteen pounds with sharp teeth. Nooo problem.

 

[timtune]

Fifteen pounds with sharp teeth. Nooo problem.

Which monkeys eat your face?

 

[Relax]

More of a feel good story than good news but

Holy Quick Draw McGraw!

 

[nobbie48]

Which monkeys eat your face?

Chimps, several cases.

 

[MacDoc]

and fingers and penis but chumps are apes not monkeys.

 

[MacDoc]

wow

'I knew I was gonna die': Yukon paraglider recounts terrifying, high-altitude mishap in India​

Ben Lewis of Watson Lake, Yukon, was sucked up high into a storm before plummeting, unconscious, back to earth​

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-paraglider-ben-lewis-india-storm-1.7379151

 

[GreyGhost]

wow

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/yukon-paraglider-ben-lewis-india-storm-1.7379151

Getting sucked up to well over 20k feet and then spun fast enough to blow your eye and ear doesn't sound like fun. Glad he survived.

 

[MacDoc]

There was one a few decades ago where an ejecting pilot got sucked into a storm...long parachute trip.

William Rankin - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[nobbie48]

Baby goat stranded on cliff for four days rescued

A group of strangers worked together to rescue an 'unrescuable' baby goat stranded on the side of a cliff in Hawaii.

barrie.ctvnews.ca

 

[PrivatePilot]

Which monkeys eat your face?

and fingers and penis but chumps are apes not monkeys.

Getting sucked up to well over 20k feet and then spun fast enough to blow your eye and ear doesn't sound like fun. Glad he survived.

There was one a few decades ago where an ejecting pilot got sucked into a storm...long parachute trip.

Wait, I thought this was a good news thread?

 

[MacDoc]

Surviving these inadvertent events are indeed good news for those involved.

 

[timtune]

It's good news if they're not the face eaters.

 

[Dirty Frank]

A year old but still satisfying.

 

[timtune]

I finally found the expensive braided stainless brake lines that I had hidden in my garage. My project is gonna have some stylish brakes.