An airline doesn’t suck; hippo birthdays; and Vegemite defenders
Last week, British Airways made a case for airlines not sucking a bag of dicks, puffins returned, and an eagle did something unfortunate with a cat.
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Wonderful
Stories like this remind us that people aren’t so fucking awful after all: a woman in Louisiana went weeks without electricity and heat due to the power company’s stupid no-payment-plan policy. The community pitched in and paid her bill.
When one airline denies a refund to a victim of a mass stabbing, it’s just an opportunity for another airline to dunk on them.
We love old-people weddings. We love old-people-weddings-in-a-pool even more.
Wild
There are drugs, and then there’s the feeling of spending five years searching for one of the planet’s rarest whales when one day, two of them swim right by your research boat.
The world’s oldest pygmy hippo had a very appropriately themed 52nd birthday.
Weird
An eagle tried to use a cat to final destination a driver in North Carolina.
We applaud this prisoner’s determination to defend his rights to bad taste.
This guy just needed a hand helping his son with math homework, and what he got was a mission to save the world and a mental health crisis.