"Walking through Albert Park last week I noticed a group of tourists crowded in a circle," writes Ted Edwards. "They were pointing to something on the ground, while several were taking photos. I was intending to walk right past, but curiosity got the better of me and I stopped for a look ... Obviously a fungus of some sort - never seen anything quite like!" Maybe readers can help identify the Unidentified Fungal Object.
Post 9/11 flight like a Stephen King novel
Q: What's the strangest incident that's happened on a commercial airline flight?
A: My wife and I were the only passengers on a big commercial airliner (Continental Airlines). It was the Friday after 9/11, and we were flying out of Houston to Hartford, Connecticut. It was one of the first flights after all the aircraft had been grounded in the US. We had scheduled the flight weeks before to go see our son at Yale. We were shocked, just the crew and us. They kept thanking us, we sat in first class of course, they told we we had a choice of any or all the seats on the plane. They gave us three or four bottles of wine. Before we took off, the pilot, copilot, and maybe four flight attendants sat around talking to us. It was very eerie, and strange with the plane being completely empty.
It felt like we were in a Stephen King novel. (Via Michael L. F. Slavin on quora.com Read more airline stories here.)
