The first color photograph of red sprite lightning

This is one righteously pissed off birder. Odious and Peculiar heartily approve!

Hat tip: Chas.

What it's like to be swallowed by a hippo

Also, sweet justice: Houston teen who found himself with a slew of severe injuries after the ashes from the cigar he was smoking mixed with the “combustible mixture” in his pocket while he and a friend were going to “blow up turtles.”