That’s the prediction of our faithful Onion correspondent, on the scene of a mountain rescue that has all the ingredients for a “thrilling, made-for-TV movie”:

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With three heads atop a single trunk, it’s a ”botanical curiosity,” an expert says. I bet it’d look great on a $350,000 private island.

A YouTube video of them dancing to Thriller (see below) made them famous. Now the inmates of the provincial prison on the island of Cebu in the Philippines are greeting audiences for a two-hour program on the last Saturday of every month. “Visitors can have their pictures taken with the prisoners,” Reuters reports. “They can also buy souvenir prison shirts.”

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Forget “Grand Theft Auto IV.” Tom Swick imagines a different kind of game starring Swicko Peregrino.

Police in Guangdong are on the case, the BBC reports. Here’s the kicker: “Workers said they thought they were just making colourful flags and did not realise their meaning.”

Photo by -Marlith- via Flickr, (Creative Commons)

New York Times columnist and “The World Is Flat” author Thomas Friedman got a pie in the face as he began delivering a lecture at Brown University, apparently hurled at him by a student protesting, among other things, “his sickeningly cheery applaud (sic) for free market capitalism’s conquest of the planet.” (Via Romensko)

It’s “a major breakthrough in commercial aviation,” says America’s finest news source. 

Just kidding. No we’re not.

My first thought about this cross-country “outreach mission of the Typo Eradication Advancement League”: Brilliant idea. Second thought: “Hunt” might be too strong of a word, since any traveler with an eye for typos knows, they’re in plain sight everywhere. Of course, since project founder, Jeff Deck, and his fellow typo-seeking travelers began their road trip last month, they’ve chronicled hundreds of typos. They’ve also corrected many of them because, as the project manifesto states, “only through working together with vigilance and a love of correctness can we achieve the beauty of a typo-free society.”

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The supermodel was removed from a British Airways flight at Heathrow Airport in London today on suspicion of assaulting a police officer. Judging by the nearly blank stares of my fellow travelers watching news of the incident here at Phoenix Sky Harbor Airport, she might as well be from Mars.

Coffee mugs are selling out. Mayflower mints are going by the case. And “[t]here has been a rush on the Mayflower’s luxuriously soft white terry-cloth bathrobes,” writes Ylan Q. Mui in the Washington Post. The price tag on those robes: $69.99. Ouch. 

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Some celebrities have clothing lines, some dabble in perfume. Why not travel?