Wrong Turn

Three teens heading to the beach in St. Lucie, Fla., took a shortcut through the grounds of the local power plant. But their four-wheel-drive vehicle slid down an embankment, ended up in the nuke plant’s water discharge canal, and was swept away in the water. “It was real warm, like, you know, a hot tub,” Tim Svane, 17, said later. The vehicle ended up plugging a pipe a quarter-mile away, but all three were able to swim to safety. “I took a swimming class last semester in high school, and I was saying, Thank you, thank you, thank you’ to my swimming coach all the way to the edge,” Svane said. (AP) ...See? We told you that your high school lessons can be applied to real life situations.