The hotel guests at the Edgewater Hotel and Waterpark in Minnesota had to run in their swimming trunks on Thursday after a fake volcano at the center of a swimming pool "erupted" giving out smoke. The 20-foot-tall plastic volcano started emitting black smoke and flames at about 6:40 p. m. because of a malfunctioning of the internal speaker. The flames were put out by firefighters and an automatic sprinkler head mounted above the volcano. However, the entire volcano melted during the "eruption. "

A 19-year-old boy from Anoka, Mississippi got the ride of his life when a huge slab of ice broke off as he stood along the shoreline of the Mississippi river. Amos Benjamin Cohen was spotted by Sue Hillberg, who was sitting at the kitchen table at her mother's Mississippi River-side house in Anoka.

When the world's tallest man, Sun Ming from China, officially joined the American Basketball Association, he was given an XXXXXXL sweat shirt to wear, and it still didn't fit him. ABA is touting 23-year-old Ming as the tallest player in the history of professional basketball, with a height of 7 foot 8 and 3/4 inches (236 cm). Ming wears size 19 shoes and weighs at least 335 pounds. As a new entrant to Maryland Nighthawks, he wore a uniform with the number 79 - symbolic of his giant height.

A mysterious 18-inch ice chunk fell from the sky and crushed the upper portion of a car belonging to a man from Florida. The roof of the Ford Mustang, owned by Andre Ravage, 20, was crushed down to its seats on Sunday. Ravage's neighbor Raymond Rodriguez was changing a tire when the strange chunk fell from the sky. "I was scared," AP quotes Rodriguez as saying who was only a foot away. "It's crazy, man. "

In London's booming real estate market, any price will be fair enough, even if it costs $335,000 for a 77-square foot apartment. According to the real estate agent handling the sale, it is the location of the tiny dilapidated studio suite that has made it so costly. While the apartment, which was probably a former storage room, has all the basic facilities that a five-room home would provide, the only problem lies in the size, whether it is a cabinet, a sink or a shower.