Manhole cover explosion sends shockwaves through community

Dateline Christopher Columbus and Marin Dr. A manhole cover blew up real good according to horrified onlookers (This is the part where we should explain we're going to take creative license as to just how big this was) and went straight up. So high in fact one witness said it looked like "It went all the way up to the day moon before falling back to earth and hitting the street." Do you realize if someone were standing on it when it went up they'd have been Crispy Critters by now?

Jersey City Fire Director Armando Roman said he was waiting for PSE&G "to assess, if whatever damage there is, internally." Well heavens yes, check that out. If something down there can shoot a manhole cover up as far as the day moon PSE&G might want to look around and see if there are some meth labs or dragons below street level. Maybe it was sabotage by still-angry Rangers fans.

One more of these go and we're going to think it's a conspiracy.

A morning walk through our fair city

Never know what you'll miss if you don't look down once in a while...

Pop goes the manhole (cover)

Dateline Atlantic City: At least five manhole covers have 'exploded' up into the air in what local firefighters are calling electrically charged manhole covers. All five that exploded have had electrical equipment beneath them. Now this sounds like family fun and no doubt the Atlantic City powers-that-be are looking to harness these electric blasts and turn them into ride revenue:

Fire Chief Dennis Brooks tells The Press of Atlantic City he saw a 200-pound cover shoot 10 feet in the air trailed by a yellowish-orange arc of electricity.

Think of the fun you could have standing on that manhole cover and being shot 10 feet in the air. These electrical glitches could now be used for revenue, God Bless America. Branding would help here. Johnny would advise against calling it "Ride the Manhole" and would think "Electric Street" might be a better name.