shemp
6th January 2004, 09:23 AM
URGENT GOVERNMENT WARNING: DON'T TOAST MARSHMALLOWS AT VOLCANOES (http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/features/scitech_story.cfm?instanceid=59810)
DON'T toast your marshmallows on the edge of volcanic craters.
That timely warning comes from worried government officials who say American tourists are risking life and limb to toast marshmallows on the slopes of some of the world's most active volcanoes.
Safety officials say three visitors from Kansas were severely burned while performing the traditional campfire ritual atop 10,990-foot Mount Etna in Sicily.
"This is an active volcano and the marshmallows had scarcely turned brown before the toasters were showered with molten lava and red-hot rocks," says a State Department spokesman.
"The two young men and a woman were rushed to a local hospital with third-degree burns."
DON'T toast your marshmallows on the edge of volcanic craters.
That timely warning comes from worried government officials who say American tourists are risking life and limb to toast marshmallows on the slopes of some of the world's most active volcanoes.
Safety officials say three visitors from Kansas were severely burned while performing the traditional campfire ritual atop 10,990-foot Mount Etna in Sicily.
"This is an active volcano and the marshmallows had scarcely turned brown before the toasters were showered with molten lava and red-hot rocks," says a State Department spokesman.
"The two young men and a woman were rushed to a local hospital with third-degree burns."