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A Little Bit of Awesome: 4/5/19 Edition

A woman in Michigan recently hit a huge pothole on her street, and blew a tire. And her 12-year-old son Monte was so annoyed at the city for not fixing it, he filled it himself. When they found out, they finally showed up to fix some of the other ones. But he’s still not satisfied, and doesn’t think they did a very good job. Check out his full story RIGHT HERE.


A high school baseball coach in Utah is on administrative leave, after he tried to dry out a baseball diamond by pouring gasoline on it . . . and lighting it on fire. Now school officials say they have to dig down and test the dirt, to see how much of it’s contaminated and needs to be replaced. Check out more of this moment of genius RIGHT HERE. And this is apparently where coach got this brilliant idea.


There’s now a Bob Ross breakfast cereal. It’s called “The Joy of Cereal,” it looks like a Lucky Charms knock-off, and you can only buy it at the store FYE, so it’s kind of a novelty thing. But still, Bob Ross cereal. You can check it out RIGHT HERE.


 

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