


NEWS OF THE WEIRD
Smooth reaction
Andrew Smith was fishing on Pensacola Beach in Florida on May 15 when a frantic girl ran up to him and asked if he could swim, WSVN-TV reported. Her friend was being sucked out by a rip current, but Smith doesn’t swim. Thinking fast, Smith attached a flotation device to his drone and sent it out over the water. “I flew it out and it was a terrible miss,” he said. “I released it too early.” A bystander gave him another flotation device, and this time he was able to deliver it to the girl. EMS and lifeguards told Smith if the girl hadn’t had the floater, she wouldn’t have made it.