Snarkless: Bomb Squads, Astronauts, and Unlikely Love Stories

Snarkless – Because even we need a break from the madness. Once a day, we swallow our sarcasm (it burns, honestly) and deliver three legitimately good news stories—no cynicism, no side-eye, just pure, unfiltered positivity. It’s weird for us too, but hey, even the apocalypse deserves a little sunshine.

Here are a few more Snarkless stories making the rounds . . .

1.  The Orlando bomb squad did an Easter egg hunt for visually impaired kids.  They built special eggs that made a beeping sound so they could find them.  The event was inspired by a first responder’s daughter who’s visually impaired.

2.  America’s oldest serving astronaut got a pretty good birthday gift this weekend.  Donald Pettit returned home from the Space Station yesterday, which happened to be his 70th birthday.  He’d been up there seven months.

3.  A guy named Mitchell O’Brien got swallowed by sand at a beach on Lake Michigan last weekend, and it turned into an unlikely love story.  He was walking with his best friend, a coworker named Breanne Sika.

The beach swallowed him like quicksand, and he was buried up to his waist.  So they both called 9-1-1.  And at the exact same time, she referred to him as her BOYFRIEND, and he said his GIRLFRIEND was also trying to call.  It turned out they’ve both had a crush on each other for two years.

Firefighters showed up and pulled Mitchell out.  He and Breanne are now officially an item.  They did an interview with NBC News.