Oil Rig Washes Up on Beach

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I saw a headline in the news this morning about an oil rig that broke free and washed up on a popular beach area. My immediate thought was that we had another environmental catastrophe on our hands in the Gulf of Mexico, something similar to BP oil spill many years ago. We've been having horrific weather the past four days in the Gulf, and storms have been pounding the Florida panhandle and west coast, so my first though was that the storms had caused one of the Gulf oil rigs to break free and drift into shore. However, when I read the news story, it turned out is was an oil rig in Scotland, and thankfully it was one that was being towed out to sea to its final drilling location. Apparently, as it was being towed, it broke free from the ships pulling it, and drifted onto a nearby Scottish beach. It also appears that there wasn't any oil or fuel spills, nor any major damage to the oil rig, so thankfully (as of now) an environmental catastrophe was avoided. Judging from the photos appearing online, it seems the Scots had a good time snapping photos of the wayward oil rig! Have you ever read a headline of something that happened somewhere else and immediately thought it was something that happened right in your neighborhood?