On your mark. Get set. Flush!

The NHL’s Pittsburgh Penguins are looking for 250 students who know how to flush toilets.

Construction is almost completed on the team’s new arena, and all toilets must be flushed simultaneously to make sure they work properly.

The Penguins are calling the June 10 event the “Student Flush,” a spinoff of their popular ticketing program known as “Student Rush.”

The Mets didn’t have to set up a similar stunt when they opened Citi Field. It’s already in Flushing.

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An unlikely class of job seekers can claim discrimination. The unemployed.

A Florida-based recruiting company posted a job for a marketing position cautioning, “No unemployed candidates will be considered at all.”

A spokesman for the placement firm said it’s part of a “growing trend,” adding many companies want to hire only people who already have jobs.

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Abandoned babies get dropped off at churches.

But where do you leave an abandoned baby elk?

Someone in La Grande, Ore., found one along a highway and dropped it off on the doorstep of the US Forest Service office.

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The Renault Zoe auto will not be going on sale — if Zoe Renault has anything to say about it.

Zoe, a 23-year-old Parisian, has hired a lawyer to keep the giant automaker from using her first name on its new model.

“I could not bear to hear, ‘Zoe’s broken down,’ or ‘We need to get Zoe overhauled,’ ” she said.

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He’s the Pied Piper in reverse.

An Austrian company that takes movie buffs on “Third Man” tours through the sewers of Vienna has hired a bagpiper to lead the way.

The screeching pipes and the sight of the kilted musician send the rats scurrying for cover.

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