Two 16-year-old girls parasailing in Madeira Beach, Fla. nearly floated off over the Gulf of Mexico when the line connecting them to their boat snapped yesterday. The wind was so strong, it took 100 people a half hour to pull Chelsea Waddell and Theresa Blaneford back down to the beach.

“We were on top of a bunch of buildings, over streets and roads, and it was really freaky,” Chelsea told WFTS-TV.

Witness Scott Eagers said, “It was awesome seeing the whole beach react. Everybody didn’t even think, they just ran down, grabbed the rope, and started hauling those girls down.” (lcf)

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It was “The Passion of the Easter Bunny” in Pennsylvania when a church trying to teach kids about Jesus’ crucifixion staged a play with actors whipping the Easter bunny and breaking eggs.

But the lesson at the Glassport Assembly of God near Pittsburgh backfired, with children sobbing as the performer playing the floppy-eared animal was assaulted.

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A Houston court is abuzz with the battle of the vibrators.

At issue is who owns the patent on a small vibrator that attaches to the tongue – with the inventors of “The Tiggler” and “Tongue Joy” both making that claim.

The former requires a pierced tongue, while the latter is attached via elastic loops. Oral arguments began last month.

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Diners at the Formosa Gardens restaurant do a double take when they go to pay the bill – and discover a 2-year-old boy behind the cash register.

Little Gordon Tan “can do the credit-card machine too,” says his mom, Tiffany Lei, who owns the eatery with husband, Jason, in New Iberia, La.

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An obese Florida inmate was discovered hiding his drug stash under a roll of belly flab.

Authorities say Jonathan Wilson, who weighs 350 pounds, initially passed a strip search at Okeechobee County Jail, where he was sent on a narcotics conviction.

But a second search unearthed a cylinder used to carry cigars concealed in the 27-year-old Wilson’s fat and containing 1.9 grams of crack cocaine, authorities said.

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A woman phoned a bomb threat to a German airport to get out of jetting off on a vacation with her boyfriend.

“I didn’t know how I would be able to tell my parents about a holiday with him and I couldn’t really say to him, ‘Listen, my parents wouldn’t approve,'” Marina B., 28, told a Dusseldorf court.

“Then I had the idea a bomb threat would solve all the problems.” (m, s)