Gawking can be hazardous to your health, as 60 people on a Texas barge found out when they rushed to one side to see naked sunbathers, causing the craft to capsize.

Two people were sent to the hospital following the embarrassing mishap on Lake Travis, near Hippie Hollow, the only public nude beach in Texas.

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The spirit of “Animal House” is alive and well at the University of Missouri in Columbia, where mischievous Kappa Alpha frat boys loaded up an antique cannon with fireworks and blew a hole in their roof.

Shrapnel from the explosion then rocketed across the street and smashed through the window of an apartment.

Luckily, there were no injuries.

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It seemed too good to be true when 7-year-old Dylan Goodman dropped a message in a bottle into the ocean at Flagler Beach, Fla., and got a reply a few weeks later from Sybille Lohse in Jork, Germany, 4,637 miles away.

And it was. What the reply didn’t say was that Lohse had found the bottle on Flagler Beach, but didn’t answer Dylan’s note until she returned to Europe.

“In a way, I wish we never knew that,” said Dylan’s mom, Kelly.

“But I guess the mystery is solved. It was kind of bizarre that it would get there that quickly.”

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Now it’s OK to be loaded when you get loaded in Arizona.

The state House of Representatives voted to repeal laws that prohibit people who carry loaded weapons from going into bars.

“I find the best – the best – safety we have out there today in this world are good citizens that are armed,” explained state Rep. Russell Pearce.

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A Wisconsin councilman installed a shapely female mannequin in his office, sparking complaints that it’s sexually offensive.

Greenfield City Alderman Thomas Pietrowski refuses to remove what he calls a piece of art, so Mayor Timothy Seider is threatening to do so himself.

“There’s shock value in it,” Pietrowski insists. “She startles you when you walk in because you don’t expect to see her. So I thought, why not put her in my office?” Bill Hoffmann, Wire Services