Carrie looked across the street from the terminal and noticed the entrance to a public park. "Let's go check that out."
The couple crossed the street -- being careful to use the proper crosswalk -- and went into the park. It was like any other park. There was a picnic area, a pond, a
walking path. Just like the parks they had back home. With one exception...
As they walked along the path, they witness several people have accidents that left them in strange predicaments.
One man was reaching down to pet a cat by the path, when the animal suddenly went wild. It slashed at the man with a single swip of it's claws. The man was cut
into four vertical slabs that fell over like cards.
A woman rollerblading down the path suddenly lost control on a downhill slope. Unable to stop, she collided with a low-hanging branch. She ended up wrapped
around it like a retracted window shade.
Another man was trying out hot peppers at a hot dog stand. He popped one in his mouth and began to shake violently. A moment later, a fire formed at his feet
and quickly moved up his body, leaving a man-shape ash sculpture in his place. It crumbled into a pile on the sidewalk.
"I don't know," Carrie commented looking around her. "This place looks kinda dangerous."
But John didn't hear her. He had stopped to watch another couple at a balloon cart. The man was discussing something with the vendor who nodded in agreement.
Taking a string from the cart, he attached it to the woman's belt. Next, he held out the hose of his helium tank. The woman took it into her mouth, as the vendor
opened the valve. John stared in amazement as the woman's body began to inflate. Moments later, she rose up off the ground, her arms and legs expanding with
the rest of her body. The vendor closed the valve and removed the hose.
The man paid him, took the string, and walked off with his woman-shaped balloon.
"Did you see that?" John asked, turning to his wife. Carrie wasn't there. While he had been watching the woman becoming a balloon, she had wandered further
along the path. John spotted her just as she...