Early Summer Life: I Was Skunked!

Yesterday, I discovered a side effect of warm weather and early summer life:

Baby skunks.

I had my car parked for a couple of hours, and apparently, an entire family of baby skunks--four in all--were hunkered down napping under my car by the driver's side front tire, sheltering from the rain. I had no idea they were there. I did see a cat and so honked my horn to get the cat away from my car, and then ever so slowly backed away, looking around to make sure there were no small animals. I had a moment of confusion when I spied four little tails attached to four little black and white bodies moving away from my car as I backed out.

Two darted away to the car parked next to mine, and two first raised their tiny little tails as if to spray, and then began chasing my car as though they wanted the safety of being back under it!

I took a photo and then drove away, but noticed a definite smell inside of my car that consisted faintly of skunk and rancid garlic. I rolled down my window and as I drove and the smell began to dissipate but when I got back in my car this morning, the smell was back.

I'm now googling "how to remove skunk smell from the inside of your car." My coworker told me that he learned on the 'Brady Bunch' as a kid that I should use tomato juice, which is probably not the most helpful thing for the interior of a car.

Worst case scenario, I have two more weeks of driving with my window down.

A seemingly mundane news story taking place in West Virginia turned into a wild video captured on live television when news reporter Tori Yorgey was struck by a car.

The video, which has been shared on social media, shows a car entering the frame and hitting Yorgey out of frame. "Oh my god! I just got hit by a car, but I'm okay. I just got hit by a car, but I'm okay, Tim."

"Well, that's a first for you on TV, Tori," anchor Tim Irr responds with a very calm demeanor.

When the woman who struck her asks if she's okay, Yorgey cheerfully responded, "I'm okay -- you know, that's live TV for you -- it's all good." Surprisingly, this actually wasn't the first time she was struck by a car. "I actually got hit by a car in college, too, just like that. I am so glad I'm okay!"

Picking the camera back up, which was mounted on a tripod, Yorgey says into the camera, "It's a one-woman band." She made light of the situation by stating, "You know, it's my last week on the job and I think this would happen. Specifically to me, Tim."

"My whole life just flashed before my eyes," Yorgey said in response to being asked if she was hit down low or up high. "But this is live TV and everything's okay." She then continued her story on the water main break happening behind her. Watch the video below:

Twitter users had split reactions to what happened to Yorgey on live television. See what they had to say below.