A TOUGH DAY ON THE JOB

✦ Hundreds of Indian passengers were stuck aboard a train for two hours after the conductor abandoned his post. Turns out he was hot, so he went home to take a cold shower. —indiatoday.in ✦ In 2018, a mysterious power-outage message in Lake Worth, Florida, warned the public of a “zombie alert.” No one is quite sure how the message was sent, but one local official had the dubious task of reassuring the citizenry: “I want to reiterate that Lake Worth does not have any zombie activity currently.” Currently? —palmbeachpost.com ✦ There’s not a whole lot to relieve the boredom when working in Antarctica, so books take on added importance. Too much importance, evidently. A Russian electrical engineer was arrested for assaulting a coworker. The reason behind the attack: His colleague kept ruining the ending of the books he was reading. —vice.com