Snakes, in their sinister side-to-side way, slither through floodwaters, menacing a man held in an underground jail; alligators climb onto a freeway, causing cars to smash into one another; iguanas lounge on coffee tables, turning their yellow-green eyes on the humans around them.
But there is a problem with that theory: Once these tiny bits of dust grow to the size of pebbles or boulders, they are likely to either smash into one another and break apart, or spiral toward their central star where their growth is inhibited.
The collar broke loose and fell, smashing into two other collars placed lower on the crane, and breaking off braces that held the crane in place.
A bus operated by Zambia's postal service that was carrying passengers smashed into two vehicles on Thursday, killing at least 53 people and injuring 22 others in one of the worst traffic crashes in the nation in recent history, officials said.
Fast-flowing floodwaters from the swollen Seti River smashed into two buildings and a number of shacks in Kharapani village, in the shadow of Mount Annapurna, police official Shailesh Thapa told the AFP news agency.
Cars smashed into one another, and some overturned.
It fell with a sharp crash and smashed into three chunks.
I was pushed to the ground and my glasses smashed into three pieces," she said.
The engine ran through several intersections in an industrial section of Maspeth, smashing into three automobiles.
On one occasion, a car involved in a high-speed chase smashed into one of the actors' cars, and everybody had to dive out of the way.
