Meteor Over Boston Was Actually a 500-Pound Burrito Launched from an MIT Food Fight
BOSTON – In a baffling twist that has astronomers and gastroenterologists equally perplexed, the brilliant fireball that streaked across the Boston skyline earlier this week was not a celestial rock but a 500-pound, extra-hot chili burrito mistakenly loaded into a student rocket. "We were aiming for the moon," said a sheepish MIT engineering senior, "but we forgot to account for the guacamole's density." The "meteor boston" event, which briefly caused a city-wide taco shortage and triggered a dozen calls to 911, ended with the burrito crash-landing in a Fenway Park parking lot, where it was devoured by a stray cat now known as "The Space Kitty." Scientists are calling it the first confirmed case of extraterrestrial (and extra-spicy) debris.