07-10-2024 - On This Day in Insane History

On July 10th, 2024 in the small coastal town of Hilo, Hawaii an unusual event occurred that bemused locals and captured headlines around the world. It was a typical summer morning, the sun had risen bringing warmth to the island paradise. The small beachside community was just starting to wake up. Frank Kalani, who owned the local coffee shop, had just finished grinding the morning's first batch of Kona beans when he heard a strange noise from outside unlike anything he had heard before.

Stepping out onto the lanai, his eyes grew wide at the sight before him. Washing up on the shore in a small inflatable raft was a man dressed in all pink from head to toe. But this was no ordinary beachcomber or lost tourist. As Kalani drew closer he saw that the man appeared dazed and disoriented. In his hands was a tablet emitting cascades of numbers and code scrolling by too fast to read. Around his neck hung what looked to be a homemade translator, a jumble of wires and circuits with microphones attached. But most bizarre of all, on his head sat a VR headset emitting a soft hum and glow.

By this time others from the community had been drawn to the beach by the commotion. As the pink interloper regained coherence, the snippets of translations from his device began to provide clues to his strange arrival. It seemed this man was an engineer from a more advanced time, sent unwittingly through an accidental activation of an unauthorized time travel prototype. Just how or why he ended up on their shore in the early hours of that day remains a mystery. But for the people of Hilo, it was a morning they'd never forget.