The "super blood wolf moon" celestial show Sunday night was apparently a bit too mesmerizing for some Floridians.
In West Palm Beach, a man and woman who police think were lying on a roadway to watch the lunar eclipse were run over by a patrolling officer, The Palm Beach Post newspaper reported. The officer was driving around a park at about 11:30 p.m. — the height of the eclipse — at about 5 mph when his vehicle drove over the 24-year-olds on a dark, horseshoe-shaped road.
The pair incurred nonlife-threatening injuries, and the officer has been placed on administrative leave, the paper reported.
Meanwhile, in Ponte Vedra Beach, a few moongazers sitting in a car on the beach are OK after their car got swamped by the incoming high tide. The St. Johns County Sheriff's Office told a Jacksonville TV station that the occupants of the vehicle were watching the lunar eclipse and failed to pay attention to the tide coming in.
The car was swamped by the water and had to be towed out, the station reported. No one was hurt.