Florida country radio morning-show hosts Val St. John and Scott Fish are currently serving indefinite suspensions and possibly worse over a successful April Fools' Day prank. They told their listeners that "dihydrogen monoxide" was coming out of the taps throughout the Fort Myers area. Dihydrogen monoxide is water.

The popular deejays are mainly in all this trouble (potentially of a felony level) because their listeners panicked so much — about the molecular makeup of their drinking water, however unwittingly — that Lee County utility officials had to issue a county-wide statement calming the fears of chemistry challenged Floridians.

What?

A felony? For what? Telling people that what was coming out of their taps was, in fact, di-hydrogen monoxide?

That's what's in your pipes, by the way. That is the chemical name for water -- di (two) hydrogen mono (one) oxide (oxygen, and a compound with oxygen is called an oxide.) H2O.

How can you face a criminal charge for calling something what it in fact is?

If the listeners are too stupid to understand basic chemistry and are "alarmed" that is not the DJs' fault, nor his and her responsibility.

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