An Iowa man says an oil company offered him the services of a “$1,200 teenage prostitute” if he agreed to let them run a crude oil pipeline through his land. Crude oil indeed.

On Saturday, an oil pipeline leaked 13,200 gallons of crude oil (the equivalent of one and a half tanker trucks) into the Gulf of Thailand. The oil slick is continuing to spread, blackening the beaches and water of a tourist island in the country's eastern sea.