Friday, June 24, 2011

StupidiNews: Random Edition!

HARTFORD, Conn. -- Connecticut police say they are looking for the source of a 3 1/2-inch bolt that flew through the windshield of an SUV and killed a Waterbury woman.
Forty-year-old Sara Betancourt was killed Saturday afternoon as she was riding in the right front passenger seat of an SUV going south on Interstate 95 in Greenwich. State police say the bolt may have broken off a dump truck that was traveling in the opposite direction.
Something similar happened here with a buckle off a strapped down load of lumber.  It's awful and scary to feel like you were selected for random termination.


A couple restoring an antique sewing machine made a startling discovery when they looked inside.
The Wayne County Sherriff's Office said Thursday that David and Susan Crooks of West Hill Road were working on the machine when they found what appeared to be a grenade in a drawer. 
It really was a live grenade, too.  My first thought was it was fake and intended to be sewn as part of a crafty project, but nope.  It was a live freaking grenade.  The owners have a vague idea of the history of the sewing machine, but have no idea where this came from.


CHICAGO (AP) — A former prison chaplain has pleaded not guilty to federal charges that he plotted with convicted Chicago mobster Frank Calabrese Sr. to recover a violin reportedly hidden in a hit man's Wisconsin house. 
Apparently, Calabrese thought there was a Stradivarius hidden in the hit man's house. What's surprising to me is that it might have been the most interesting thing in a Chicago hit  man's estate.

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