Weird BUT true
Quite an explosive find. Employees at a waste-disposal company in Stratford, Conn., found an old hand grenade in trash they picked up, officials said.
A State Police bomb squad safely disposed of the grenade after briefly clearing the area, officials said.
It appeared to be of World War I or World War II vintage, police said.
She’s lucky to be married to this guy.
A man in Wellington, Mo., bought lottery tickets for his wife to celebrate their anniversary — and one turned out to be a $100,000 winner, state officials said.
Glen Nadler said they plan to use the money on a Disney World vacation.
Nevada police will be grilling this suspect.
A Placer County sheriff ’s deputy was answering a welfare call near Lake Tahoe when he encountered a man brandishing a barbecue skewer, officials said.
Police say the man lunged at the deputy, who shot him. The man was taken to a Reno hospital and remained in intensive care Sunday.
Hey, when you gotta pee . . . Cops pulled over a party bus in Southern California over the weekend and briefly detained 50 revelers on board after several of them allegedly trashed a CVS because they were denied use of the drugstore’s bathroom.
The potty-seeking partybus passengers stole property before fleeing, witnesses told Seal Beach cops.
British Columbia firefighters are burning mad over motorists who keep driving over fire hoses.
Driving over a hose kills water pressure, and even a momentarily loss of water could be deadly, fire officials said. It has happened three times this month alone in Vancouver.
“If there [are] people in the building, you run over the hose, we lose our water supply,” acting Burnaby Assistant Fire Chief Barry Mawhinney said. “You’re putting people’s lives in danger.”